Regional Database Administrator (DBA)

Position Responsibilities

Database Operations & Administration

• Manage and maintain production databases across multiple regions
• Perform installation, configuration, patching, and upgrades of database systems
• Monitor database health, performance, and availability
• Manage database backups and recovery procedure

High Availability & Disaster Recovery

• Design and maintain high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions
• Implement replication strategies across regions
• Ensure data integrity and minimal downtime
• Regularly test backup restoration and DR failover procedures

Performance Optimization

• Monitor database performance and resolve bottlenecks
• Optimize queries, indexes, and database configurations
• Work with developers to improve database schema design and query efffficiency
• Implement caching or scaling strategies when necessary

Cloud Database Management

• Manage databases deployed on cloud infrastructure
• Support cloud database services such as: Amazon RDS / Aurora, Self-hosted databases on cloud infrastructure
• Optimize cloud database usage for perfoformance and cost efffficiency

Security & Compliance

• Implement database access control policies
• Manage encryption, credentials, and database security practices
• Ensure compliance with data protection and governance policies
• Perform security audits and vulnerability assessments

Monitoring & Automation

• Implement monitoring tools for proactive issue detection
• Build automation scripts for routine database operations
• Improve operational efficiency through Infrastructure as Code and automation

Cross-Regional Coordination

• Support regional teams with database deployment and operations
• Ensure consistent database standards across regions
• Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and data engineering teams

Requirements

Qualification and Experience

Experience

• 4+ years experience as a Database Administrator in production environments
• Experience managing high availability databases
• Experience supporting mission-critical applications

Database Technologies

Strong experience with one or more of:

• MySQL / MariaDB
• PostgreSQL
• Microsoft ft SQL Server
• MongoDB (optional but beneficial)

Cloud Platforms

Experience with:

• AWS (RDS, Aurora, EC2-hosted databases)
• Cloud infrastructure management
• Backup and DR solutions in cloud environments

Technical Skills

• Database performance tuning
• Query optimization
• Replication and clustering
• Backup and recovery strategies
• Database monitoring tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing multi-region database clusters
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with database sharding or partitioning
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (TeTerrafoform / CloudFormation)
• Experience with containerized database environments

Skills

Database Administration, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Servers, Cloud Infrastructure