Database Manager

Job Title: Database Manager

Location: Remote (Australia)

Salary: $163,000-$183,000 per year

Hours: 40 hours per week

Contract: Full-time, permanent

We support about 60 local businesses, most within 30 minutes of the office. Every tech does a bit of everything, from printer jams to firewall rules.

Job summary

Thatcher is looking for another Database Manager to keep our SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases backed up, patched, fast and secure. The operations team supports about 200 production databases. We need someone who can handle both daily operations and longer projects. This role is fully remote within Australia. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

In this role you will

• Control access with roles, least privilege and audited service accounts.
• Manage backups and run regular restore tests against RPO and RTO targets.
• Monitor databases with SolarWinds DPA, Redgate SQL Monitor or pgwatch and act on alerts.
• Support audits with evidence for encryption, access reviews and backup retention.
• Migrate databases to Amazon RDS, Aurora or Azure SQL.

Skills and experience

• 7+ years of hands-on database administration experience.
• Familiarity with SAN storage and VMware virtualization basics.
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery setups.
• Proven query and index tuning ability.

Perks and benefits

• Superannuation on top of salary.
• Paid parental leave.
• Flexible hours.

Applications close when we find the right person, so get in early.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Thatcher Pty Ltd.