DBA

Certifications include ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, and we hold partner status with Microsoft, Cisco and VMware. Founded in 2023, we now have 370 employees.

Job summary:

This hire will own performance tuning, high availability and restore testing for our core business systems. DBA role covering on-premises and cloud databases, including a planned move to Amazon RDS. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Pakistan. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

Duties:

• Review and deploy schema changes from development teams
• Monitor databases with SolarWinds DPA, Redgate SQL Monitor or pgwatch and act on alerts
• Upgrade major database versions with minimal downtime
• Respond to after-hours database incidents on a rotating schedule
• Automate maintenance with PowerShell, SQL Agent jobs or Bash
• Control access with roles, least privilege and audited service accounts
• Plan capacity for storage, memory and CPU growth

Required qualifications:

• 2+ years of hands-on database administration experience
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery setups
• Willingness to work occasional nights and weekends for maintenance windows
• Familiarity with SAN storage and VMware virtualization basics
• Scripting with PowerShell, Bash or Python
• Deep knowledge of at least one of SQL Server, Oracle or PostgreSQL

Preferred:

• Microsoft DP-300 or Oracle OCP certification
• Terraform for database infrastructure
• MongoDB or Redis
• Database DevOps with Flyway, Liquibase or Redgate tools

Salary range: PKR 150,000-PKR 195,000 pcm

Pay and benefits:

• Medical insurance
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Two bonuses a year
• Life insurance
• Fuel allowance

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

We may close this posting early once we have enough applications.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Sweetgum Computer Services.