GBG is the leading expert in global identity and location. In an increasingly digital world, GBG helps businesses grow by giving them intelligence to make the best decisions about their customers, when it matters most.
Every second, our global data, agile technology, and expert teams, power over 20,000 of the world's best-known organisations to reach and trust their customers.
Why you should be@GBG
Reach
The precision of location data is critical to businesses that need to know exactly where their customers are so they can reduce failed deliveries, share great customer experiences and remove unnecessary costs. We provide the unique insight to know locations as well as the people who live there, because we understand global addresses better than anyone else.
This means our customers have confidence that their products and services will arrive in time and to the right location In the race to serve global customers, we exist to help every business in the world, reach every customer in the world.
Trust
When a digital business grows, most customers are genuine. However, many are fraudsters who manipulate identities to gain illegitimate access. We give our customers unique insight to decide which are trustworthy and which are fraudulent, because we understand identity better than anyone else.
This means businesses can confidently onboard good customers, reward great customers and reject fraudsters. In the fight against Identity, Fraud, trust is key, so the more you can know and the earlier you know it, the better decisions you can make.
About the team
Professional Services Team, SEA
We provide our solutions on a global scale. Southeast Asia (SEA) is central to the group’s growth plans and presents GBG with a significant opportunity to address both existing and new clients' business objectives with a full solution showcase. Importantly we consistently put the customer first and by doing so we focus on providing high quality customer service, this delivers improvements to the customer’s journey, which will generate enhanced profitability.
The team is responsible for providing professional services to address business objectives in the areas of risk prevention and fraud detection. To offer state-of-the-art software solutions and provide comprehensive client delivery and consulting support using our expertise and flexible, client-focused approach.
The Role
A Database Specialist is pivotal in ensuring the efficient, secure, and reliable operation of our product/ customer databases. The scope of their responsibilities is extensive and involves a variety of tasks aimed at maintaining the integrity and performance of database systems.
What you will do
- Develops and maintains Database reference architecture and design documents
- Design, develop, and implement scalable On-premise/ Cloud-based database solutions
- Further establish and ensure Database standards (security, reliability, availability, and scalability) and procedures are met by our product teams
- Identify opportunities for Database infrastructure optimization and cost reduction
- Root cause analysis of production-related database issues
- Maintain development and production environments
- Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems
- Perform physical implementation of databases, storage structures, high-availability solutions such as multi-AZ, replication, and disaster recovery solutions
- Manage, support and maintain both Cloud and On-Premises database environment as well as MS SQL Server databases and infrastructure, adhering to the architectural guidelines and policies
- Provide technical expertise and hands-on support in consolidation and migration of databases to new hardware and platforms
- Experience performing Database administration or database engineering duties for database internals for SQL Server.
- Experience in supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL will be added advantage
- Experience supporting software engineering teams through the software development lifecycle
- Experience deploying, operating, and monitoring database infrastructure AWS/ Azure cloud environment will be added advantage
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills
- A deep understanding of the cloud computing model as it relates to enterprise productivity
- Familiarity with AWS/ Azure Cloud products (EC2, EBS, S3, Lambda, Aurora, Dynamo DB, EMR, DMS data migration, Athena, Glue, Kinesis, SQS/SNS, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with operating high-uptime Databases in both AWS/ Azure and on-premises environments
- Experience with cloud database technologies (ie. AWS RDS, Oracle, MS SQL, Azure)
Behaviours we'd like to see
As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender race/ ethnicity, sex, religion, age, nationality, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity programme, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Partner if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.
To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we’re a great place to work, drop an email to and we’ll be in touch. You can also check out our career site .
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What We Do
Global digital identity and fraud solutions, working to create a world where everyone can transact online with confidence
Our market-leading technology, data and expertise help our customers improve digital access, deliver a seamless experience and establish trust so that they can transact quickly, safely and securely with their customers online.
Headquartered in the UK and with over 1,000 team members across 16 countries, we work with 20,000 customers in over 70 countries. Some of the world's best-known businesses rely on GBG to provide digital services and keep the economy moving, from US e-commerce giants to Asia's biggest banks and European household brands.
