About this role
Database Administrator
Location(s) Shanghai, Shanghai Company Koch Career Field Information Systems & Technology Job Number 191304
Your Job We are looking for a Senior MS SQL Server and Cloud Technology Database Administrator (DBA) who is eager to contribute to the success of a diverse team. The DBA will be part of an international team, providing database management and hosting services to various Koch Industries companies. This role will be customer-facing and act as the primary point of contact for one of Koch Technologies' customers. Koch Industries is a privately held global organization with over 120,000 employees around the world, with subsidiaries involved in manufacturing, trading, and investments. As KT rapidly scales up its operations in India, its employees will get opportunities to carve out a career path for themselves within the organization. This role will have the opportunity to play a critical part in helping to strengthen the capabilities and technical offerings of Koch Technology (KT). Working closely with global colleagues would provide significant international exposure to the employees.
DBA would report to the Global DB Services Manager and would be responsible for supporting a portfolio of managed database systems. DBA will work closely with the customer, owning the database services relationship between that customer and Koch Technologies. DBA will also develop solutions and services catering to specific business issues as well as resolve database-related incidents. DBA shall have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, and shall exhibit strong teamwork and organization skills.
Our Team Join a global team delivering enterprise database and cloud solutions across Koch businesses worldwide. This role offers strong exposure to modern technologies, international collaboration, and opportunities to create real business value.
What You Will Do
- Using your creativity and experience to develop and maintain innovative services in support of a growing portfolio of managed database systems.
- Providing tactical and strategic solutions to solve specific business problems by working closely with customers and other DBAs.
- Lending your database expertise to ongoing development projects across Koch companies .
- Resolving database-related incidents and service requests within SLAs.
- Communicate directly with customer database stakeholders.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) 10+ years of hands-on MS SQL Server 5+ years of hands-on administration experience in Cloud-technology databases, including Azure,AWS EC2, RDS databases. Strong expertise in SQL programming, development, and performance tuning. Proven track record managing MS SQL Server versions 2012 to 2025 instances in a Standalone and Clustered configuration Proven ability to administer large OLTP databases in a mission-critical environment. Understanding & experience of database and storage desi