Principal DBA

Large rollouts are routine here, such as imaging 12,000 laptops for a state agency over one summer. Our field services team covers retail chains, hospitals and banks, dispatching technicians to over 4,000 sites.

About the role:

Colombo Technology Group is looking for a Principal DBA to join a small, steady team. DBA role covering on-premises and cloud databases, including a planned move to Amazon RDS. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Sri Lanka. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

Job duties:

• Set up and maintain Always On availability groups, Data Guard or streaming replication.
• Document configurations, runbooks and disaster recovery procedures.
• Upgrade major database versions with minimal downtime.
• Migrate databases to Amazon RDS, Aurora or Azure SQL.
• Control access with roles, least privilege and audited service accounts.
• Monitor databases with SolarWinds DPA, Redgate SQL Monitor or pgwatch and act on alerts.
• Plan capacity for storage, memory and CPU growth.
• Tune queries, indexes and statistics using execution plans and Query Store.

Minimum qualifications:

• 7+ years of hands-on database administration experience.
• Scripting with PowerShell, Bash or Python.
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery setups.
• Willingness to work occasional nights and weekends for maintenance windows.
• Proven query and index tuning ability.

Preferred qualifications:

• Microsoft DP-300 or Oracle OCP certification.
• Database DevOps with Flyway, Liquibase or Redgate tools.
• MongoDB or Redis.
• AWS RDS, Aurora or Azure SQL Managed Instance.

Rate: LKR 270,000-LKR 330,000 per month

What you get:

• Medical insurance for you and your family.
• Company laptop.
• Flexible hours.
• Learning budget.
• EPF and ETF contributions.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Colombo Technology Group.