We are seeking a Database Administrator (DBA) with 2 to 5 years of experience to support and operate enterprise-scale, mission-critical database platforms across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL/MariaDB, and Microsoft SQL Server.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience in high availability, performance tuning, disaster recovery, replication, backup and recovery, database security, and production database operations.
DBA ( Saudi National )
Riyadh, KSA
Full-time
Permanent employee
What We Need
What You'll Do
Responsibilities
- Manage PostgreSQL/Patroni, MongoDB replica sets, MySQL/MariaDB, and SQL Server Always On.
- Ensure high availability, replication, automated failover, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Perform performance tuning, indexing, upgrades, migrations, and patching.
- Implement security, access controls, auditing, and documentation.
- Provide support on client site.
- Participate in 24x7 on-call support and incident resolution.
What You Have
Requirements
Nice to Have
- Bachelor’s degree in CS, IT, or related field.
- 2–5 years of DBA experience in production environments.
- Saudi national required.
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, HA, replication, tuning, and migrations.
- Experience with backup tools such as pgBackRest, PBM, Percona XtraBackup, and SQL Server native tools.
- Excellent communication skills in English and Arabic.
- Working hours: 13:00–21:00, Sunday to Thursday, Saudi Arabia time.
- Ability to work within a cross-functional team and support client operations.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Kubernetes database operators such as Zalando Patroni Operator or Percona Operators.
- Familiarity with Redis, Elasticsearch, or other NoSQL/time-series databases.
- Experience working in an ITIL-based environment.