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Senior Database Administrator

Bumrungrad Hospital Public Company Limited (Vadhana)
Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭
Bumrungrad International Hospital stands as arguably the most impressive medical facility in the region. It has 55 specialty centers, an internationally certified lab and pharmacy, clinical research centers, advanced imaging facilities, and a 24-hour emergency care unit. Bumrungrad is home to more than 1300 physicians and surgeons, 300 of whom hold US-board certifications and international fellowships. As part of its ongoing commitment to exceptional care, Bumrungrad receives ongoing independent reviews and distinctions, including its consistent accreditation by the Joint Commission International (JCI) since 2002, the first in Asia. In its state-of-the-art campus in the heart of Bangkok, Bumrungrad Hospital treats over 1.1 million patients every year, with over 520,000 of these patients coming from more than 190 countries worldwide. The hospital specializes in treating complicated conditions, and is internationally recognized as one of the top hospitals in the world. Along with its impressive tertiary and specialty facilities, Bumrungrad International’s Medical Coordination Office is a well-oiled machine that facilitates seamless transitions from the first inquiry all the way through after-care. This exclusive and comprehensive support is offered free of charge to patients, and it includes everything from language and cultural support to travel and accommodation services.

About this position

The Senior Database Administrator is responsible for overseeing the installation, administration, maintenance, monitoring, and optimization of database systems, ensuring their performance and availability while providing technical support and problem resolution.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for overseeing the installation, administration, maintenance, monitoring, optimize performance, technical support, and problem resolution for database systems
• Builds and reports on database systems performance and availability metrics.
• Responsible for database backup and restore functions, scheduled tests of DR availability.
• Review database systems architecture of the projects
• Evaluate the database solution to comply with security.
• Installing, implementing database systems and security hardening including HA/DR solution to ensure the database availability.
• Implement and maintain database checklist and best practice recommendations.
• Migrate/Upgrade/Patch database systems to latest version to fix bugs/improve security
• Serve IT Service Request and communicate with requestor to gather required information for implementing the service
• Plan and execute Service Requests / Changes in accordance with Bumrungrad policies and procedures
• Resolve incident on timely manner and prevent the issue reoccurrence
• Always find room of improvements
• Attend training (not limited to class room, instructor led) or development activity
• Pursue and maintain current professional certification

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree สาขา Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field, and/or higher degree
• Certified MCSA SQL Server DB Administration
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate (Optional)
• At least 5 years of experience in a database administrator, data engineer role.
• Expert in MS SQL Server Database Administration
• Expert in designing database system and data architecture
• Expert in database migration in Enterprise scale
• Experience in the following technologies is advantageous:
• Oracle DB, NoSQL DB on Linux
• Implementing ETL/ELT to load data to Data Warehouse/Data Lake from various sources (with SSIS, other ETL tools)
• Reporting tools ie. Tableau, Power BI, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
• Hospital Information System (HIS), Big Data management
• Windows / Linux System Administration
• Data security management, including of data privacy and data protection law
• IT incident and change management processes