Database Administrator

Responsibilities

A Database Administrator (DBA) manages, secures, and optimizes an organization's database systems to ensure they run safely, efficiently, and without interruption.

Core Responsibilities

• Installation and Maintenance: Install, configure, update, and patch database software and server hardware.

• Backup and Recovery: Design and test disaster recovery plans, scheduled backups, and data restoration procedures.

• Security and Access Control: Manage user permissions, enforce role-based access control, set up encryption, and review audit logs.

• Performance Monitoring and Tuning: Track response times, analyze slow queries, add indexes, and optimize system settings.

• Capacity Planning: Forecast future storage and hardware needs as data volume grows.

• Troubleshooting: Diagnose and fix operational errors, failed connections, and hardware or software glitches.

Required skills:

1. At least 3 years experience with db at enterprise level.
2. Minimum qualifications at least a degree.
3. Certs in db is prefer but not necessarily. Most important experience.
4. Well versed with oracle, MySQL, MSSQL, postgresql, etc.
5. Able to work independently.