Database Administrator (DBA) | KSA Nationals Only

Datamatics Technologies; Dammam; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Datamatics Technologies is seeking an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) in Saudi Arabia. The role requires a minimum of five years of hands-on experience in managing enterprise database environments, including PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL in production settings.

You will oversee performance, security, backups, DR, and high availability across environments. Qualified candidates will monitor and optimize databases, implement replication and failover strategies, and collaborate

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on database administration experience.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, SQL Server, or MySQL in production environments.
• Knowledge of backup/recovery, replication, HA and DR implementations.
• SQL query optimization and performance tuning.
• Database security, user/roles/permissions management and access controls.
• Experience with monitoring, health checks, and capacity planning.
• Ability to troubleshoot incidents and collaborate with dev/infra teams.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Analytical and problem solving

Communication and documentation

Database administration

Production experience

Tools

PostgreSQL

Oracle Database

Microsoft SQL Server

MySQL

Grafana

Zabbix

Nagios

Linux

Shell scripting

PowerShell scripting

Python scripting

Cloud DB services (Azure/AWS/OCI/GCP)

Job description

Eligibility Requirement

• Nationality: Saudi National (Mandatory)
• 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 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.

Must-Have Skills

• 5+ 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.
• 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.