Database Administrator

Eligibility Requirement Nationality: Saudi National (Mandatory)

Location

Saudi Arabia Work Mode: Onsite

Experience

Minimum 5 Years

Employment Type

Full-Time Important Note: This position is open only to Saudi Nationals (Saudi Citizenship is Mandatory). Applications from non-Saudi nationals will not be considered. Job Summary We are seeking a skilled and motivated Database Administrator (DBA) with a minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience managing and supporting enterprise database environments. The ideal candidate will be responsible for database administration, monitoring, maintenance, performance optimization, backup and recovery, security management, high availability, disaster recovery, and database support activities. The candidate should possess practical experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and/or MySQL in production environments and demonstrate the ability to ensure database performance, availability, reliability, and security. Key Responsibilities Perform database administration, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting activities. Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain database systems. Manage database backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery processes. Monitor database performance, capacity, availability, and overall health. Perform SQL query optimization and database performance tuning. Manage database security, users, roles, permissions, and access controls. Troubleshoot and resolve database-related incidents and performance issues. Support database migrations, upgrades, patching, and maintenance activities. Ensure data integrity, reliability, and availability. Maintain database documentation, procedures, and configurations. Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and application teams on database-related initiatives. Participate in failover testing, disaster recovery testing, and maintenance activities. Support production, development, and testing database environments. Good-to-Have Skills Oracle RAC Administration. Oracle Data Guard. SQL Server Always On Availability Groups. SQL Server Failover Clustering. PostgreSQL Streaming Replication.

Desired Candidate Profile

Must-Have Skills 5+ years of hands-on Database Administration experience. Strong experience with one or more of the following database platforms: PostgreSQL Oracle Database Microsoft SQL Server MySQL Database installation, configuration, administration, and maintenance. Database backup and recovery management. Database replication technologies and administration. High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) implementation and support. SQL query optimization and performance tuning. Database monitoring, health checks, and capacity planning. Database troubleshooting and incident resolution. Database security administration and access management. User, role, permission, and privilege management. Database migration, upgrade, and patch management activities. Experience supporting production database environments. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Good communication and documentation skills.