Database Administrator – Infrastructure & Disaster Recovery

Department of Economy and Tourism; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Department of Economy and Tourism seeks a Database Administrator, Infrastructure & Disaster Recovery to manage enterprise databases across on‑premises and cloud environments, ensuring availability, performance and recoverability. You will oversee backups, DR testing, and security configurations while coordinating with Infrastructure and Cybersecurity teams to maintain resilient services.

The role requires 5+ years of hands‑on DB experience with SQL Server and Oracle, plus exposure to MySQL,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant database administration experience.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise databases (SQL Server, Oracle) and other DB platforms.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, patch and upgrade enterprise database platforms across on‑premises and cloud environments.
• Monitor availability, performance, workload and storage growth; investigate bottlenecks.
• Configure and maintain backup, restoration and recovery processes; validate recoverability.
• Maintain high availability, replication and disaster-recovery arrangements; participate in tests.
• Apply database security standards and manage users, roles and access controls.

Skills

Database administration

SQL Server

Oracle

MySQL

MongoDB

Redis

High availability

Backup & recovery

Security hardening

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields

Tools

RMAN

TDE

Azure SQL / Oracle databases

Kubernetes (CKA background)

Job description

JOB OBJECTIVE:

The Database Administrator, Infrastructure & Disaster Recovery is responsible for administering, maintaining, monitoring and securing the organisation’s enterprise database environments to ensure their availability, performance, integrity and recoverability. The Database Administrator manages database backup, restoration, high-availability and disaster-recovery arrangements, supports database upgrades and lifecycle activities, and coordinates with relevant technical teams to maintain reliable and resilient database services.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Core Functional Responsibilities & Subject Matter Expertise

Database Administration and Maintenance

• Install, configure, administer, patch and upgrade approved enterprise database platforms across on-premises and selected cloud-hosted environments.


• Manage database instances, schemas, storage allocation, system parameters, transaction logs, connectivity and database-level objects.


• Perform routine database health checks, integrity checks, index maintenance, statistics updates and operational housekeeping.


• Maintain accurate database inventories, configuration records, technical dependencies and operating procedures.


• Support database migrations, upgrades, consolidation and platform-modernisation initiatives.

Performance and Capacity Management

• Monitor database availability, performance, workload, resource utilisation and storage growth.


• Investigate query-performance issues, locking, blocking, deadlocks, connection problems and recurring database bottlenecks.


• Analyse execution plans and recommend appropriate query, indexing, schema or database-configuration improvements.


• Maintain performance baselines for critical databases and forecast database compute, memory, storage and connection-capacity requirements.


• Coordinate infrastructure-capacity requirements with the relevant Systems, Storage and Cloud teams.

Backup, Restoration and Recovery

• Configure and maintain database backup and recovery arrangements in accordance with database criticality, retention requirements and approved Recovery Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives.


• Administer database-native backup, restoration and point-in-time recovery processes, and integrate databases with the approved enterprise backup platform.


• Monitor backup activities, investigate failures and ensure that identified backup or recoverability gaps are resolved.


• Conduct scheduled restoration and recovery tests and validate the availability, integrity and consistency of restored databases.


• Maintain backup schedules, recovery records and evidence of restoration and recovery testing.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery

• Configure, administer and monitor approved database high-availability, replication and disaster-recovery technologies.


• Monitor database replication, synchronisation, availability and failover readiness, and investigate related technical issues.


• Maintain database failover, failback, restoration and recovery procedures for critical database services.


• Participate in planned database switchovers, failover tests and disaster-recovery exercises.


• Validate database availability, integrity, connectivity, scheduled processing and replication following recovery.


• Measure recovery results against approved Recovery Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives and recommend improvements where gaps are identified.


• Coordinate database recovery activities and dependencies with Infrastructure, Applications, Network, Backup and Cybersecurity teams.

Database Security and Access

• Apply approved database-security standards, secure configuration baselines and least-privilege access controls.


• Administer database users, roles, privileged accounts, service accounts and database-level permissions.


• Support periodic access reviews, vulnerability assessments, security patching and audit-evidence requirements.


• Configure approved database auditing, logging and encryption controls in coordination with Cybersecurity.


• Identify and escale unsupported components, excessive privileges and material database-security risks.

Change, Automation and Lifecycle Management

• Review and implement database changes through the approved change-management process, including implementation, validation, rollback and recovery arrangements.


• Develop and maintain scripts to automate routine database monitoring, maintenance, backup validation and reporting activities.


• Maintain database scripts and configuration files within approved version-control repositories.


• Monitor database platform support lifecycles and plan required patching, upgrades, migrations or retirement activities.


• Identify database technical debt and recommend appropriate upgrade, consolidation, migration or modernisation actions.

Incident and Operational Support

• Investigate and resolve database availability, connectivity, performance, corruption, replication and recovery incidents.


• Conduct technical root-cause analysis for significant or recurring database incidents and implement corrective actions within the assigned scope.


• Restore database services in accordance with approved operational priorities and recovery procedures.


• Prepare database health, performance, capacity, backup and recovery-readiness reports.


• Participate in on-call or emergency technical-support arrangements where required.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields.


• Professional certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300), where Microsoft SQL Server or Azure SQL services form part of the database environment, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA); Oracle Database Administration Professional, where Oracle is a primary database platform; EDB PostgreSQL Associate or Professional, where PostgreSQL is extensively used; a recognised certification relating to the organisation’s enterprise backup and recovery platform; Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), where Azure infrastructure forms part of the role’s environment; and ITIL Foundation (current version) are advantageous.


• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in database administration, infrastructure database services, backup and recovery, high availability and disaster recovery within enterprise environments.


• Hands‑on experience administering enterprise database platforms, including Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, with practical exposure to MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and Redis.


• Experience with Oracle backup, recovery, security and high-availability technologies, including RMAN and Transparent Data Encryption (TDE).


• Practical experience managing enterprise database backup, restoration and recovery using CommIs sometimes?