Senior Database Administrator - Oracle & SQL Server

Saudi Railway Company; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 210,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Saudi Railway Company in Riyadh seeks an experienced Database Administrator Senior Specialist to manage and maintain its enterprise database platforms. The role focuses on Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server environments, ensuring availability, performance, security, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management.

You will collaborate with Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Applications, Project Management, and vendors to support critical business systems, with a strong emphasis on high availability,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 6 years of hands-on database administration experience.
• 3+ years of work experience with databases.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, monitor, and support Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database environments.
• Manage production, disaster recovery, testing, development, and other non-production database environments.
• Design and maintain highly available and resilient database environments.
• Ensure database availability, performance, recoverability, and compliance with business RTO and RPO requirements.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, migrate, and maintain database platforms.
• Manage Oracle RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, and other Oracle database technologies.
• Administer Microsoft SQL Server high-availability and disaster recovery technologies, including Always On Availability Groups and Failover Clustering.
• Monitor database availability, capacity, utilization, sessions, queries, storage, and overall performance.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and perform SQL, query, indexing, memory, storage, and database parameter tuning.
• Develop, implement, and test database backup and recovery procedures.
• Participate in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning, testing, failover, failback, and recovery exercises.
• Perform database creation, configuration, cloning, copying, refreshes, migrations, upgrades, and decommissioning.
• Manage database user accounts, roles, privileges, and access permissions.
• Implement database security controls, including authentication, authorization, auditing, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and security hardening.
• Ensure database platforms comply with IT policies, cybersecurity requirements, data protection requirements, and applicable national regulations.
• Review database vulnerabilities and coordinate remediation, patching, and configuration changes.

Skills

Oracle DBA

SQL Server DBA

Oracle RAC

Data Guard

RMAN

Always On

Failover Clustering

Backup & Restore

Performance Tuning

Security & Compliance

BC/DR

Migration & Upgrades

RTO / RPO

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/IT or related field

Master’s degree (advantage)

Job description

Saudi Railway Company in Riyadh seeks an experienced Database Administrator Senior Specialist to manage and maintain its enterprise database platforms. The role focuses on Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server environments, ensuring availability, performance, security, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management.

You will collaborate with Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Applications, Project Management, and vendors to support critical business systems, with a strong emphasis on high availability,