Database Administrator (DBA) - Contract

1 year renewable contract

Responsibilities:

• Design the database’s architecture and modelling strategies to ensure that the database is secure, scalable and performs reliably.  
• Work with the application development team to define the application data model and work on tuning and optimizing database related operation.
• Be point of contact to principal vendors for software and hardware.
• Provide production support and responsible for the resolution of database related issues and duty rotation for after-office-hours support.
• Provide support on to application team on database related matters (e.g. data patching, application deployments, extracting data from database for reporting)
• Plan and strategize data mapping for migration of data from legacy systems to support the deployment of the project, ensuring no data loss during conversion.
• Review data mapping/conversion/integration specs between systems to ensure appropriate mapping quality and adherence to modelling strategies.
• Ensure timeliness and accuracy of data sync during co-existence with legacy systems.
• Develop and maintain database-related codes / scripts such as data sync scripts, data masking scripts, stored procedures etc.
• Ensure database services and servers availability.
• Install and configure Database and associated products.
• Provide operational support including:
• Ensuring database patches are performed in accordance with the patch release cycle.
• Troubleshoot and remediate security vulnerabilities reported by security scan.
• Reviewing and maintaining of database accounts.
• Monitoring and optimising database performance, such as optimising queries, creating indexes etc.
• Capacity planning.
• Configuring backup on database.
• Ensuring database is hardening in accordance with Authority standards.

Requirements:

• Past track records with Oracle/MSSQL/DB2/MySQL/Postgres/Maria/Mongol databases including setting up and managing the environment.
• Experience in setting up and managing databases in a high availability active-active setup will be added advantage.
• Knowledge in PL/SQL scripting will be added advantage.
• Knowledge in working with ETL and data co-existence technology with legacy systems will be added advantage.
• Knowledge with DB audit and security will be added advantage.
• Knowledge with data masking products will be added advantage.