Production Database Reliability Engineer

Lever, Inc.; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Infinite pl in Riyadh is seeking a Database Support Engineer to ensure production database availability, performance, and reliability. You will monitor health, perform health checks, troubleshoot connections, and participate in backup and recovery activities.

You will collaborate with DBAs, engineers, and cloud teams to maintain runbooks, validate changes, and optimize replication and query performance. This role focuses on stability, incident resolution, and proactive monitoring.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent.
• Database administration/support certification is advantageous.
• GCP Cloud SQL experience preferred.
• Experience supporting high-volume transactional platforms.
• Knowledge of database monitoring and observability platforms.

Responsibilities

• Monitor database availability, health, and performance.
• Perform routine database operational health checks.
• Investigate database connection and connection-pool issues.
• Monitor backup jobs and validate successful completion.
• Support database restore and recovery activities.
• Monitor database replication and identify synchronization issues.
• Investigate slow queries and database performance degradation.
• Review database logs and identify abnormal events.
• Monitor storage utilization and database capacity.
• Support user, role, and database access checks according to approved processes.
• Troubleshoot application-to-database connectivity issues.
• Support database incidents and root-cause analysis.
• Coordinate with DBAs, application teams, infrastructure teams, and cloud engineers.
• Maintain database operational runbooks and procedures.
• Validate database health following changes or releases.

Skills

Cloud SQL

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQL troubleshooting

Database availability monitoring

Backup and restore procedures

Replication concepts

Connection-pool troubleshooting

Slow-query identification

Database logs and diagnostics

Storage and performance monitoring

Database user/access administration

Capacity management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent

Job description

Infinite pl in Riyadh is seeking a Database Support Engineer to ensure production database availability, performance, and reliability. You will monitor health, perform health checks, troubleshoot connections, and participate in backup and recovery activities.

You will collaborate with DBAs, engineers, and cloud teams to maintain runbooks, validate changes, and optimize replication and query performance. This role focuses on stability, incident resolution, and proactive monitoring.