Database Administrator (PostgreSQL & MySQL) Saudi only

Job description

Key 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.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Candidates should possess 5-10 years of experience as a Database Administrator and demonstrate an understanding of preventing data loss, diagnosing complex performance issues, planning high-risk changes, and building reliable systems under pressure. The ability to manage large, business-critical databases and balance operational stability with architectural improvement, automation, and scalability is essential.
• Technical Skills: 5+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL administration experience in production; experience with AWS Aurora, Amazon RDS, MySQL, and self-managed Linux databases; understanding of database performance tuning, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery; experience managing multi-terabyte databases, upgrades, and migrations; ability to automate database operations using Bash or Python.
• Database Resilience: Hands-on experience with backups, recovery, replication, and failover; ability to troubleshoot database incidents and minimize downtime; adherence to safe change-management practices and maintenance of rollback plans.
• Database Performance: Ability to troubleshoot slow queries, indexing, locking, and resource utilization; understanding of PostgreSQL internals and multi-tenant database challenges.
• Desired Attributes
• Takes ownership and maintains composure under pressure.
• Communicates clearly and collaborates effectively with engineering teams.
• Documents work and continuously improves database reliability.
• Preferred Qualifications (Non-Essential)
• 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.
• Saudi nationals only