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This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a DBA Engineer in United Arab Emirates.
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Overview
This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company.
We are currently looking for a DBA Engineer in United Arab Emirates.
This is a high-impact database engineering role focused on ensuring the performance, reliability, and scalability of mission-critical SQL Server systems supporting global, high-traffic platforms.
You will be responsible for optimizing complex database environments, resolving performance bottlenecks under tight time constraints, and ensuring the stability of business-critical services.
The role requires deep technical expertise in SQL Server internals, strong analytical thinking, and the ability to operate in fast-paced, 24/7 production environments.
You will collaborate closely with backend, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to design efficient data storage architectures and improve system resilience.
Beyond operational support, you will also contribute to long-term database architecture decisions and scaling strategies.
This is a fully remote opportunity within a globally distributed, engineering-driven organization.
Accountabilities
- Optimize SQL Server performance across queries, indexes, stored procedures, and system resources (CPU, memory, disk), ensuring high availability and efficiency in production environments.
- Diagnose and resolve complex performance bottlenecks, including blocking, deadlocks, execution plan issues, and resource contention under tight SLAs.
- Perform advanced T-SQL development and optimization, including stored procedures, user-defined functions, triggers, and query tuning.
- Manage SQL Server administration tasks such as installations, upgrades, migrations, backups, recovery, monitoring, security, and integrity checks.
- Design, maintain, and support high availability and disaster recovery solutions including Always On Availability Groups, replication, and Log Shipping.
- Collaborate with DevOps, backend, and infrastructure teams to support deployments, incident resolution, and system improvements.
- Participate in architecture design discussions to improve scalability, data modeling, and long-term database strategy.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a DBA or database engineer with strong expertise in Microsoft SQL Server (2016-2019 strongly preferred).
- Deep knowledge of SQL Server internals, including indexing strategies, locking, isolation levels, transaction management, and tempdb optimization.
- Expert-level proficiency in T-SQL, with proven ability to optimize complex queries, stored procedures, and database logic.
- Strong experience with performance tuning tools such as SQL Profiler, Extended Events, Query Store, and DMVs/DMFs.
- Hands-on experience with high-load production systems, production incident troubleshooting, and performance root cause analysis.
- Solid understanding of HA/DR solutions including Always On Availability Groups, replication, and Log Shipping.
- Ability to analyze execution plans and identify architectural or structural database issues.
- Nice to have: experience with MongoDB, ClickHouse, PowerShell (dbatools), monitoring tools like Zabbix or Grafana, and Windows Server administration.
- Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to quickly understand and work with existing complex systems.
- Experience with 24/7 mission-critical environments is highly valued.
Benefits
- Fully remote full-time position with flexible working arrangements.
- 28 calendar days of annual vacation plus 7 wellness days for personal rest and recovery.
- Annual reimbursement for health-related expenses or private insurance up to $1,000.
- Budget for professional development, including 50% reimbursement for training, conferences, and industry events.
- Corporate discounts for English language learning programs.
- Provided equipment or home office/co-working reimbursement up to $1,000 every 3 years.
- Employee reward system with bonuses, redeemable for merchandise and team experiences.
- Referral bonuses up to $5,000 for successful candidate recommendations.
- Collaborative, globally distributed engineering culture with strong focus on technical excellence.
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Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company.
The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
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