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Database Administrator (DBA)

Melbourne Matrix Solutions
Wollongong NSW

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Job Details

Permanent | Full-time
$9,167.24 - $12,231.10 a month
10 days ago

Benefits

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Salary packaging

Qualifications

CI/CD
Authentication
Performance tuning
Data modelling
Azure
Oracle
Computer Science
Cassandra
Ansible
AWS Certification
Disaster recovery
Microsoft SQL Server
NoSQL
MongoDB
Databases
SQL
Database administration
AWS
PostgreSQL
Terrafrom
Scripting
Security
DynamoDB
RDS database
Communication skills
MySQL
MariaDB

Full Job Description

Database Administrator (DBA) — Job Description

Summary

Responsible for installation, configuration, maintenance, performance, security, backup/recovery, and availability of database systems to support applications and business operations.

Key responsibilities

Installation & configuration: Install and configure database software (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB), patches, and upgrades.
Database design & implementation: Collaborate with architects and developers on schema design, normalization, indexing strategies, partitioning, and data modeling.
Performance tuning: Monitor and tune database performance (queries, indexing, caching, resource allocation); analyze execution plans and optimize SQL.
Capacity planning: Forecast growth, manage storage, configure tablespaces/volumes, and plan hardware/cluster scaling.
Backup & recovery: Design and test backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures; maintain RTO/RPO targets.
High availability & replication: Implement and manage clustering, replication, mirroring, failover, and load-balancing solutions.
Security & compliance: Manage user access, roles, authentication, encryption, auditing, and data masking; ensure compliance with standards/regulations.
Maintenance & housekeeping: Schedule and perform maintenance tasks (statistics, reindexing, purging, patching), automate routine jobs, and manage maintenance windows.
Monitoring & alerting: Set up monitoring, alerts, and dashboards for health, latency, errors, and resource usage; respond to incidents and troubleshoot outages.
Data migration & ETL support: Plan and execute migrations, upgrades, data loads, and support ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines.
Backup documentation & runbooks: Maintain documentation, runbooks, change logs, and standard operating procedures.
Capacity & cost optimization: Optimize licensing, cloud resource usage, and storage to control costs.
Collaboration & support: Work with developers, ops, security, and product teams to support deployments, schema changes, and performance issues; participate in on-call rotations.
Automation & scripting: Create scripts and automation for provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, and deployments (e.g., Bash, PowerShell, Python, SQL).
Testing & QA: Support staging/test environments, perform failover/recovery drills, and validate backups and restores.

Qualifications & skills

Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
Typically 3–7 years DBA experience (adjustable by seniority).
Strong experience with one or more RDBMS and/or NoSQL systems (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.).
Proficiency in SQL, performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization.
Experience with backup/recovery tools (RMAN, pg_basebackup, mysqldump, Persona XtraBackup), HA solutions, and clustering.
Familiarity with cloud databases and managed services (AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL, Google Cloud SQL, DynamoDB).
Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch), and APM integration.
Scripting/automation skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform).
Knowledge of security best practices, access controls, encryption, and compliance (SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA where applicable).
Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Experience with CI/CD, database change management, and schema migration tools (Flyway, Liquibase) preferred.
Certifications desirable: Oracle Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate, AWS Database Specialty, or relevant vendor certs.

Pay: $9,167.24 – $12,231.10 per month

Benefits:

Dental insurance
Health insurance
Salary packaging

Work Location: On the road

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