Database Administrator (Saudi nationals preferred)
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About the Role
Oivan is looking for a Saudi Database Administrator with at least three years of experience in database management using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and related technologies. The role involves database lifecycle management, high-availability solutions, and performance optimization.
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Responsibilities
- Install, configure, upgrade, patch, migrate, and administer enterprise databases across multiple platforms including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL/MariaDB, and SQL Server
- Manage day to day database operations and ensure database platforms are stable, available, and production ready
- Design, implement, and maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions for database platforms
- Configure and support replication, failover, switchover, backup, and restore mechanisms
- Own backup and recovery strategy execution using tools such as pgBackRest and native database backup tools
- Monitor and optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing, execution plan analysis, monitoring, and capacity planning
- Troubleshoot production issues, identify bottlenecks, and improve database efficiency and scalability
- Implement and maintain database security controls including encryption, TLS/SSL, access controls, user/role management, auditing, and hardening
- Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and operations teams on migrations, deployments, troubleshooting, and production support
- Automate database administration and operational tasks using Shell/Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform, Git/GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines
Requirements
- At least three years of experience in database management activities using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and related frameworks
- Hands on experience in database installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, migration, and administration
- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL Patroni, pgbouncer, HAProxy, MongoDB Replica Sets, MySQL Galera Cluster, and SQL Server Always On Availability Groups
- Experience with High Availability, Disaster Recovery, replication, failover, and backup & recovery strategies
- Expertise in database performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, monitoring, capacity planning, and troubleshooting
- Strong experience in Database Security, Data Encryption, user and role management, access controls, auditing, and security hardening
- Automation Skills: Shell/Bash, Python, PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, Git/GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Windows and Linux administration
- Fluency in both Arabic and English
- Saudi nationality preferred
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What We Need
- At Oivan, we are looking for a Saudi Database Administrator with at least three years of experience in database management activities using frameworks such as PostgreSQL Patroni, pgbouncer, HAProxy, MongoDB.
- As an experienced DBA with a background in Agile Scrum methodologies, you will work directly in high impact projects to deliver high quality technical solutions.
- You will be based on site at our customer’s premises in Riyadh, KSA, and the position requires fluency in both Arabic and English.
What You'll Do
- Install, configure, upgrade, patch, migrate, and administer enterprise databases across multiple platforms, including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL/MariaDB, and SQL Server.
- Manage day to day database operations and ensure database platforms are stable, available, and production ready.
- Design, implement, and maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions for database platforms.
- Configure and support replication, failover, switchover, backup, and restore mechanisms to minimize downtime and data loss.
- Support enterprise HA/DR topologies and operational acceptance of resilient database environments.
- Own backup and recovery strategy execution using tools such as pgBackRest for PostgreSQL and native database backup tools for other engines.
- Validate restore procedures and ensure DR readiness through testing and operational support.
- Monitor and optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing, execution plan analysis, monitoring, and capacity planning.
- Troubleshoot production issues, identify bottlenecks, and improve database efficiency and scalability.
- Implement and maintain database security controls, including encryption at rest and in transit, TLS/SSL, access controls, user/role management, auditing, and hardening.
- Support secure database operations aligned with enterprise operational and security best practices.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and operations teams on migrations, deployments, troubleshooting, and production support.
What You Have
- Hands on experience in database installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, migration, and administration.
- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL Patroni, pgbouncer, HAProxy, MongoDB Replica Sets, MySQL Galera Cluster, and SQL Server Always On Availability Groups.
- Experience with High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), replication, failover, and backup & recovery strategies using pgBackRest (PostgreSQL) and native database backup tools.
- Expertise in database performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, monitoring, capacity planning, and troubleshooting.
- Strong experience in Database Security, Data Encryption (TDE, TLS/SSL, encryption at rest/in transit), user and role management, access controls, auditing, and security hardening.
- Automation Skills: Shell/Bash, Python, PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, Git/GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps).
- Experience with Windows and Linux administration, database monitoring tools, and enterprise operational best practice.
- Good communication, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills.
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