Database Administrator

Company Overview

Contract Type

• The role is offered as a 3-month renewable contract.

Work Location

• The stated work location is Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Job Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Administer enterprise database systems and monitor availability, performance, capacity, and health.
• Perform backup, restoration, recovery, disaster-recovery, performance-tuning, query-optimization, and indexing activities.
• Manage security, access controls, user administration, upgrades, patches, migrations, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Resolve incidents and operational problems, conduct root-cause analysis, and support changes across development, testing, staging, and production.
• Maintain procedures, standards, architecture documentation, configurations, and recovery processes.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, network, security, and development teams and participate in on-call support when required.

Required Skills and Experience

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field is required.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator or in a similar database-focused role is required.
• Strong enterprise database administration experience and hands-on experience with one or more major database platforms are required.
• Strong SQL, database architecture, relational database, backup, recovery, replication, disaster-recovery, and performance-tuning knowledge is required.
• Knowledge of high availability, database monitoring, troubleshooting, security, access management, and data protection is required.
• Production or mission-critical environment experience, analytical and problem-solving skills, and communication and documentation skills are required.

Preferred Experience

• Oracle RAC, Data Guard, SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, replication, clustering, cloud database platforms, Linux or Unix, and Windows Server experience are advantageous.
• Automation and scripting with Shell, PowerShell, or Python, database migration and modernization experience, and relevant database or cloud certifications are advantageous.

Support Schedule

• Participation in on-call or after-hours support may be required.