Dubai Senior DBA - Performance, Security & HA

BlackStone eIT; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

BlackStone eIT is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to manage enterprise database platforms, ensure health and performance, and coordinate backup/recovery activities. You will work on Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MongoDB environments with a focus on high availability and security.

Responsibilities include incident diagnosis, maintenance, patching, and alignment with release schedules, audits, and runbooks.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of enterprise database administration experience.
• Strong experience with Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MongoDB.
• Knowledge of performance tuning, backup/recovery and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Administer approved database platforms, instances, storage, jobs, configurations and access controls.
• Monitor database health, performance, capacity, availability and replication/high-availability components.
• Diagnose incidents, blocking, failed jobs, performance degradation and data-platform dependencies.
• Manage backup, recovery, maintenance, patching and upgrade activities with other teams.
• Support database security, privileged access, audit logging and periodic access reviews.
• Maintain inventories, configuration baselines, procedures, diagrams and runbooks.
• Provide controlled support to releases, integrations, reporting and UAT activities.
• Document root causes, risks and recommendations; material changes require approval.

Skills

Database administration

Oracle

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Performance tuning

Backup and recovery

High availability

Security and access control

Audit logging

Job description

BlackStone eIT is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to manage enterprise database platforms, ensure health and performance, and coordinate backup/recovery activities. You will work on Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MongoDB environments with a focus on high availability and security.

Responsibilities include incident diagnosis, maintenance, patching, and alignment with release schedules, audits, and runbooks.