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