Senior DBA

About the job

Noraa & Co. is partnering with one of the top public companies in Indonesia to build a strong engineering organization as the backbone of the company's future growth.

Our client is entering a major technology transformation phase, where engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, database reliability, DevOps, and IT operations will play a critical role in supporting large-scale business operations across Indonesia.

We are currently hiring for several strategic and senior technical positions.

Position Overview

As a Senior Database Administrator, you will be responsible for database reliability, performance, availability, backup, recovery, and security. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone with strong hands-on database expertise in critical production environments.

Responsibilities

• Database Operations
• Manage, monitor, and maintain production databases.
• Ensure database availability, performance, backup, recovery, and security.
• Performance Optimization
• Perform query tuning, indexing, schema review, and capacity planning.
• Identify and resolve database performance bottlenecks.
• Reliability & Recovery
• Manage replication, clustering, backup, restore, and disaster recovery processes.
• Improve database resilience and operational readiness.
• Engineering Support
• Work closely with engineering teams on database design, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Support migration, upgrade, and modernization initiatives.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience as a DBA or database engineer.
• Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, or similar relational databases.
• Experience with performance tuning, backup and recovery, replication, clustering, and high availability.
• Experience managing large-scale transactional databases is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with cloud database services is a plus.