DBA ( Saudi National )

Oivan Group Oy; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Oivan Group Oy is seeking a Database Administrator with 2–5 years of production DBA experience to manage enterprise-scale PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL/MariaDB, and SQL Server platforms. You will ensure high availability, back up and recover, and perform migrations and tuning while supporting client operations on site in the Gulf region.

The role requires strong English and Arabic communication, a Saudi national, and coordination with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, IT, or related field.
• 2–5 years of DBA experience in production environments.
• Saudi national required.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, HA, replication, tuning, and migrations.
• Experience with backup tools such as pgBackRest, PBM, Percona XtraBackup, and SQL Server native tools.
• Excellent communication skills in English and Arabic.
• Working hours: 13:00–21:00, Sunday to Thursday, Saudi Arabia time.
• Ability to work within a cross-functional team and support client operations.

Responsibilities

• Manage PostgreSQL/Patroni, MongoDB replica sets, MySQL/MariaDB, and SQL Server Always On.
• Ensure high availability, replication, automated failover, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Perform performance tuning, indexing, upgrades, migrations, and patching.
• Implement security, access controls, auditing, and documentation.
• Provide support on client site.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call support and incident resolution.

Skills

DBA experience

English/Arabic communication

On-call support

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

MySQL/MariaDB

SQL Server

Patroni

pgBackRest

PBM

Percona XtraBackup

Job description

What We Need

We are seeking a Database Administrator (DBA) with 2 to 5 years of experience to support and operate enterprise-scale, mission-critical database platforms across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL/MariaDB, and Microsoft SQL Server.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in high availability, performance tuning, disaster recovery, replication, backup and recovery, database security, and production database operations.

What You’ll Do

Responsibilities

• Manage PostgreSQL/Patroni, MongoDB replica sets, MySQL/MariaDB, and SQL Server Always On.
• Ensure high availability, replication, automated failover, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Perform performance tuning, indexing, upgrades, migrations, and patching.
• Implement security, access controls, auditing, and documentation.
• Provide support on client site.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call support and incident resolution.

What You Have

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, IT, or related field.
• 2–5 years of DBA experience in production environments.
• Saudi national required.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, HA, replication, tuning, and migrations.
• Experience with backup tools such as pgBackRest, PBM, Percona XtraBackup, and SQL Server native tools.
• Excellent communication skills in English and Arabic.
• Working hours: 13:00–21:00, Sunday to Thursday, Saudi Arabia time.
• Ability to work within a cross-functional team and support client operations.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kubernetes database operators such as Zalando Patroni Operator or Percona Operators.
• Familiarity with Redis, Elasticsearch, or other NoSQL/time-series databases.
• Experience working in an ITIL-based environment.

What We Offer

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