Database Administrator (DBA)

Datamatics Technologies; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Datamatics Technologies in Riyadh is seeking a Database Administrator (DBA) with 3-5 years of hands-on experience to manage and support enterprise database environments onsite.

You will optimize performance, ensure security, backup and disaster recovery, and collaborate with development and operations teams to keep data reliable and available.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on Database Administration experience.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, or MySQL in production.
• Proven ability to ensure data integrity, availability, and security.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication and documentation skills.

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.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Oracle Database

Microsoft SQL Server

MySQL

Database Backup & Recovery

HA & DR

SQL Query Optimization

Performance Tuning

Monitoring & Health Checks

Security Administration

User & Access Management

Migration & Upgrades

Patch Management

Production Support

Analytical Skills

Documentation

Communication

Tools

Grafana

Zabbix

Nagios

OEM

Azure

AWS

OCI

GCP

Terraform

Job description

Location: Saudi Arabia
Nationality: Saudi National (Mandatory)
Experience: 3-5 Years (Mid-Level)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Mode: Onsite

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Database Administrator (DBA) with 3-5 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

Must-Have Skills

• 3-5 years of hands-on Database Administration experience
• Strong experience with one or more of the following:
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle Database
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MySQL
• Database Installation, Configuration, and Administration
• Database Backup and Recovery
• Database Replication
• High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR)
• SQL Query Optimization
• Database Performance Tuning
• Database Monitoring and Health Checks
• Database Troubleshooting and Incident Resolution
• Database Security Administration
• User, Role, Permission, and Access Management
• Database Migration and Upgrade Activities
• Patch Management and Maintenance
• Experience supporting Production Database Environments
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good communication and documentation skills

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