Remote DB Reliability Engineer: Availability & Recovery

The Elite Job; Ras Al Khaimah; On-site; AED 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Professional development and training

Certification support

Career advancement in database and SRE

Collaborative engineering environment

Job summary

The Elite Job is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer – Availability and Recovery to ensure mission‑critical databases stay available, secure, and performant across on‑premises and cloud environments. You will design resilient architectures, implement backups and DR, optimize performance, and automate operational workflows in collaboration with DevOps, security, and application teams.

Ideal candidates have hands‑on experience with PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQL Server, NoSQL where relevant, and mastery

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical experience in a related field.
• Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases and DR/HA architectures.
• Proven ability to design, implement, and operate scalable database reliability solutions.
• Strong knowledge of backup, disaster recovery, and data protection practices.
• Familiarity with cloud-based database services and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, monitor, and maintain highly available database environments.
• Develop backup strategies, DR plans, and test recovery procedures.
• Optimize performance and capacity planning across distributed databases.
• Automate maintenance, monitoring, and remediation within CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead incident investigations and root cause analysis for database incidents.
• Collaborate with DevOps, security, and application teams to improve resilience.

Skills

Relational databases

Non-relational databases

High availability

Backup & recovery

Replication

Monitoring

Automation

Python

Bash

PowerShell

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud platforms

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/IT/SE/Engineering

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQL Server

Oracle

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

The Elite Job is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer – Availability and Recovery to ensure mission‑critical databases stay available, secure, and performant across on‑premises and cloud environments. You will design resilient architectures, implement backups and DR, optimize performance, and automate operational workflows in collaboration with DevOps, security, and application teams.

Ideal candidates have hands‑on experience with PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQL Server, NoSQL where relevant, and mastery