Senior Database Administrator — Multi-Platform Expert

Datamatics Technologies; Makkah Region; On-site; SAR 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Datamatics Technologies is seeking a skilled Database Administrator with a minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience to manage and support enterprise database environments in a Saudi context.

The role covers database administration, monitoring, maintenance, backup and recovery, security management, high availability, disaster recovery, and production support across PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL environments. Collaboration with development and infra teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Database Administration experience.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL.
• Database installation, configuration, administration, maintenance.
• Backup and recovery management.
• HA/DR implementation and support.
• SQL query optimization and performance tuning.
• Monitoring, health checks, and capacity planning.
• Security administration and access management.
• Migration, upgrade, and patch management.

Responsibilities

• Perform database administration, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain database systems.
• Manage backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery processes.
• Monitor performance, capacity, availability, and overall health.
• Tune SQL queries and optimize database performance.
• Manage security, users, roles, permissions, and access controls.
• Troubleshoot incidents and production issues.
• Support migrations, upgrades, patching, and maintenance.
• Ensure data integrity, reliability, and availability.
• Maintain documentation and configurations.
• Collaborate with development, infra, and application teams.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Oracle Database

Microsoft SQL Server

MySQL

Backup & Recovery

High Availability

Performance Tuning

Security Administration

Database Monitoring

Disaster Recovery

Tools

Oracle RAC

Oracle Data Guard

SQL Server Always On

SQL Server Failover Clustering

PostgreSQL Streaming Replication

Patroni

PgPool

MySQL Replication

OEM

Grafana

Zabbix

Nagios

Job description

Datamatics Technologies is seeking a skilled Database Administrator with a minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience to manage and support enterprise database environments in a Saudi context.

The role covers database administration, monitoring, maintenance, backup and recovery, security management, high availability, disaster recovery, and production support across PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL environments. Collaboration with development and infra teams is essential.