Senior Database Administrator

Who we are:

No call centre and no offshore help desk. When clients call, one of us picks up. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

The role:

Padma Computer Services is looking for a Senior Database Administrator to join a small, steady team. The operations team supports about 200 production databases. We need someone who can handle both daily operations and longer projects. Remote within Bangladesh. The team meets in Dhaka once a quarter, travel covered. Few meetings, lots of written updates. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

What you'll work on:

• Monitor databases with SolarWinds DPA, Redgate SQL Monitor or pgwatch and act on alerts
• Tune queries, indexes and statistics using execution plans and Query Store
• Control access with roles, least privilege and audited service accounts
• Automate maintenance with PowerShell, SQL Agent jobs or Bash
• Set up and maintain Always On availability groups, Data Guard or streaming replication
• Plan capacity for storage, memory and CPU growth
• Migrate databases to Amazon RDS, Aurora or Azure SQL

About you:

• 6+ years of hands-on database administration experience
• Scripting with PowerShell, Bash or Python
• Proven query and index tuning ability

Also helpful:

• MongoDB or Redis
• Terraform for database infrastructure
• Database DevOps with Flyway, Liquibase or Redgate tools

Why work with us:

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

Start: Immediately.

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