Dedicated database administrators for your offshore team.
Offshore database administrators in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, working full time on your roadmap and managed by us. A database administrator keeps your databases fast, backed up and recoverable, which matters most on the day something goes wrong.
One agreement and one fixed monthly fee, with a service delivery manager in Thailand who runs your team day to day.
This role is part of a dedicated data engineering team. It's staff augmentation, fully managed: take one role on its own, or the whole discipline as one delivery team.
One Database Administrator, assigned to your product and fully managed.
We assign a Database Administrator to your team full time and run everything around them: a service delivery manager who answers for the work, training and coaching, the office and equipment, and HR and payroll. The price below is for a mid-level Database Administrator; junior and senior levels are priced in your proposal, and how the monthly fee is built explains the arithmetic.
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One mid-level Database Administrator, full time, everything below included. All 27 things included ››
- Database administrator From USD 3,900 per month
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Service
We manage and develop the team
- A service delivery manager who runs the team and answers for delivery
- A 1:1 with our Head of Delivery every two weeks
- Weekly delivery scoring and monthly capacity reports
- A Talent Success Manager for every specialist
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HR
We are the employer
- Recruitment and technical assessment
- Employment contracts
- Salary and payroll
- Tax and social security
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Facilitation
We provide the workplace
- A desk in our own office in Chiang Mai or Bangkok
- A Workplace Experience Manager on site
- Team events through the year
- IT support
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Equipment
We supply the tools
- Laptop and hardware
- Software licences
- LinkedIn Learning access
- Device security and management
What a Database Administrator does on a managed data engineering team.
They work with your backend and data engineers, review schema changes before they ship and report on performance, backups and capacity.
Database Administrator skills and technologies
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Query and index tuning, usually the cheapest performance win available to a product team.
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Backup, recovery testing and replication, including actually restoring to prove it works.
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Capacity planning, upgrades and migrations without unplanned downtime.
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Connection pooling and configuration tuning, which often fixes what looks like an application problem.
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Planning and executing major version upgrades with a tested rollback path.
Database Administrator seniority levels.
Mid-level to senior. Database work often takes part of a specialist's week within a data or backend team. Seniority is one of the inputs into how the monthly fee is built.
When your team needs a Database Administrator.
Usually works within a data engineering or backend team, often as part of a full-time role that covers other data work too. Database administrators join as part of a managed data team.
What we look for in a dedicated Database Administrator.
We look for DBAs who restore backups to prove they work, and tune with evidence from real query plans. Calm under pressure matters, because the job is most important on the worst day.
Your remote Database Administrator's first three months.
- Weeks 1 to 2Auditing configuration, backups and slow queries across your databases.
- Weeks 3 to 6Fixing the top performance issues and testing a full restore.
- Months 2 to 3Planning upgrades and capacity, with a tested rollback path for each change.
Questions about adding a Database Administrator to your team.
Do you test our backups?
Yes, by restoring them, so you know recovery works before you need it.
Can you speed up queries without changing application code?
Often, through indexing and configuration. When the query itself needs changing, we work with your developers on it.
Add remote database administrators to your team.
Tell us your roadmap and your stack, and we'll come back with the right profile, the capacity and a start date. You can also talk to a service delivery manager first.
Add database administrators to your remote team.
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