17 Database Administrator Dba jobs in the Philippines

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Qualifications
Must Have:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or any related course. < r>
- Minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience in Oracle Database Administration. (Non-negotiable)

- Minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience in MSSQL Database Administration. (Non-negotiable)

- Effective troubleshooting skills to diagnose and resolve database-related issues.





Good to Have:

- Familiarity with database virtualization and containerization technologies.

- Knowledge of data warehousing and big data technologies.

- Ability to work with other database systems (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) beyond the "Must Have" options.

- Proficiency in using database monitoring and management tools (e.g., Oracle Enterprise Manager, SQL Server Management Studio, third-party monitoring tools).

- Knowledge of data warehousing concepts, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, and data analytics.

Job Description
Install, administer, and maintain complex databases and related infrastructure components, ensuring uptime, performance, and security meet service level agreements.

Provide technical support for data center operations, application management, and risk management, assisting in database considerations for application optimization.

Research and apply industry best practices, ensuring the database infrastructure remains cost-effective and up to date.

Communicate with database vendors to handle product updates, fixes, and support requirements.

Perform regular database housekeeping, including system backups, vendor maintenance, and documentation updates.

Conduct capacity management by collecting statistics and forecasting growth, and ensure resource allocation when needed.

Recommend improvements based on performance reviews to correct inefficiencies and optimize performance.

Implement configuration management, change management, and security patch management.

Lead troubleshooting efforts, including root cause analysis and recommending permanent solutions.

_The_ **_Database Administrator_** _will be part of the Group Functions Global Actuarial IT Support and will be responsible for providing service and support to the Actuarial Business, Systems, Platforms and Databases. We are looking for someone with strong analytical skills and solid operational & vendor management experience to support the IT needs and requirements, non-production and production fixes of the application. The candidate must have strong interpersonal skills, working with stakeholders and support teams across the globe._
_Have the skills and experience for the job? Learn more about it below!_
**Position Responsibilities:**
+ Perform database tuning and performance monitoring
+ Perform SQL Server installation, upgrade, patches and troubleshooting
+ Develop maintenance plan for SQL Servers and Application Servers
+ Take immediate actions when database and applications performance issues arise
+ Execute database and application implementations/deployments
+ Perform periodic backups and perform restore procedures if needed or requested
+ Administration of third-party applications
+ Maintain documentation procedure and standards
+ Attend to team, client and vendors meetings to discuss plans, growth, changes and issues.
+ Respond to Level 1 and Level 3 Support team concerns / questions
+ Identify areas of improvement and collaborate with interested parties to drive change with a focus on efficiency and risk management
**Required Qualifications:**
+ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or any related course
+ 2 to 3 years' experience on IAAS and PAAS databases; SQL Server Databases
+ Understanding of Relational Database Management System Concept
+ Intermediate skills in one of the following SQL Scripting, Powershell Scripting, MS SQL, Azure, FTP/SFTP, SSIS, DTA and SQL profiler
+ Administration and Database Management background
+ Experience in Disaster Recovery Planning & High Availability Setup
+ SQL Server / Database Troubleshooting Skills
+ Knowledge and application of change & release management, ITIL4 & project management
+ Relevant experience working in DevOps organizations or idea about DevOps
+ Understanding of software development lifecycle
+ Understanding of how technology supports Manulife business strategy
+ **_Amenable to work in UP Ayala Technohub (Quezon City)_**
+ **_Amenable to work on a hybrid set-up (3x a week onsite)_**
+ **_Amenable to work in any shift schedule assigned (rotating shift; but flexible depending on business need)_**
**Preferred Qualifications:**
+ Collaborative attitude, willingness to work with team members
+ Constantly learns from both success and failure
+ Good verbal and written communication; able to effectively articulate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes
+ Good organizational, multi-tasking and time management skills
+ Strong drive to ensure you meet defined service targets and Service Level Agreements
+ Ability to maintain the highest level of ethical conduct in safeguarding sensitive, confidential, financial, HR company information
+ Ability to work independently and as part of a team
**When you join our team:**
+ We'll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
+ We'll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
+ As part of our global team, we'll support you in shaping the future you want to see.
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Job description

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Collaborates in the planning, designing, and development of the database.
- Ensures performance, availability, and implementation of security measures of the database.
- Prepares necessary documentation such as technical manuals, data flow diagrams, FAQs, and disaster recovery plans.
- Create and manages a database for reports, visualizations, and dashboards.
- Handles the storage structure of the database system, predicts the future storage requirements, and formulate the storage plan of the database.
- Testing and modifying databases to ensure that they operate reliably.
- Providing user training, support and feedback.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot database errors.
- Liaising with developers, technical staffs and stakeholders.

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Quezon City: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**JOB RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Formulate action plan and solutions for ‘databases’ maintenance.
- Formulate action plan and solutions for ‘databases’ server maintenance.
- Formulate action plan and solutions for ‘databases’ functions development.
- Formulate action plan and solutions for ‘databases’ troubleshooting on incidents and problems.
- Contribute completed technical documents.
- Ensure team members performance and outcome meet a defined schedule and quality.
- Ensure end-to-end service quality can meet the defined OLA/SLA.
- Analysis requirements and define developing items.
- Control developing progress to meet OLA/SLA or goal of the project.
- Enhance team’s performance and technological level.
- Ensure the team can process incidents and problems within OLA/SLA.
- Provide Support 24/7 through shifting schedule or on call as business need and determined by management

**JOB QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Have 7 years actual developing experience with 1 of programming languages as follows:

- 1. Java spring
- 2. PHP lumen/Laravel
- 3. Python
- 4. Perl
- Have 5 years actual developing experience with 1 of databases as follows:

- 1. MySQL
- 2. PostgreSQL
- 3. Oracle
- Have 3 years actual experience with Redis or MongoDB.
- Have 3 years actual experience with RDS on cloud service:

- 1. Aliyun
- 2. AWS
- 3. GCP
- Have 7 years actual operational experience with database service maintenance.
- Have 7 years of actual development experience with Java Restful API development.
- Have 5 years experience in analysing data flow.
- Have independent thinking.
- Have problem analysis and resolution capabilities for troubleshooting and debugging.

**Salary**: Up to Php120,000.00 per month

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Makati City: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

Ceridian is a global leader in Human Capital Management technology. Simply put, we allow our customers to do the most complex things well (HR, Payroll, Benefits Administration, Workforce Management and Talent Management) and do them to scale.

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**Location**: Work is what you do, not where you go. For this role, we are open to remote work and can hire anywhere in the Philippines

About the opportunity

What you'll get to do
- Provide administration and support for mission critical and pre-production database environments
- Provide 24x7 on-call administration and support
- Work with client support, developers and IT personnel to resolve daytime and after-hours support issues in a timely manner and as required by service level agreements
- Perform and manage daily database maintenance, monitoring and performance tuning tasks/jobs
- Responsible for database disaster recovery of all database environments which includes managing and supporting SQL backup policies
- Identify and document performance and scaling improvements to R&D
- Manage storage environments for SQL data, logs and backups including optimization, monitoring space and providing growth statistics
- Assist in the design and implementation of security, auditing and integrity controls
- Actively discuss, review, and recommend technical options and activities with the team
- Actively make recommendations and resolve technical system issues to improve SQL stability
- Benchmark, analyze, report on, and make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the SQL transactional replication infrastructure and SQL systems
- Good T-SQL, SQL Profiler and PowerShell skills
- Assist with the maintenance of test, development and staging database environments

What's in it for you
- Encouragement to be the best version of yourself at and away from work:

- YOUnity diversity and inclusion programs
- Amazing time away from work programs
- Support for your total well-being through our Live Well, Work Well programs targeting all aspects of your life
- Recognition for your contributions through excellent pay, perks, and rewards
- Giving where you’re living: volunteer days, Ceridian sponsored events, and our very own charity, Ceridian Cares
- Opportunities to fuel your career growth through numerous internal and external programs and events

Skills and Experience we value
- At least 3+ years of recent experience maintaining and administrating mission-critical database environments
- Experience in large enterprise production environments with high transaction volume
- Experience in SQL Server 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2019
- Experience to automate working processes to improve efficiency
- Experience with database triaging, tuning and monitoring
- Familiarity with Standard Change Control Procedures
- Understanding of database hardware design and disk subsystems
- Understanding of programming with C# in Microsoft Visual Studio environment
- Prefer experience with MS SQL Azure, Cosmos DB, Data Lake, Data Factory, Power BI, etc.
- Prefer experience with Virtualization technologies in a database environment
- SQL Server Certification
- Expert in troubleshooting, problem solving and initiative;
- Excellent planning, time management, documentation skills;
- Expert in T-SQL, SQL Profiler and PowerShell skills
- Easily adapts to changing priorities;
- Effective communication with team members;
- Works well individually and within at team;
- Ability to conduct research into database issues and products and present ideas in a business-appropriate and user-friendly language.

At least 2 Year(s) of working experience in the related field is required for this position.
- Preferably 1-4 Yrs Experienced Employee specialized in IT/Computer - Network/System/Database Admin or equivalent.
- Monday to Friday 8am-5pm Shift.

The Database Administrator ensures that IT-related administrative infrastructure and systems are functioning properly, efficiently, and securely with mínimal downtime; that end-users receive the appropriate levels of rights and privileges to system resources required for them to carry out their work effectively and efficiently.
- Set up database server from end to end Database design (storage capacity, security, SQL requirements, access);
- Ensure database integrity;
- Monitor database server health;
- Conduct database server backup for disaster recovery;
- Data archiving and recovery;
- Check data integrity and validity;
- Assist developers in creating stored procedures;
- Optimize database server processes;
- Maintain programs that monitors data from sites;
- Support developers and clients on report and data requirements;
- Support IT team; and
- Maintenance and monitoring of database servers.
- **QUALIFICATIONS**_
- At least 1 Year of working experience in the related field is required for this position;
- Preferably 1-4 Yrs Experienced Employee specialized in IT/Computer - Network/System/Database Admin or equivalent;
- Monday to Friday 8:30am-5:30pm Shift.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: Php18,000.00 - Php22,000.00 per month

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Opportunities for promotion
- Promotion to permanent employee

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Supplemental pay types:

- 13th month salary
- Overtime pay

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Database: 1 year (preferred)

The Database Administrator is responsible for developing, implementing and enforcing policies and procedures that ensure timely and accurate administration of the relational database environment. He/She will provide the technical expertise in logical and physical design, relational database systems performance management change control, and job control for the relational database environment.
- Graduate of any Computer related course
- Should be knowledgeable in MariaDB, MSSQl and other related databases
- Should be knowledgeable in SQL scripting
- Should have a background in Cloud set up and support
- Must have a solid background in database performance and monitoring, database configuration, backup and recovery.

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Salary**: Php40,000.00 - Php80,000.00 per month

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Shift system

Supplemental pay types:

- 13th month salary
- Overtime pay

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Database Administration: 2 years (preferred)
- MongoDB: 1 year (preferred)
- MSSQL: 1 year (preferred)
- AWS: 1 year (preferred)

- The ideal candidate must have strong hands-on experience with multiple database technologies, including both relational and NoSQL systems. This includes:
- MySQL: Proficient in writing complex queries, stored procedures, indexing, and performance tuning in transactional environments. br>- Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL): Capable of working with large-scale enterprise databases, including T-SQL scripting, data warehousing concepts, and ETL processes.
- MongoDB: Experienced in managing schema-less data, creating optimized queries, handling document-based structures, and ensuring performance in high-throughput NoSQL environments.
- Candidates should be comfortable working with data modeling, query optimization, and database integration within modern application architectures.

At least 6 months of Database Administration working experience with Oracle/MySQL/SQL Server and Linux/Unix is required.
- FRESH GRADUATES with a strong desire and drive to pursue a career in Database Administration and Management are welcome to apply. (Subject to strict monthly evaluation during probationary period).
- Fluency in English is preferred.
- Must have the drive and initiative to learn and do self-study in order to get tasks done properly.
- Must have the ability to go over and beyond the company and client's expectations.
- Must be able to confidently talk and interact with the clients and upper management.

**General Role and Responsibilities**:

- Familiarize and thoroughly study databases to cater various clients.
- Become a consultant in both onsite and offsite implementation and support activities.
- Assist with internal and client's technical requirements.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent, Fresh graduate

**Benefits**:

- Paid training
- Work from home

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift

Supplemental pay types:

- 13th month salary
- Overtime pay

**Experience**:

- Database Administration: 1 year (preferred)
- Oracle: 1 year (preferred)
- MSSQL: 1 year (preferred)