Database Administrator (DBA) | KSA Nationals Only

Job Summary

Eligibility Requirements

• Saudi National (mandatory).
• Location: Saudi Arabia.
• Work Mode: Onsite.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years.
• Employment Type: Full-Time.

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.

Must-Have Skills

• 5+ years of hands-on Database Administration experience.
• Strong experience with one or more of PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, or 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.
• Database migration, upgrade, and patch management activities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and good communication and documentation skills.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Oracle RAC Administration and Oracle Data Guard.
• SQL Server Always On Availability Groups and Failover Clustering.
• PostgreSQL Streaming Replication and Patroni / PgPool.
• MySQL Replication and 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 and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• ITIL Knowledge.
• Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL Certifications.