Saudi National Senior Database Administrator

Datamatics-Global-Services-Ltd; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Datamatics-Global-Services-Ltd in Saudi Arabia is seeking an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) with at least 5 years of hands-on DB management. You will handle administration, monitoring, performance tuning, backup/recovery, security, HA/DR, and production support for PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL in enterprise environments.

The role is onsite in Jeddah, Saudi nationals only, with a strong emphasis on reliability, data integrity, and collaboration with development and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Database Administration experience.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and/or MySQL in production.
• Ability to manage backups, DR, HA, and performance tuning.
• Strong security, monitoring, and capacity planning.
• Good communication and documentation skills.
• Experience with migrations and patching in production.

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.

Skills

5+ years DBA experience

PostgreSQL

Oracle Database

Microsoft SQL Server

MySQL

Database installation/maintenance

Backup and recovery

HA & DR

SQL query tuning

Monitoring & health checks

Security & access management

Data migration/patch management

Production support

Communication & documentation

Problem solving

Tools

Grafana

Zabbix

Nagios

Job description

Datamatics-Global-Services-Ltd in Saudi Arabia is seeking an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) with at least 5 years of hands-on DB management. You will handle administration, monitoring, performance tuning, backup/recovery, security, HA/DR, and production support for PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL in enterprise environments.

The role is onsite in Jeddah, Saudi nationals only, with a strong emphasis on reliability, data integrity, and collaboration with development and