Database Administrator ( Mid-Level DBA)
Role Overview
Location: Saudi Arabia.
Nationality: Saudi National (Mandatory).
Experience: 3-5 Years (Mid-Level).
Employment Type: Full-Time.
Work Mode: Onsite.
Seeking a skilled and motivated Database Administrator (DBA) with 3-5 years of hands-on experience managing and supporting enterprise database environments.
Responsible for database administration, monitoring, maintenance, performance optimization, backup and recovery, security management, high availability, disaster recovery, and database support activities.
Practical experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and/or MySQL in production environments required.
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Job Summary
Location: Saudi Arabia.
Nationality: Saudi National (Mandatory).
Experience: 3-5 Years (Mid-Level).
Employment Type: Full-Time.
Work Mode: Onsite.
Seeking a skilled and motivated Database Administrator (DBA) with 3-5 years of hands-on experience managing and supporting enterprise database environments.
Responsible for database administration, monitoring, maintenance, performance optimization, backup and recovery, security management, high availability, disaster recovery, and database support activities.
Practical experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and/or MySQL in production environments required.
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 and 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 PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, or MySQL.
- Database installation, configuration, and administration.
- Database backup and recovery, replication, high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR).
- SQL query optimization, database performance tuning, monitoring, and health checks.
- Database troubleshooting and incident resolution.
- Database security administration and 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 and Oracle Data Guard.
- SQL Server Always On Availability Groups and Failover Clustering.
- PostgreSQL Streaming Replication and 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 and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- ITIL Knowledge.
- Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL Certifications.
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