Senior DBA - Onsite, Saudi Nationals Only

Datamatics Technologies; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Datamatics Technologies seeks a skilled Database Administrator (DBA) with 5+ years of hands-on experience to manage and support enterprise database environments. The role covers PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL in production, focusing on performance, availability, security and reliability.

Onsite position based in Saudi Arabia. Collaboration with development, infrastructure and application teams is essential to ensure robust database operations and successful migrations and upgrades.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on database administration experience.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server or MySQL in production environments.
• Ability to ensure database performance, availability, reliability and security.
• Familiarity with HA/DR, backup and recovery processes.
• Scripting and automation knowledge across platforms.

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 initiatives.
• Participate in failover testing and disaster recovery testing.

Skills

Database administration

Performance tuning

Backup and recovery

Security management

Disaster recovery

Scripting

Python scripting

Tools

Oracle RAC

Oracle Data Guard

SQL Server Always On

SQL Server Failover Clustering

PostgreSQL Streaming Replication

PostgreSQL Patroni

PgPool

MySQL Replication

Oracle OEM

Grafana

Zabbix

Nagios

Linux Administration

Shell Scripting

PowerShell Scripting

Python Scripting

Job description

Datamatics Technologies seeks a skilled Database Administrator (DBA) with 5+ years of hands-on experience to manage and support enterprise database environments. The role covers PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL in production, focusing on performance, availability, security and reliability.

Onsite position based in Saudi Arabia. Collaboration with development, infrastructure and application teams is essential to ensure robust database operations and successful migrations and upgrades.