Database Administrator ( Mid-Level DBA)

Datamatics-Global-Services-Ltd; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Datamatics-Global-Services-Ltd is seeking a Database Administrator (DBA) with 3–5 years of hands-on experience to manage and support enterprise database environments. You will handle administration, monitoring, maintenance, backup and recovery, security, HA/DR, and overall database support.

The role requires practical experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and/or MySQL in production environments to ensure performance, availability, reliability, and security.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on Database Administration experience.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, SQL Server and/or MySQL in production environments.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch and maintain database systems.
• Manage backup, recovery, replication and DR processes.
• Monitor performance, capacity, availability and health.
• SQL query optimization and performance tuning.
• Database security, users, roles and access management.
• Troubleshoot incidents and support migrations/upgrades.
• Maintain documentation and collaborate with development teams.

Responsibilities

• Perform database administration, monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain database systems.
• Manage backups, recovery, replication and DR processes.
• Monitor performance, capacity, availability and health.
• Tune SQL queries and overall database performance.
• Control security, users, roles, and access.
• Troubleshoot incidents and support migrations/patching.
• Ensure data integrity, reliability and availability.
• Maintain documentation, procedures and configurations.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams on database initiatives.
• Participate in failover and DR testing and maintenance.
• Support production, development, and testing environments.

Skills

Database Administration

PostgreSQL

Oracle Database

SQL Server

MySQL

Backup and Recovery

High Availability

Disaster Recovery

SQL Query Optimization

Performance Tuning

Monitoring

Security Administration

Access Management

Migration and Upgrade

Patch Management

Production Environments

Documentation

Tools

Grafana

Zabbix

Nagios

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Patroni

PgPool

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.