Job Description

• Administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise database platforms across production and non-production environments.
• Manage self-hosted, Kubernetes-based, and cloud-hosted database infrastructure, including MySQL and MongoDB.
• Install, configure, upgrade, migrate, patch, and maintain database platforms with minimal service disruption.
• Ensure database availability, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence for business-critical services.

• Design, implement, and maintain database replication, clustering, failover, and High Availability (HA) solutions.
• Manage backup, restoration, Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR), and disaster recovery strategies.
• Conduct periodic backup validation and recovery testing to ensure business continuity objectives.
• Monitor replication health, replication lag, failover readiness, and database resilience across production environments.

• Monitor database performance, availability, storage utilization, and overall database health.
• Perform query tuning, indexing, execution plan analysis, and database optimization.
• Conduct capacity planning and proactively identify performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with Engineering teams to improve database design and application performance.

• Implement database security controls including authentication, authorization, encryption, auditing, and least privilege access.
• Enforce secure configuration baselines, database hardening, privileged access management, and database activity monitoring.
• Maintain database audit trails, access review records, and security logs.
• Support compliance with Bangladesh Bank ICT Security Guidelines, PCI DSS, ISO/IEC 27001, and internal security standards.

• Support production change management, release planning, and database deployment activities.
• Develop and maintain database standards, SOPs, operational documentation, and technical runbooks.
• Participate in database risk assessments, security reviews, regulatory inspections, and audit activities.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, DevOps, Information Security, Risk, and Engineering teams to ensure secure and reliable database operations.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Oracle MySQL Database Administrator
• MongoDB Associate DBA

• Minimum 3+ years of professional experience in Database Administration.
• Strong hands-on experience managing enterprise database platforms, including MySQL, MongoDB, and other relational or NoSQL databases.
• Experience managing self-hosted database clusters, Kubernetes-based database platforms, Cloud-hosted databases, and MongoDB Atlas environments.
• Prior experience in Banking, FinTech, or other regulated financial institutions will be highly preferred.
• Practical experience supporting High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), backup & recovery, replication, database security, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting regulatory audits, compliance initiatives, and mission-critical production environments.

• Strong knowledge of database administration, replication, clustering, backup, recovery, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise backup, monitoring, and database automation tools.
• Experience with Cloud, Kubernetes-based database platforms, MongoDB Atlas, and Linux in production environments.
• Strong understanding of database security, encryption, audit logging, privileged access management, secure configuration practices, and database activity monitoring.
• Good understanding of Bangladesh Bank ICT Security Guidelines, PCI DSS, ISO/IEC 27001, backup and disaster recovery best practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• High attention to detail with strong execution capability.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, highly regulated fintech environment.

• Competitive salary
• Festival bonuses
• Opportunity to work in a fast-growing global fintech environment
• Career development and leadership exposure