Database Administrator

Schertech, headquartered in Brixen, is part of the Scherer Group, an internationally operating group of companies with more than 6 locations worldwide. As a specialist for digital production solutions, we support manufacturing companies on their journey to the smart factory from MES and Lean Digital to process monitoring and integrated energy management. With around 50 highly qualified employees across Bangladesh, Germany, Italy, and Turkey, we combine technological innovation with global market reach. Our Dhaka team is a core part of product development, working directly with European teams and real manufacturing clients. Our MES platform, Shopfloor Suite, is used every day by factories across Europe to plan production, track machines and manage their shop floor. Your Challenge: As Database Administrator at SCT Bangla Limited, you will be responsible for the reliability, performance and security of the databases behind our MES platform. You will work closely with our development and DevOps teams in Dhaka and Europe. Your responsibilities include:
• Keep our production databases available, secure and fast across development, test, cloud (SAP BTP) and customer-hosted environments
• Design and regularly test backup, restore and disaster-recovery procedures, including point-in-time recovery
• Find and fix performance issues: slow queries, execution plans, indexing, locking and deadlocks
• Review database changes (Laravel migrations and SQL) before release so they run safely on both MySQL/MariaDB and PostgreSQL
• Plan for data growth with archiving, partitioning and clean-up strategies, and manage upgrades and replication
• Build monitoring, alerting and automation together with our DevOps team
• Coach our developers on query design and indexing, and act as the main contact for database incidents What you bring:
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience as a DBA or database engineer running production databases
• Strong expertise in MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL, and solid working knowledge of the other
• Advanced SQL: execution plans (EXPLAIN), index design, transactions, locking and deadlock analysis
• Proven backup and recovery experience with tools such as XtraBackup/mariabackup, pg_dump or pgBackRest/Barman, plus replication
• Linux server administration (Debian/Ubuntu), shell scripting and Docker
• Experience with database monitoring (e.g. Prometheus/Grafana, Percona tools, pg_stat_statements)
• Fluent English, written and spoken, and a structured, well-documented way of working Nice to have:
• Ability to read PHP/Laravel code; experience with ORMs such as Eloquent
• SQL Server or Redis; managed cloud databases (e.g. SAP BTP)
• CI/CD experience, ideally with Bitbucket Pipelines
• Experience with ERP or MES / manufacturing systems, or relevant database certifications What to expect:
• Join an international, growing company where your work directly supports manufacturing operations across Europe
• Take ownership of our database landscape and the critical systems that depend on it.
• Fully subsidized lunch and snacks
• Two festival bonuses each year (pro rata)
• Leave encashment
• Annual tour
• On-site doctor available twice a month for health check-ups
• Weekly football matches organized by the office to promote team spirit and well-being
• Professional development opportunities to grow your skills and career If you take pride in building reliable database environments, solving performance challenges and keeping production systems running smoothly, we'd love to hear from you.