Manila Recruitment
Manila Recruitment
11 – 50 Employees
ConsultingLogisticsMarketing

Manila Recruitment is a Philippines-based recruitment agency that helps multinationals, corporations, and start-ups build teams for the Filipino market. Its services include executive search, IT recruitment, headhunting, offshore staffing, and remote staffing across areas such as consulting, logistics, and marketing.

The agency develops recruitment strategies around each client’s business goals, with a process-driven approach focused on sourcing both active and passive candidates. Manila Recruitment’s certified headhunters support hiring through a substantial candidate network and candidate guarantee programs.

AWS Database Administrator – Hybrid in Taguig

Manage mission-critical IBM Db2 and PostgreSQL databases on AWS. Own high availability, disaster recovery, performance, and 24/7 production support.

Description

  • Administer AWS-hosted database environments, including databases operating in EC2 HADR configurations
  • Track and improve database performance, availability, capacity, and reliability
  • Maintain IBM Db2 environments and support related projects, upgrades, and enhancements
  • Provide support for PostgreSQL environments as needed
  • Administer and troubleshoot high-availability, multi-node database clusters
  • Support disaster recovery, backup and restore, and broader database resilience processes
  • Resolve L2/L3 database incidents involving performance, clusters, system jobs, and production operations
  • Help investigate and resolve P1/P2 incidents, including after-hours events when necessary
  • Use monitoring and observability tools to track database and infrastructure health
  • Assist with database migrations, upgrades, configuration updates, and other technical initiatives
  • Manage capacity and identify performance, storage, or resource limitations before they impact production
  • Follow established incident and change management procedures
  • Partner with Platform Architects and technical teams on governance, automation, and database operating standards
  • Develop operational automation and improvements that increase efficiency, reliability, and repeatability
  • Take part in a 24/7 on-call rotation
  • Collaborate effectively with teams distributed across multiple locations

Requirements

  • Demonstrated hands-on experience as a Database Administrator or in a closely related database infrastructure position
  • At least three years of practical AWS experience supporting mission-critical production databases
  • Strong PostgreSQL experience or expertise with another relevant enterprise relational database
  • Deep knowledge of database maintenance, performance tuning, high availability, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and capacity management
  • Background troubleshooting production database problems, including performance, clustering, system jobs, and availability incidents
  • Experience working with Linux or other operating systems in database or infrastructure settings
  • Experience following incident and change management procedures in production or mission-critical environments
  • Ability to investigate technical issues independently and take clear ownership of database problems
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, database tools, monitoring, or observability platforms
  • Strong communication skills and effectiveness when collaborating with geographically distributed technical teams
  • Availability and willingness to join a 24/7 on-call rotation and respond to critical incidents outside standard working hours
  • IBM Db2 certification is advantageous but not required

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