Database Administrator

Datamatics Technologies; Makkah Region; On-site; SAR 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Datamatics Technologies is seeking a skilled Database Administrator with a minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience to manage and support enterprise database environments in a Saudi context.

The role covers database administration, monitoring, maintenance, backup and recovery, security management, high availability, disaster recovery, and production support across PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL environments. Collaboration with development and infra teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Database Administration experience.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL.
• Database installation, configuration, administration, maintenance.
• Backup and recovery management.
• HA/DR implementation and support.
• SQL query optimization and performance tuning.
• Monitoring, health checks, and capacity planning.
• Security administration and access management.
• Migration, upgrade, and patch management.

Responsibilities

• Perform database administration, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain database systems.
• Manage backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery processes.
• Monitor performance, capacity, availability, and overall health.
• Tune SQL queries and optimize database performance.
• Manage security, users, roles, permissions, and access controls.
• Troubleshoot incidents and production issues.
• Support migrations, upgrades, patching, and maintenance.
• Ensure data integrity, reliability, and availability.
• Maintain documentation and configurations.
• Collaborate with development, infra, and application teams.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Oracle Database

Microsoft SQL Server

MySQL

Backup & Recovery

High Availability

Performance Tuning

Security Administration

Database Monitoring

Disaster Recovery

Tools

Oracle RAC

Oracle Data Guard

SQL Server Always On

SQL Server Failover Clustering

PostgreSQL Streaming Replication

Patroni

PgPool

MySQL Replication

OEM

Grafana

Zabbix

Nagios

Job description

Important Note

This position is open only to Saudi Nationals. Saudi Citizenship is Mandatory. Applications from non-Saudi nationals will not be considered.

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Database Administrator DBA with a minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience managing and supporting enterprise database environments.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for database administration monitoring maintenance performance optimization backup and recovery security management high availability disaster recovery and database support activities.

The candidate should possess practical experience with PostgreSQL Oracle SQL Server and or MySQL in production environments and demonstrate the ability to ensure database performance availability reliability and security.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform database administration monitoring maintenance and troubleshooting activities
• Install configure upgrade patch and maintain database systems
• Manage database backup recovery replication and disaster recovery processes
• Monitor database performance capacity availability and overall health
• Perform SQL query optimization and database performance tuning
• Manage database security users roles permissions and access controls
• Troubleshoot and resolve database-related incidents and performance issues
• Support database migrations upgrades patching and maintenance activities
• Ensure data integrity reliability and availability
• Maintain database documentation procedures and configurations
• Collaborate with development infrastructure and application teams on database-related initiatives
• Participate in failover testing disaster recovery testing and maintenance activities
• Support production development and testing database environments

Good-to-Have Skills

• Oracle RAC Administration
• Oracle Data Guard
• SQL Server Always On Availability Groups
• SQL Server Failover Clustering
• PostgreSQL Streaming Replication
• PostgreSQL Patroni
• PgPool
• MySQL Replication
• Oracle Enterprise Manager
• OEM
• Grafana
• Zabbix
• Nagios
• or similar monitoring tools
• Linux Administration
• Shell Scripting
• PowerShell Scripting
• Python Scripting
• Azure
• AWS
• OCI
• or GCP Database Services
• DevOps and Automation experience
• Infrastructure as Code
• IaC
• ITIL Knowledge
• Oracle
• SQL Server
• PostgreSQL
• or MySQL
• Certifications

Must-Have Skills

• Must-Have Skills5+ years of hands-on Database Administration experience.
• Strong experience with one or more of the following database platforms:
• PostgreSQL
• Oracle Database
• Microsoft SQL Server
• MySQL
• Database installation, configuration, administration, and maintenance.
• Database backup and recovery management.
• Database replication technologies and administration.
• High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) implementation and support.
• SQL query optimization and performance tuning.
• Database monitoring, health checks, and capacity planning.
• Database troubleshooting and incident resolution.
• Database security administration and access management.
• User, role, permission, and privilege management.
• Database migration, upgrade, and patch management activities.
• Experience supporting production database environments.
• Experience supporting production database environments.