Database Administrator

Job Description

Responsible for keeping an organization’s database environments secure, stable, high-performing, and available for business-critical applications.

Able to lead the design, administration, optimization, and support of enterprise database platforms while working closely with infrastructure, applications, security, and business teams.

Manage, maintain, and support enterprise database systems across production, test, and development environments.

Administer database platforms such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or other relevant technologies.

Monitor database health, performance, storage, availability, and capacity.

Perform database installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, and migration activities.

Troubleshoot and resolve database incidents, outages, and performance issues.

Implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures to protect business data.

Optimize SQL queries, indexing, and overall database performance.

Ensure database security, access control, encryption, and compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.

Support high-availability solutions such as clustering, replication, failover, and standby environments.

Work with application and infrastructure teams to support system integration, deployments, and release activities.

Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and runbooks.

Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior DB administrators and project teams.

Participate in on-call support, incident response, and problem management as required.