Database Administrator

USER EXPERIENCE RESEARCHERS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

USER EXPERIENCE RESEARCHERS PTE. LTD. seeks an experienced Database Consultant to lead full lifecycle management of enterprise databases across on‑prem and cloud (AWS/Azure). You will ensure performance, security, availability, and data integrity while supporting migrations and governance initiatives.

The role covers designing architectures, scripting, DR planning, and delivering technical guidance to stakeholders. Strong cloud experience and masking solutions are required.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience managing enterprise relational database systems in production environments (MS SQL Server, Oracle).
• Experience with AWS/Azure cloud-hosted databases and data masking/scrambling tools.
• Experience implementing security controls, encryption, auditing, and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience automating database administration, monitoring, and deployment tasks.
• Experience supporting cloud migrations and DR plans; strong documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain database servers and instances.
• Monitor performance and ensure high availability and operational excellence.
• Diagnose and resolve incidents, errors, and service disruptions in production databases.
• Manage access controls, user privileges, and data integrity.
• Design databases, write SQL scripts, perform tuning, and optimize workloads.
• Backup, restore, DR, and business continuity planning.
• Handle data queries, cloning, deployments, configuration extraction, and data scrambling.
• Administer data scrambling/masking for non-production environments.
• Support migrations to AWS/Azure cloud environments and manage cloud DB services (RDS, Redshift, Azure SQL).
• Ensure integration between databases and enterprise applications.
• Implement security controls, encryption, auditing, and vulnerability remediation.
• Produce operational docs, SOPs, DR plans, and technical designs; present to stakeholders.
• Stay current with new database technologies and cloud services.

Skills

Database admin

Performance tuning

Cloud DB ops

Data security

Automation scripting

Stakeholder comms

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

AWS RDS

Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Managed Instance

Oracle

MS SQL Server

Job description

The Database Consultant is responsible for the full lifecycle management of enterprise database systems, ensuring optimal performance, security, availability, and reliability across on-premises and cloud environments. The role supports data-driven initiatives, secure data access, data integrity, cloud migration, and data governance activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain database servers and instances.
• Monitor database performance and ensure high availability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Diagnose and resolve database incidents, errors, performance issues, and service disruptions.
• Manage database access controls, user privileges, standards, and data integrity.
• Design database architecture, develop SQL scripts, conduct performance tuning, and optimize workloads.
• Perform database backup, restoration, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity activities.
• Handle service requests covering data queries, database cloning, deployments, configuration extraction, and data scrambling.
• Administer and support data scrambling and masking solutions for non-production environments.
• Support database migration and modernization initiatives from on-premises environments to AWS and Azure cloud environments.
• Manage and support cloud database services such as AWS RDS, AWS Redshift, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and other relevant services.
• Ensure seamless integration and connectivity between databases, applications, and enterprise platforms.
• Implement database security controls, encryption, auditing, vulnerability remediation, and security best practices.
• Support compliance with organizational, regulatory, audit, and security governance requirements.
• Develop and maintain database operational procedures, standards, runbooks, and technical documentation.
• Provide technical consultancy to stakeholders on database technologies, cloud adoption, data security, and data management.
• Stay current with emerging database technologies, cloud services, security practices, and industry standards.

Minimum Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience managing enterprise relational database management systems in production environments, including Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
• Hands-on experience supporting databases hosted in AWS and Azure cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with data masking, data scrambling, or equivalent data obfuscation solutions.
• Practical experience performing database refresh, cloning, and migration activities.
• Hands-on experience implementing or administering database security controls, such as database auditing, encryption, privileged access controls, vulnerability remediation, and security hardening.
• Experience developing and maintaining automation scripts or tools for database administration, monitoring, restoration, deployment, or housekeeping activities.
• Experience supporting high-priority production incidents and preparing root cause analysis (RCA) reports with corrective actions.
• Experience producing operational and technical documentation, such as SOPs, DR plans, architecture documents, runbooks, or technical designs, and conducting stakeholder presentations or technical briefings.
• Hands-on experience supporting or administering a Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) solution.
• Experience participating in cloud migration projects involving AWS, Azure, or hybrid database architectures.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Core Competencies

• Database administration and performance optimization
• Cloud database operations across AWS and Azure
• Data security, masking, and scrambling
• Database migration and modernization
• Technical documentation and stakeholder engagement
• Database monitoring, automation, and operational support