About this Database Administrator (AWS) - #35310 role at Manila Recruitment
As a Database Administrator, you will be responsible for managing, maintaining, and improving IBM Db2 database environments running primarily in AWS, with a focus on performance, availability, capacity, and reliability. You will work as part of a geographically distributed technology team and collaborate closely with Platform Architects, Infrastructure, Development, and Operations teams.
Duties and Responsibilities:
· Manage and maintain database environments hosted in AWS, including databases running within EC2 HADR environments
· Monitor and optimize database performance, availability, capacity, and overall reliability
· Support IBM Db2 environments and contribute to database-related projects, upgrades, and improvements
· Support PostgreSQL environments where applicable
· Manage and troubleshoot high-availability database clusters, including multi-node environments
· Support disaster recovery (DR), backup and recovery, and database resilience activities
· Investigate and resolve database-related L2/L3 incidents, including performance issues, cluster issues, system jobs, and other production incidents
· Participate in the investigation and resolution of P1/P2 incidents, including after-hours incidents when required
· Monitor database and infrastructure environments using relevant observability and monitoring tools
· Support database migrations, upgrades, configuration changes, and other technical projects
· Perform capacity management and identify potential performance, storage, or resource constraints before they affect production systems
· Work within established incident and change management processes, ensuring issues and changes are properly investigated, documented, and resolved
· Collaborate with Platform Architects and other technical teams on platform governance, automation, and database best practices
· Contribute to automation and improvements that make database operations more efficient, reliable, and repeatable
· Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, responding to production incidents and support requests within the expected response time
· Work effectively with geographically distributed teams and communicate clearly with colleagues across different regions
Requirements
· Solid hands-on experience as a Database Administrator or in a closely related database infrastructure role
· At least 3 years of hands-on AWS experience supporting mission-critical production database environments
· Strong experience with PostgreSQL or another relevant enterprise relational database
· Strong experience of database maintenance including performance, high availability, backup/recovery, disaster recovery, and capacity management
· Experience troubleshooting production database issues, including performance problems, cluster issues, system jobs, and availability-related incidents.
· Experience working with Linux/operating systems in a database or infrastructure environment
· Experience working with incident and change management processes, particularly in a production or mission-critical environment
· Ability to independently investigate technical issues and demonstrate clear ownership of database-related problems
· Experience working with cloud infrastructure, database tooling, monitoring, or observability platforms
· Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with geographically distributed technical teams
· Willingness and ability to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, including responding to critical incidents outside regular working hours
Advantageous or Nice to haves:
· Hands-on experience with IBM DB2, particularly DB2 on AWS/EC2
· Strong PostgreSQL experience
· Experience with high-availability clusters, disaster recovery, and backup/recovery
· Experience with Bash/shell/Python scripting and automation
· Familiarity with Bitbucket, JIRA, and observability/monitoring tools
· Experience supporting cloud migrations, upgrades, and mission-critical systems
· IBM DB2 certification is an advantage