Database Administrator (DBA) | KSA Nationals Only

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

Job summary

Datamatics Technologies is seeking an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) for an onsite role in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The candidate will manage and support enterprise database environments across PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL with a focus on performance, security, availability, and disaster recovery.

The role demands at least 5 years of hands-on DBA experience, strong technical skills, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data integrity and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Database Administration experience.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL in production environments.
• Proficient in database backup, recovery, and replication.
• Strong skills in SQL query optimization and performance tuning.
• Experience with HA and DR implementations and testing.
• Ability to manage database security, users, roles, and access controls.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform database administration, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain database systems.
• Manage backup, recovery, replication, and DR processes.
• Monitor performance, capacity, and overall health of databases.
• Optimize SQL queries and tune database performance.
• Manage security, users, roles, and access controls.
• Troubleshoot incidents and support migrations/patching.
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams on DB initiatives.
• Participate in failover testing and DR exercises.
• Support production, development, and testing environments.

Skills

DBA experience

PostgreSQL

Oracle

SQL Server

MySQL

Database security

Performance tuning

Backup & DR

Tools

Grafana

Zabbix

Nagios

OEM

PgPool

PgBouncer

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.