Database Administrator ( Mid-Level DBA)

Datamatics Technologies; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 134,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

Datamatics Technologies in Riyadh invites a skilled Database Administrator to join our onsite team. The role focuses on managing enterprise databases with 3-5 years of hands-on experience across PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL, ensuring performance, security, and high availability.

You will monitor, backup, recover, and optimize databases, implement DR testing, and collaborate with development and operations to support production, development, and testing environments.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of hands-on Database Administration experience.
• Hands-on with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, or MySQL.
• Installation, configuration, and administration of DB systems.
• Backup, recovery, replication, and DR planning.
• Security, users, roles, and access management.
• Strong troubleshooting, 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, availability, and health.
• Tune SQL queries and optimize database performance.
• Manage security, users, roles, and access controls.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams.
• Support production, development, and testing databases.

Skills

Database Administration

PostgreSQL

Oracle Database

SQL Server

MySQL

Backup & Recovery

HA & DR

SQL Tuning

Security Administration

Scripting (Shell/Python)

Monitoring & Performance

Documentation

Communication

Tools

Grafana

Nagios

Zabbix

Oracle Enterprise Manager

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