Senior Database Administrator

Global Payment Holding Company

Job Location:

Dublin - Ireland

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 3 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Every day Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit debit prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies more than 1300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Role Purpose

Senior DBA supporting multiple mission critical and Tier-0 payments platforms. Own stability performance integrity and compliance across MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL. This is a senior specialist role with direct impact on customer experience payment flows audit readiness and business continuity.

GlobalPay databases are a critical path for customerfacing services and transaction processing.

Experienced DBA to provide deep domain expertise on schema performance and incident

Summary

Senior / Experienced DBA responsible for the reliability performance availability and security of enterprise databases across Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL. Own production operations performance tuning HA/DR backups/restores change governance and compliance for missioncritical services.

Key Responsibilities

Run production SQL Server and PostgreSQL in multienvironment estates (ops upgrades patching access).

Performance engineering: execution plans Query Store/DMVs pgstatstatements; indexing & partitioning.

Capacity & growth planning; workload optimisation for OLTP/batch workloads.

Design/operate HA/DR (AGs/replication); define/meet RPO/RTO; lead restore and DR drills.

Own backup/restore strategy crossregion replication and audit evidence packs.

Security & compliance: encryption inflight/atrest certs/keys access controls audit trails.

Change governance: impact assessments CAB representation safe deploys/rollbacks (Redgate or similar).

Observability: monitoring/alerting dashboards SLOs runbooks and postincident reviews.

Schema reviews and data design guidance; lifecycle for large tables (archiving/partitioning).

Mentor engineers; document standards and best practices.

Experience & Skills

4 years enterprise DBA experience across SQL Server and / Or PostgreSQL (production).

Performance tuning (plans stats parameter sniffing waits EXPLAIN/ANALYZE).

HA/DR design & operation (AGs/replication backups/restores failover).

Security/compliance mindset; auditready documentation.

Automation: PowerShell essential; CI/CD for databases (e.g. Redgate) desirable.

Monitoring with native tools and Grafana/Prometheus or equivalents.

Clear timely communication; calm under pressure; stakeholder management.

Nice to Have

MySQL exposure; data warehousing experience.

Scripting with Python/Bash; infrastructureascode familiarity.

Experience in payments/financial services or other highthroughput transactional systems.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC