Senior DBA

About Saddleloop

Clients rely on us for laptop setup, Intune enrolment, backup monitoring and after-hours help when something breaks. Our technicians handle onsite and remote support for medical offices, accounting firms and manufacturers on fixed monthly contracts. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

The role

The previous person in this role moved to another team. The IT Operations team supports about 200 production databases. We need someone who can handle both daily operations and longer projects. DBA role covering on-premises and cloud databases, including a planned move to Amazon RDS. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Pakistan, with a local contract and salary paid in Pakistani rupees. Working hours follow Gulf time, Monday to Friday. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

What you'll do

• Automate maintenance with PowerShell, SQL Agent jobs or Bash.
• Tune queries, indexes and statistics using execution plans and Query Store.
• Control access with roles, least privilege and audited service accounts.
• Document configurations, runbooks and disaster recovery procedures.
• Review and deploy schema changes from development teams.
• Monitor databases with SolarWinds DPA, Redgate SQL Monitor or pgwatch and act on alerts.
• Respond to after-hours database incidents on a rotating schedule.

What we're looking for

• 7+ years of hands-on database administration experience.
• Willingness to work occasional nights and weekends for maintenance windows.
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery setups.
• Deep knowledge of at least one of SQL Server, Oracle or PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with SAN storage and VMware virtualization basics.
• Understanding of Windows Server and Linux as database hosts.

Bonus points

• Microsoft DP-300 or Oracle OCP certification.
• Database DevOps with Flyway, Liquibase or Redgate tools.
• MongoDB or Redis.

Pay and benefits

PKR 460,000 - PKR 600,000 pcm

• Home office setup budget.
• Company laptop.
• Wellness allowance.
• Annual learning budget.

Start: Flexible.

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