Database Administrator

Database Administrator

We are looking for an experienced Database Administrator to join our client's team in Lahore . The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in database management, performance optimization, security, backup and recovery, and high-availability solutions.

📍 Location: Lahore, Pakistan

🏢 Work Mode: On-site (In-person)

🕒 Working Hours: 7:00 PM – 3:00 AM (US Time Zone Coverage)

💼 Experience: Minimum 5 Years

🎓 Qualification: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, or a Related Field

Duties & Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain relational database management systems across development, testing, and production environments.
• Monitor database availability, capacity, performance, and resource utilization, proactively resolving bottlenecks and service degradation.
• Design, implement, and test backup, restore, disaster recovery, and high-availability procedures to meet business continuity requirements.
• Administer database users, roles, permissions, authentication, and auditing in accordance with security policies and least-privilege principles.
• Optimize SQL queries, indexes, execution plans, memory allocation, and storage to improve application and database performance.
• Support database design, data modeling, schema changes, migrations, integrations, and release deployments.
• Troubleshoot database incidents, perform root-cause analysis, document resolutions, and implement preventive measures.
• Maintain database standards, operating procedures, configuration records, inventories, and technical documentation.
• Work with developers, system administrators, cloud engineers, security teams, and vendors to deliver reliable database services.
• Apply data protection, encryption, retention, compliance, and vulnerability-remediation requirements.
• Automate routine administration, monitoring, maintenance, and reporting tasks using appropriate scripting and tooling.
• Participate in on-call support, maintenance windows, audits, capacity planning, and continuous service improvement activities.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, information systems, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in database administration, engineering, or operations.
• Hands-on experience administering one or more enterprise database platforms such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
• Strong knowledge of SQL, database architecture, indexing, query optimization, transaction management, and performance tuning.
• Demonstrated experience with backup and recovery, replication, clustering, high availability, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Experience securing databases through access controls, auditing, encryption, patching, and vulnerability management.
• Familiarity with cloud database services and infrastructure, preferably AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Working knowledge of Linux or Windows Server administration and scripting with PowerShell, Python, Bash, or equivalent tools.
• Experience supporting database changes through development, testing, release, and incident-management processes.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and participate in after-hours support when required.
• Relevant vendor or cloud database certification is considered an asset.

Interested candidates can also apply with their updated CV at [email protected] with the subject line "Database Administrator".