Data Administrator

About the role

We are seeking a detail-oriented Database Administrator (DBA) Engineer with at least 2 years of hands-on experience managing, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise relational database environments. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the high availability, security, integrity, and performance of our multi-database ecosystem, specifically Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and IBM DB2.

Key responsibilities

• Install, configure, patch, and upgrade database instances across MS SQL Server, MySQL, and IBM DB2 environments.
• Perform routine database maintenance tasks including index defragmentation, statistic updates, database consistency checks (DBCC), and log truncation.
• Monitor database health, uptime, disk usage, memory utilization, and throughput to ensure service level agreement (SLA) compliance.
• Implement, maintain, and test database backup, recovery, and point-in-time restore procedures.
• Analyze complex SQL queries, execution plans, and deadlocks; partner with software engineers to refactor inefficient code.
• Design and optimize indexes (clustered, non-clustered, spatial/composite) and partitioning strategies to maintain high data throughput.
• Perform database capacity planning and resource allocation to accommodate growth and workload scaling.
• Administer high-availability and disaster-recovery topologies (e.g., MS SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups / Clustering, MySQL Replication / InnoDB Cluster, DB2 HADR).
• Enforce database security controls, database user access permissions, and role-based access control (RBAC) following least-privilege principles.
• Serve as an escalation point for database performance degradation, outages, or data corruption issues.

About you

• Minimum of Diploma / Advanced Diploma or equivalent in Computer Science / Information Technology
• At least 2 years of related working experience
• Strong hands-on experience with more than one database platform (e.g., SQL, MSSQL, DB2, MariaDB)
• Solid understanding of system/platform administration
• Experience with middleware clustering technologies
• Proven expertise in performance tuning and issue resolution
• Strong knowledge of backup, recovery, and DR processes
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Good communication skills in English and Malay language for both spoken and written
• Good technical documentation skills