Senior Database Administrator (DBA) | HA/DR Expert

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

Job summary

Datamatics-Global-Services-Ltd in Saudi Arabia is seeking a seasoned Database Administrator (DBA) with at least five years of hands-on experience to manage and support enterprise database environments.

The successful candidate will handle database administration, monitoring, maintenance, performance optimization, backup and restore, security management, high availability, disaster recovery, and related support activities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Database Administration experience.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and/or MySQL in production.
• Strong knowledge of backup, recovery, HA/DR, security, and performance tuning.
• Ability to collaborate with development, infrastructure, and application teams.
• Good communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform database administration, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain database systems.
• Manage database backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery processes.
• Monitor database performance, capacity, availability, and 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

Database Administration

SQL tuning

Backup and DR

High Availability

Monitoring & health checks

Security & access management

Production support

Documentation

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

PostgreSQL

Oracle Database

Microsoft SQL Server

MySQL

Job description

Datamatics-Global-Services-Ltd in Saudi Arabia is seeking a seasoned Database Administrator (DBA) with at least five years of hands-on experience to manage and support enterprise database environments.

The successful candidate will handle database administration, monitoring, maintenance, performance optimization, backup and restore, security management, high availability, disaster recovery, and related support activities.