Database Administrator / Database Operations Engineer (Chinese Speaker)

Genese Solutions is a value-driven IT and cybersecurity consulting company headquartered in the United Kingdom, with offices across eleven countries including Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Finland, Australia, Nigeria, Spain, Ireland, and the USA. The company helps organizations worldwide optimize their IT operations and cost management, harness technology for innovation, and manage IT risk effectively, backed by ISO 27001:2022 certification for information security and compliance. With deep expertise spanning cloud consulting (as an AWS Premier Tier Partner), cybersecurity, software development, data engineering, AI/ML, and IT consulting, Genese serves a global client base across the EMEA, North America, Africa, and APAC regions-delivering value through project-based delivery, managed services, and flexible staffing to help businesses of all sizes innovate, scale, and stay secure in a fast-evolving digital landscape. Role Overview The engineer will operate, maintain and improve databases, caching platforms and related middleware in cloud and production environments. The role focuses on availability, performance, automation, incident resolution and close collaboration with technical teams based in China. Key Responsibilities Operate, maintain and support relational databases, caching platforms and related middleware in cloud and production environments. Monitor database availability, capacity, performance and reliability, and proactively address operational risks. Diagnose and resolve database incidents, performance degradation and resource bottlenecks. Perform installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, backup, recovery and routine database maintenance. Support database releases, migrations and controlled production changes. Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, automation and operational procedures for database services. Collaborate daily in Mandarin with technical teams in China to implement common database and middleware management standards. Assist application teams with database-related troubleshooting and production releases. Improve the utilisation, reliability and cost efficiency of database and application resources. Ensure data handling and database operations comply with applicable European data-protection requirements. Participate occasionally in an on-call rotation for urgent production incidents. Required Skills And Experience At least 3 years of relevant experience in database administration, database operations or a closely related role. Strong practical experience with at least one major relational database, preferably MySQL or PostgreSQL. Experience with performance analysis, query optimisation, backup, recovery and high-availability arrangements. Practical experience with at least one caching technology, such as Redis or Memcached. Good working knowledge of Linux and common network protocols, including TCP/IP and HTTP/HTTPS. Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. Strong troubleshooting skills and experience supporting production database environments. Understanding of GDPR and European data-protection requirements. Fluent Mandarin Chinese and professional working proficiency in English. Ability to work primarily onsite in Madrid, or willingness to relocate there. Advantageous Experience Databases hosted on public-cloud or containerised platforms. Scripting or automation using Python, Shell/Bash or a similar language. Middleware operations, cloud infrastructure or Kubernetes. Interest in AI technologies, large language models or agent-development frameworks What We Offer Work in a multinational company operating in the Cloud & ICT domain, based out of the UK and operating in Australia, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and BangladeshBest in class open, progressive, professional, and equal opportunity work environmentClosely knit and supportive team members and a culture where your contributions, opinions, and diversity is welcome, respected, & encouraged Skills: database,cloud,middleware