Database DBA: PostgreSQL & MySQL on Multi-Cloud

Lucidya; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Lucidya is seeking a Database Administrator to own production database reliability across PostgreSQL and MySQL in AWS, GCP, and in-Kingdom hosting. You will partner with engineering, cloud, and reliability teams to reduce incidents, improve performance, and design resilient database architectures.

You will lead upgrades, migrations, backups, and disaster recovery planning for multi-terabyte environments while balancing stability and automation. This role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL administration in production.
• Experience with AWS Aurora, Amazon RDS, MySQL, and self-managed Linux databases.
• Understand database performance tuning, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience managing multi-terabyte databases, upgrades, and migrations.
• Can automate database operations using Bash or Python.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain PostgreSQL and MySQL databases across AWS, GCP, and self-managed environments.
• Monitor database performance, availability, and capacity.
• Optimize queries, indexing, and resource utilization.
• Manage backups, point-in-time recovery, and disaster recovery.
• Implement replication, high availability, and failover strategies.
• Plan upgrades, migrations, and safe schema changes.
• Maintain security, access controls, and auditing.
• Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, SRE, and Cloud teams to improve reliability.

Skills

PostgreSQL administration

AWS Aurora / RDS

MySQL

Self-managed Linux databases

Database performance tuning

Backups & DR

Automation (Bash/Python)

Job description

Lucidya is seeking a Database Administrator to own production database reliability across PostgreSQL and MySQL in AWS, GCP, and in-Kingdom hosting. You will partner with engineering, cloud, and reliability teams to reduce incidents, improve performance, and design resilient database architectures.

You will lead upgrades, migrations, backups, and disaster recovery planning for multi-terabyte environments while balancing stability and automation. This role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.