Database Administrator - Teknosys

Grade: L2

Location: Islamabad

Company: Teknosys

Safeguard the databases that power Pakistan’s digital future

At Teknosys, resilience and reliability are the foundation of digital innovation. As a Database Administrator (DBA), you will

manage and safeguard mission-critical database platforms that power production applications across enterprises and government systems.

This role ensures high availability, performance optimization, and rapid recovery during failures or outages. You will design robust architectures, implement disaster recovery strategies, and collaborate with infrastructure, DevOps, and application teams to maintain reliable and scalable database environments.

Requirements

What you’ll own

• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis) databases
• High availability and failover management through replication, clustering, and switchover procedures
• Backup integrity, disaster recovery planning, and periodic DR drills to validate readiness
• Performance optimization through query tuning, indexing, partitioning, and capacity planning
• Proactive monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis using Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, Nagios, or similar tools
• Security hardening, encryption, access