Database Administrator

The NETS Group is a leading payments services group, enabling digital payments for merchants, consumers and banks across the entire payments value chain. 

The Group operates Singapore’s national debit scheme enabling customers of DBS Bank/POSB, HSBC, Maybank, OCBC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and UOB to make payments using their ATM cards or mobile devices at more than 130,000 acceptance points in the country as well as online payments.

Position Summary

You will work with a team of Database Administrators whose mission is to maintain 24/7 database availability in production environments relating to online payment services in NETS.You will be responsible for day-to-day administration tasks, which includes installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, backup & recovery, tuning, scripting, query optimizations and routine maintenance of the databases under your care.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish database performance baseline and executing workload tests such as replication, backup & recovery, log shipping, scalability, partitioning etc.
• Responsible for Database sizing, capacity planning, performance tuning and database account management.
• Review release notes and upgrade or patch database software based on maintenance schedules.
• Automate DBA operational and maintenance tasks
• Work closely with stakeholders in supporting the application development lifecycle by building an effective, usable database environment while also maintaining the proper database structure requirements.
• Create primary database storage structures (tablespaces), primary objects (tables, views, indexes) after application developers have designed an application.
• Define user access and enable data distribution to the right end user in an appropriate format and in a timely manner.
• Maintain and monitor systems to ensure optimal performance that meet established Service Level Agreements.
• Develop and maintain the database standards and operating procedures that are aligned to NETS Cyber Security and IT policies, procedures, and service management frameworks.
• Consult, analyze, assess and implement action plans to mitigate risks in relation to data management.
• Provide recommendations to management and related stakeholders on the technology roadmap and database integration with enterprise and/or cloud platforms.
• Requires to be on 24 x 7 standby rotational basis.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or related technology disciplines with at least 5 years of experience in database administration and operation management in Oracle, MySQL, & Microsoft SQL Server.
• Experience in Enterprise MySQL Database administration, architecture & design.
• Strong knowledge in database design, development, and administration in high volume, large scale and data intensive environment with relational & distributed databases.
• Experience with highly-available database technology like clustering and replication.
• Proficient in Ansible and Bash scripting to automate DBA operations and maintenance tasks.
• Knowledge in system administration in Red Hat Linux (RHEL), Windows Server (2012 and above) will be an added advantage.
• Strong analytical and project management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple projects with various timelines in a fast paced and dynamic environment.
• Familiar with ITIL processes such as Change, Incident Management.
• Proficient in database monitoring tools (Zabbix, Oracle Enterprise Manager).

Network for Electronic Transfers (Singapore) Pte Ltd.