Senior Production DBA — Performance & DR (Oman)

Talent Arabia; Oman; On-site; OMR 28,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Arabia is seeking an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) in Oman to own production database environments, optimize performance, and manage backups and disaster recovery. The role requires 5–10 years of hands-on database experience and a strong academic background in computer science or database management.

You will collaborate with software engineering squads, systems administrators, and IT leadership to ensure data availability, high availability architectures, secure access, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Database Management, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5–10 years of professional working experience as a Database Administrator (DBA) in enterprise environments.
• Strong practical expertise in production database administration, configuration, and performance tuning.
• Deep knowledge of relational database management systems (RDBMS) such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server.
• Professional availability for full-time employment in Oman.

Responsibilities

• Monitor production database performance continuously, identifying bottlenecks, slow queries, and resource constraints.
• Manage comprehensive database backup schedules, recovery procedures, and point-in-time restoration drills.
• Perform advanced database administration, configuration, patching, and technical support activities across enterprise database servers.
• Ensure smooth database maintenance windows, high availability configurations, and zero-downtime architecture principles.
• Optimize SQL queries, execution plans, indexing strategies, and database storage parameters for peak performance.
• Manage user accounts, security roles, privilege assignments, and database access governance in compliance with security standards.
• Troubleshoot database errors, connection failures, deadlocks, and replication issues with rapid root‑cause remediation.
• Collaborate proactively with software developers and backend engineers on schema design and database migration scripts.
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation, database topology diagrams, backup logs, and disaster recovery runbooks.
• Support capacity planning, resource forecasting, and hardware upgrade evaluations for database infrastructure.

Skills

Database administration

Performance tuning

Backup & recovery

SQL optimization

Security governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Database Management

Tools

PostgreSQL

Oracle

MySQL

SQL Server

Job description

Talent Arabia is seeking an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) in Oman to own production database environments, optimize performance, and manage backups and disaster recovery. The role requires 5–10 years of hands-on database experience and a strong academic background in computer science or database management.

You will collaborate with software engineering squads, systems administrators, and IT leadership to ensure data availability, high availability architectures, secure access, and