Database Administrator (Remote)

November 8, 2025

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line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, ">A fast-growing US-based SaaS company is transforming how energy firms manage operations. Their end-to-end ERP platform streamlines field data, production, finance, land, and compliance, delivering real-time insights and operational efficiency. With a strong client base and innovative tech, they’re redefining digital transformation in the energy and utilities sector.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "><span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero);">Role & Responsibilities:<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "> <ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding-left: 18px; border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight);">Lead Database administration and optimise relational databases (e.g., SQL Server).</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight);">Support ERP database migrations, upgrades, and performance tuning.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight);">Conduct database performance tuning, indexing, and query optimisation for relational and analytical workloads.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight);">Analyze and recommend performance optimization strategies for single and multi-tenant database environments.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight);">Assess and recommend VM and disk configurations in cloud platforms like Azure and AWS for optimal performance.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight);">Help DevOps team automate routine database tasks for cloud-hosted and on-premises databases.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight);">Set up and maintain database replication strategies, including transactional replication for real-time updates and scaling. Ensure data availability, consistency, and integrity across ERP systems and analytics platforms.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "><span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero);">Requirements & Qualifications:<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "> <ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding-left: 18px; border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight);">8+ years of strong experience in DB engineering, administration and production operations on cloud, specifically MS SQL.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight);">Hands-on experience with cloud database solutions and infrastructure in Azure and AWS, including optimising VM and disk configurations for cost and performance.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight);">Database performance tuning and optimisation.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight);">Expertise in high-availability (HA) clusters, read replica management, and transactional replication.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight);">Proficiency in SQL and one or more programming languages, such as Python/Bash.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight);">Knowledge of data modelling, data quality, data security, and data governance principles and practices.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight);">Familiarity with database monitoring and database DevOps tools (Datadog, Grafana, Azure Monitor).</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 16px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: 0px; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-size: ; background-repeat: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight);">Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.</li></ul>

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