Principal DBA

Across Western Province, the company runs 14 branch offices and a central depot for hardware staging and imaging. Large rollouts are routine here, such as imaging 12,000 laptops for a state agency over one summer. Founded in 1998, we now have 290 employees. Lunch is usually whatever is closest to the client site.

Overview:

We are adding a Principal DBA to our Data Platform team. We need someone who checks the backups before anyone asks, and who can explain a query plan to a developer. The Data Platform team supports about 200 production databases. We need someone who can handle both daily operations and longer projects. Remote, open to candidates across Sri Lanka. Few meetings, lots of written updates. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Main duties:

• Manage backups and run regular restore tests against RPO and RTO targets
• Control access with roles, least privilege and audited service accounts
• Monitor databases with SolarWinds DPA, Redgate SQL Monitor or pgwatch and act on alerts
• Automate maintenance with PowerShell, SQL Agent jobs or Bash
• Upgrade major database versions with minimal downtime
• Migrate databases to Amazon RDS, Aurora or Azure SQL

Minimum qualifications:

• 7+ years of hands-on database administration experience
• Familiarity with SAN storage and VMware virtualization basics
• Strong T-SQL, PL/SQL or PL/pgSQL
• Proven query and index tuning ability
• Scripting with PowerShell, Bash or Python
• Deep knowledge of at least one of SQL Server, Oracle or PostgreSQL
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery setups

What we offer:

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

We review applications as they come in.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Wheatear Computer Services (Pvt) Ltd.