Database Administrator (PostgreSQL & MySQL) - Saudi only

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What sets you apart:

Qualifications

• You’re an experienced Database Administrator who understands that managing production databases is about more than keeping services running. You know how to prevent data loss, diagnose complex performance problems, plan high-risk changes, and build systems that remain reliable under pressure.
• You’re comfortable working with large, business-critical databases and can balance operational stability with the need to improve architecture, automation, and scalability.
• Have 5+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL administration experience in production.
• Have experience with AWS Aurora, Amazon RDS, MySQL, and self-managed Linux databases.
• Understand database performance tuning, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Have experience managing multi-terabyte databases, upgrades, and migrations.
• Can automate database operations using Bash or Python.
• You have hands-on experience with backups, recovery, replication, and failover.
• You can troubleshoot database incidents and minimize downtime.
• You follow safe change-management practices and maintain rollback plans.
• You can troubleshoot slow queries, indexing, locking, and resource utilization.
• You understand PostgreSQL internals and multi-tenant database challenges.
• You take ownership and remain calm under pressure.
• You communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with engineering teams.
• You document your work and continuously improve database reliability.
• Experience with multi-tenant database architectures, particularly schema-per-tenant environments with thousands of schemas.
• Experience managing databases larger than several terabytes with high write volumes and demanding availability requirements.
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL tooling such as Patroni, pgBackRest, or WAL-G.
• Experience supporting cloud migrations or moving customer workloads to in-Kingdom hosting environments.
• Familiarity with database observability, capacity planning, and per-customer database usage or cost allocation.
• Experience working in SaaS, data-platform, fintech, banking, or telecommunications environments.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools and automated database provisioning.
• Relevant certifications, such as EDB PostgreSQL or AWS certifications.
• What the hiring process will look like
• Mawhub screening
• Technical screen (45 min) — [DB Lead]
• Technical deep-dive (60–90 min) with a practical scenario: diagnosing replication lag and WAL contention, planning a zero-downtime major upgrade — [DB Lead + SRE Team Lead]
• Hiring manager interview — Mahmoud Moharam, Cloud Manager
• Culture fit interview - HR Director

Preferred Qualifications

• Nice to Have (but not required)

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain PostgreSQL and MySQL databases across AWS, GCP, and self-managed environments.
• Monitor database performance, availability, and capacity.
• Optimize queries, indexing, and database resource utilization.
• Manage backups, point-in-time recovery, and disaster recovery.
• Implement database replication, high availability, and failover strategies.
• Plan database upgrades, migrations, and safe schema changes.
• Maintain database security, access controls, and auditing.
• Automate database operations using Bash, Python, or similar tools.
• Troubleshoot database incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, SRE, and Cloud teams to improve database reliability and scalability.
• What success looks like (First 90–120 Days)
• First 30 days:
• You’ve developed a clear understanding of the production database estate across AWS, GCP, and SITE.
• You understand the existing database architecture, operational workflows, monitoring, and recovery procedures.
• You’ve built strong working relationships with the database team, Cloud Engineering, SRE, and development teams.
• You’ve identified the most significant risks and improvement opportunities across availability, performance, backup, and recovery.
• By day 60:
• You’re independently handling assigned database administration and troubleshooting activities.
• You’ve reviewed backup configurations and started validating recovery procedures for critical databases.
• You’ve identified gaps in database monitoring and alerting, including replication lag, WAL contention, autovacuum, and table bloat.
• You’re contributing to database performance improvements and operational documentation.
• By day 90:
• Critical database restore tests have been completed or are progressing against an agreed recovery-testing plan, with gaps documented and corrective actions defined.
• Key database failure scenarios are documented through practical runbooks.
• Database monitoring and alerting improvements have been implemented for prioritized operational risks.
• You’re actively contributing to database reliability, performance, and incident-prevention initiatives.
• By day 120:
• A safer database change-management process is in place, including appropriate reviews, DDL auditing, and rollback planning.
• A practical PostgreSQL major-upgrade roadmap has been developed, with compatibility and migration risks assessed.
• The high-availability approach for the SITE database environment has been evaluated and documented.
• Database size and activity metrics are available to support the per-customer cost-allocation initiative.