Senior Database Administrator (Senior DBA)

About the role

OmniOps is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own and operate its critical database environments across Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Db2 and PostgreSQL. The role focuses on ensuring high availability, performance, security and reliability for the company’s AI‑driven solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade and maintain SQL Server, Db2 and PostgreSQL instances.
• Monitor health, capacity and performance; troubleshoot bottlenecks and optimise queries.
• Design and implement backup, restoration, disaster‑recovery and business‑continuity procedures.
• Configure replication, clustering and other high‑availability architectures.
• Apply security controls, patching and compliance measures.
• Plan capacity and forecast storage, compute and memory needs.
• Support migrations, consolidations, upgrades and cross‑platform modernisation projects.

Required profile

• Proven senior‑level experience managing production databases.
• Hands‑on expertise with Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Db2 and PostgreSQL.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to take ownership of enterprise‑wide database environments.
• Experience with high‑availability, disaster‑recovery and performance‑tuning initiatives.

Required skills

• Microsoft SQL Server
• IBM Db2
• PostgreSQL
• Backup and recovery strategies
• High‑availability and clustering
• Disaster‑recovery planning
• Performance tuning, query optimisation, indexing, execution‑plan analysis
• Replication and data synchronization
• Database security, patching and compliance
• Capacity planning and forecasting
• Database migration, consolidation and upgrade processes