Database Administrator

Job description

Role Overview

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.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience as a Database Administrator.
• Hands-on experience with backups, recovery, replication, and failover.
• Ability to troubleshoot database incidents and minimize downtime.
• Proficiency in safe change-management practices and maintaining rollback plans.
• Ability to troubleshoot slow queries, indexing, locking, and resource utilization.
• Understanding of PostgreSQL internals and multi-tenant database challenges.
• Demonstrated ownership, calm under pressure, clear communication, and effective collaboration with engineering teams.
• Commitment to documenting work and continuously improving database reliability.
• Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)
• 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

Work Environment

• This is a full-time position based in Riyadh. The role involves working with production PostgreSQL and MySQL environments across AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and in-Kingdom hosting environments. The Database Administrator will collaborate with various teams including engineering, cloud, and reliability to ensure platform stability and performance.