Resilient DB Architect & Disaster-Recovery Lead

Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism is seeking a Database Administrator, Infrastructure & Disaster Recovery to maintain, monitor and secure enterprise databases across on-premises and selected cloud-hosted environments. You will handle backups, disasters, performance, and upgrades, coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure availability and recoverability.

The role focuses on high-availability, disaster-recovery readiness, and secure database operations within a large

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, patch and upgrade database platforms across on-premises and cloud-hosted environments.
• Manage database instances, schemas, storage, parameters, logs, connectivity and objects.
• Perform health checks, integrity checks, index maintenance and housekeeping.
• Support migrations, upgrades, consolidation and modernization initiatives.
• Monitor availability, performance, workload and storage growth.
• Investigate query performance issues, locking and deadlocks; optimize queries and indexes.
• Configure and maintain backups, restoration and recovery procedures.
• Coordinate with Infrastructure, Applications and Cybersecurity teams for DR planning.

Job description

Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism is seeking a Database Administrator, Infrastructure & Disaster Recovery to maintain, monitor and secure enterprise databases across on-premises and selected cloud-hosted environments. You will handle backups, disasters, performance, and upgrades, coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure availability and recoverability.

The role focuses on high-availability, disaster-recovery readiness, and secure database operations within a large