Posted on: 23/07/2026
Job Title : Senior Sybase Database Administrator (DBA).
Experience :
- Require a minimum of 10+ years of dedicated, relevant experience in Sybase Database Administration.
- Must possess a strong, authoritative command over both enterprise Linux (RHEL/OEL) and Windows Server environments, actively managing database hosting layers, file system structures, and platform-specific performance variables across both operating systems.
- Backup & Recovery : Design, implement, and validate robust database backup, restoration, and disaster recovery processes, ensuring strict alignment with corporate RPO and RTO metrics across physical SAN and cloud-attached storage tiers.
- Capacity & Storage Planning : Handle long-term capacity planning, database device allocations, segment management, and growth forecasting to ensure optimal space management for Very Large Databases (VLDBs).
- Health Monitoring : Monitor system health and capacity proactively, designing advanced instrumentation using system tables, sp_sysmon, and native diagnostic utilities alongside third-party enterprise monitoring tools.
- Incident Management & Corruption Recovery : Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, severe engine locks, spinlock contentions, network log blockages, and lead emergency recovery operations for database page corruption using advanced dbcc utilities.
- Security & Compliance : Implement and enforce rigorous enterprise database security, authentication, role-based access control, encryption standards, and strict auditing protocols to satisfy regulatory and corporate compliance audits.
- User Management & Security Hardening.
- Performance Tuning : Perform expert-level engine and database performance tuning, utilizing deep knowledge of Sybase internals (sp_configure), engine-to-CPU affinity, named data caches, table locking schemes (APL vs. DOL), and complex query plan optimization.
- High Availability & Replication Engineering : Structure, configure, and maintain robust high availability and real-time data distribution networks, troubleshooting complex Sybase Replication Server topologies (warm standby, MSA, stable queue management), failover clusterings, and automated failover setups.
- Migrations & Upgrades : Plan, architect, and execute seamless Sybase ASE/IQ database version migrations, cross-platform upgrades, lifecycle management, and Emergency Bug Fix (EBF) patching with minimal business downtime.
- Automation Engineering : Develop and maintain unified automation frameworks for routine administrative tasks, automated database consistency checks (dbcc), and automated alerting using UNIX/Linux Shell scripting (Bash/Ksh) or Perl.
- Platform & Infrastructure Management : Manage, configure, and tune Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) and Sybase IQ architectures across physical and virtual enterprise Unix/Linux environments.
- Production Operations : Provide expert L2/L3 production operational support, leading critical Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations, implementing preventive actions, and participating in high-priority on-call frameworks.
- PostgreSQL Administration & Migration (Add-on) : Provide secondary operational overview, maintenance support, or target-schema and code mapping compatibility assessments for cloud migration initiatives moving legacy Sybase workloads to PostgreSQL / AWS RDS / Azure PostgreSQL environments.
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