Database Administrator
OKX is a leading global cryptocurrency exchange offering a wide range of trading services, including spot and derivatives trading, as well as Web3 solutions.
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About OKX
OKX is a global cryptocurrency exchange known for its trading services and financial products. The platform offers a wide range of features, including spot and derivatives trading, staking services, and a user-friendly interface suitable for both beginners and experienced traders.
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About the Role
You will design, deploy, optimise, and manage enterprise cloud database platforms throughout their lifecycle. You will support multi-cloud Alibaba Cloud and AWS environments, improving availability, performance, security, resilience, and cost efficiency. You will also deliver migrations, scaling, high-availability, and data-distribution solutions for business-critical systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or a related field
- 4+ years of database management experience
- 2+ years of Alibaba Cloud or AWS experience
- Proficiency in relational, NoSQL, and distributed database architectures
- Experience with high-availability designs in production
- Understanding of database engine internals
- Database design, capacity planning, and architecture governance capabilities
- Database performance tuning and optimisation experience
- Experience operating databases with high concurrency and large-scale data volumes
- Hands-on experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, HBase, and Kafka
- Linux/Unix system administration skills
- Proficiency in Python and Shell scripting
- Current right to work in Singapore without requiring visa sponsorship
Responsibilities
- Execute end-to-end database operations, including backup and recovery, monitoring and alerting, health checks, capacity planning, release support, lifecycle management, and operational documentation
- Optimise database reliability and performance through SQL tuning, index optimisation, schema review, workload analysis, slow-query analysis, and production incident investigation
- Implement database security and governance controls, including access management, privilege review, audit logging, encryption, data masking, vulnerability remediation, and security baseline enforcement
- Maintain and validate backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions, including RPO/RTO planning, restore testing, replication, failover drills, and emergency recovery procedures
- Deliver database migration, scaling, sharding, read/write splitting, high-availability, and data-distribution solutions
Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package
- Learning and development programs
- Education subsidy
- Team-building programs and company events
- Wellness allowance
- Meal allowance
- Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependants
