Database Administrator

Datamatics Technologies; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Datamatics Technologies seeks a skilled Database Administrator (DBA) with 5+ years of hands-on experience to manage and support enterprise database environments. The role covers PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL in production, focusing on performance, availability, security and reliability.

Onsite position based in Saudi Arabia. Collaboration with development, infrastructure and application teams is essential to ensure robust database operations and successful migrations and upgrades.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on database administration experience.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server or MySQL in production environments.
• Ability to ensure database performance, availability, reliability and security.
• Familiarity with HA/DR, backup and recovery processes.
• Scripting and automation knowledge across platforms.

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 initiatives.
• Participate in failover testing and disaster recovery testing.

Skills

Database administration

Performance tuning

Backup and recovery

Security management

Disaster recovery

Scripting

Python scripting

Tools

Oracle RAC

Oracle Data Guard

SQL Server Always On

SQL Server Failover Clustering

PostgreSQL Streaming Replication

PostgreSQL Patroni

PgPool

MySQL Replication

Oracle OEM

Grafana

Zabbix

Nagios

Linux Administration

Shell Scripting

PowerShell Scripting

Python Scripting

Job description

Nationality: Saudi National.Mandatory Saudi National.Location: Saudi Arabia.Work Mode: Onsite.Experience: Minimum 5 Years.Employment Type: Full-Time.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 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

Certifications

• Share Must-Have Skills5+ years of hands‑on Database Administration experience.
• Strong experience with one or more of the following database platforms:PostgreSQLOracle DatabaseMicrosoft SQL ServerMySQLDatabase 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.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Good communication and documentation skills.