Senior Database Administrator - Dubai "On Site "

Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Workplace: on_site

Employment Type: full

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Administer approved database platforms, instances, storage, jobs, configurations and access controls.

• Monitor database health, performance, capacity, availability and replication/high-availability

components.

• Diagnose incidents, blocking, failed jobs, performance degradation and data-platform dependencies.

• Manage approved backup, recovery, maintenance, patching and upgrade activities in coordination with

other teams.

• Support database security, privileged access, audit logging and periodic access reviews.

• Maintain database inventories, configuration baselines, procedures, diagrams and recovery runbooks.

• Provide controlled support to application releases, integrations, reporting and UAT activities.

• Document root causes, risks and recommendations; material changes remain subject to approval.

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years of enterprise database administration experience.

• Strong experience in one or more of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MongoDB, with the

ability to support the confirmed estate.

• Demonstrable skills in performance tuning, backup/recovery, high availability, security and capacity

management.

• Oracle OCP, Microsoft database certification or equivalent preferred.

• Strong understanding of production controls, segregation of duties and auditable change management.

• Previous experience supporting UAE government or regulated data environments.

• Working knowledge of TDRA-hosted database environments and access processes.

• Experience supporting hybrid and highly available database platforms.

• Database availability, backup and performance are managed against the confirmed baseline.

• Privileged access and changes remain controlled and auditable.

• Capacity and recoverability risks are identified and escalated early.

• Production support is coordinated without unapproved changes to business data.