Database Administrator (DBA)

Job description

Location: Saudi Arabia Nationality: Saudi National (Mandatory) Experience: 3-5 Years (Mid-Level) Employment Type: Full-Time Work Mode: Onsite Job Summary We are seeking a skilled and motivated Database Administrator (DBA) with 3-5 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. Must-Have Skills • 3-5 years of hands-on Database Administration experience. • Strong experience with one or more of the following: • PostgreSQL • Oracle Database • Microsoft SQL Server • MySQL • Database Installation, Configuration, and Administration. • Database Backup and Recovery. • Database Replication. • High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR). • SQL Query Optimization. • Database Performance Tuning. • Database Monitoring and Health Checks. • Database Troubleshooting and Incident Resolution. • Database Security Administration. • User, Role, Permission, and Access Management. • Database Migration and Upgrade Activities. • Patch Management and Maintenance. • Experience supporting Production Database Environments. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. • Good communication and documentation skills. Good-to-Have Skills • Oracle RAC Administration. • Oracle Data Guard. • SQL Server Always On Availability Groups. • SQL Server Failover Clustering. • PostgreSQL Streaming Replication. • PostgreSQL Patroni / PgPool. • MySQL Replication. • Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM). • Grafana, Zabbix, Nagios, or similar monitoring tools. • Linux Administration. • Shell Scripting. • PowerShell Scripting. • Python Scripting. • Azure, AWS, OCI, or GCP Database Services. • DevOps and Automation Experience. • Infrastructure as Code (IaC). • ITIL Knowledge. • Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL Certifications About this profession: Database administrators test, implement and administer computer databases. They use their expertise in database management systems to plan, coordinate and implement security measures to safeguard computer databases. They also use scripts and configuration files to tailor a database to users' needs. • Supervise developing standards and guidelines of database utilization, access and supervision over the execution thereof. • Plan, coordinate and implement the security measures for protecting information, ensure defending the database against any unauthorized access, damage, amendment or disclosure. • Design and implement the services of configuration, replication, back-up & recovery for all databases, servers and applications. • Supervise audits of services, to ensure the compliance with policies, besides the amendment of databases and management systems accordingly. • Develop and implement plans and procedures of risk addressing and data restoring

Requirements

• Qualification: Bachelor's degree
• Skill: Query language for the resource description framework
• Skill: database management
• Skill: Distributed Computing
• Skill: Query languages
• Location: Riyadh region

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