Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and
more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with
more than 2.5 million accommodations globally. Based in Asia and part of
Booking Holdings, our 4,000+ employees representing 90+ nationalities foster a
work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate
through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for
our customers to experience the world.
Get to Know Our Team
The Data department oversees all of Agoda’s data-related requirements. Our
ultimate goal is to enable and increase the use of data in the company through
creative approaches and the implementation of powerful resources such as
operational and analytical databases, queue systems, BI tools, and data
science technology. We hire the brightest minds from around the world to take
on this challenge and equip them with the knowledge and tools that contribute
to their personal growth and success while supporting our company’s culture of
diversity and experimentation. The role the Data team plays at Agoda is
critical as business users, product managers, engineers, and many others rely
on us to empower their decision making. We are equally dedicated to our
customers by improving their search experience with faster results and
protecting them from any fraudulent activities. Data is interesting only when
you have enough of it, and we have plenty. This is what drives up the
challenge as part of the Data department, but also the reward.
The Opportunity
In Agoda, we have 800+ MSSQL instances across 5 data centers which have 7
nines uptime to serve customer, affiliate, and Agoda employee users around the
world.
We have been working on big scale of fast & safe database CI/CD pipeline with
involved 1,000+ Engineers in IT department and it leads to have new 50-100
store procedures deployment on production every day.
As Senior DBA, you will have a big challenge & opportunity to help define,
standardized and provide best practice of SQL administration including setup,
migration, monitoring, high availability and performance tuning.
In This Role, You’ll Get to
* Proactive monitoring to detect unusual behavior on production database by creating automation & visibility i.e. high query resource usage, unusual database traffic, database server capacity, etc. and coordinate with Engineering team to optimize it before it becomes to be big incident
* Research and implement automation tool to help reduce human time on daily basis i.e. Installation and upgrade tool, Database deployment tool, Anomaly Detection, etc
* Setup, migrate and re-architect Agoda production database to support business growth
* Coordinate with Infrastructure team to planned or unplanned maintenance
What You’ll Need To Succeed
* Solid production experiences in a “high transactional” 24×7 OLTP of MS SQL Server administration
* Excellent SQL query, Optimizer and Execution plan principles
* Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server
* Up-to-date knowledge the Data Protection Act and GDPR
* Excellent English written and verbal communication
* Be able to work multi-task and context-switch effectively between different activities and teams
* Be able to attend On-Call rotation
It’s Great If You Have
* Storage, windows OS, Network principle
* MCSA, MCSE, and/or MVP certifications
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Equal Opportunity Employer
At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all
different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse
talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration
and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and
qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity
regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital
status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability,
citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected
characteristics.
We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future
vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file.
For more details please read our privacy policy .
To all recruitment agencies: Agoda does not accept third party resumes. Please
do not send resumes to our jobs alias, Agoda employees or any other
organization location. Agoda is not responsible for any fees related to
unsolicited resumes.
