Database Administrator: SQL & MongoDB Performance Lead

Mutakamela Insurance; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Mutakamela Insurance is seeking a Database Administrator to manage, optimize, and secure our database systems. The role requires extensive SQL Database Administration experience (including monitoring, backups, and performance tuning) and MongoDB expertise where possible.

The candidate will ensure reliability, integrity, and availability of database systems, implement efficient backup and recovery strategies, and monitor performance to support operations across platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 4+ years in database administration.
• Experience with SQL Server and MongoDB.
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery.
• Familiarity with backup/recovery, monitoring, and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Monitor health and performance of SQL databases.
• Implement backup and recovery plans for SQL databases.
• Configure and maintain SQL Server instances, databases, and related components.
• Manage database security policies and access.
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and optimize server performance.
• Configure Always On AG, replication, and clustering for high availability.
• Develop automation scripts for database tasks (backup, maintenance, monitoring).

Skills

SQL

Database administration

Troubleshooting

System documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or related field

Tools

SSMS

Always On Availability Groups

Replication

Clustering

SQL Profiler

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

MongoDB Monitoring Service

Nagios

Zabbix

PowerShell

Bash

Linux

Windows Server

Job description

Mutakamela Insurance is seeking a Database Administrator to manage, optimize, and secure our database systems. The role requires extensive SQL Database Administration experience (including monitoring, backups, and performance tuning) and MongoDB expertise where possible.

The candidate will ensure reliability, integrity, and availability of database systems, implement efficient backup and recovery strategies, and monitor performance to support operations across platforms.