Senior Database Administrator

Headquartered in Tokyo, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is a leading global financial institution and a core member of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC Group). Built upon our rich Japanese heritage since 1876, we put our customers first and provide seamless access to, from and within the Asia Pacific region.   SMBC is one of the largest Japanese banks by assets and maintain strong credit ratings across our global integrated network.  We work closely as one SMBC Group to offer personal, corporate and investment banking services to meet the needs of our customers.

With sustainability embedded within our strategy and operations, we are committed to creating a society in which today’s generation can enjoy economic prosperity and well-being, and pass it on to future generations.

SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKIING CORPORATION MALAYSIA BERHAD

Job Description

1. Plan, implement and support IT solutions / projects in database services.
2. Administer and maintain databases (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, etc.) to ensure efficient capacity and performance.
3. Perform database backups, restore procedures, and disaster recovery planning.
4. Conduct regular disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity test plan for database, minimize downtime for disaster recover test and meeting defined recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO).
5. Monitor database performance and implement tuning strategies to optimize queries, indexing, and system resources.
6. Implement regular patching and updates to the database, ensuring that the system is up-to-date security patches and features.
7. Implement and maintain high availability database service throught application cluster, HA solution such as Always On availability groups (AOAG) or Dataguard.
8. Follow a structured change management process for database updates, patches, and configuration changes, ensuring that these changes do not introduce new risks or vulnerabilities.
9. Perform risk assessments of database systems and apply necessary mitigations to reduce identified risks to acceptable levels.
10. Ensure databases compliance with head office rules, local regulations (e.g., Bank Negara Malaysia requirements) and industry standards.
11. Participate in internal and external audits of database systems to evaluate compliance with internal SMBC policies & local regulations.

Job Requirements

1. Degree or Diploma in IT or Computer Science
2. Minimum 3 years experiences in IT infrastructure (advantage in Financial Institution), working in DR capacity
3. Database (Microsoft / Non-Microsoft) technical support / configurations / installations.
4. Database high-availability design, configurations, and technical support