About This Position
- Collaboration & Support.
- Partner with application, platform, and cloud teams on architecture reviews and new initiatives.
- Provide on-call support for production systems and lead root-cause analysis for incidents.
- Maintain detailed runbooks and knowledge-base documentation.
What you´ll do
- Database Engineering & Operations:
- Deploy, upgrade, and patch relational databases in virtualized and cloud environments (VMware, and Alibaba).
- Design and maintain high-availability and disaster-recovery architectures (clustering, replication, Always-On, streaming, etc.).
- Participate, Implement, and monitor backup, recovery, and retention strategies.
- Performance & Capacity Management.
- Conduct capacity planning, indexing, and query-plan analysis.
- Tune databases and optimize I/O, memory, and storage to meet strict SLAs.
- Security & Compliance:
- Apply role-based access control and participate in GRC compliance and auditing.
- Ensure compliance with corporate and regulatory standards (CSIS and ISO).
- Automation & DevOps Integration.
- Create automation scripts using PowerShell, Bash, or Python (added advantage).
What makes you a good fit
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience in IT service delivery and network operations within a critical support environment.
- Proven experience as a DBA Administrator, preferably within a data centre or enterprise infrastructure environment.
- Proficiency in SQL and strong understanding of relational database concepts.
- Expertise in HA/DR design, performance tuning, and large-scale backup/restore.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
- Proficient in English communication (spoken and written).
- Experience with project collaboration across cross-functional IT and infrastructure teams.
Some perks of joining Henkel
- Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
- Diverse national and international growth opportunities
- Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
- Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
- Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
- Comprehensive Group Insurance Scheme
- Annual Physical Examination
- Flexible Benefits cover for dependents
- Company Products Discount
At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations.