Senior Database Administrator - Dubai On Site

🏢 BlackStone eIT
📍 United Arab EmiratesFull-timeHybrid
📅 Posted: 6d ago🔄 Updated: 6d ago
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BlackStone eIT is seeking a Senior Database Administrator in Dubai, UAE. The role involves administering database platforms, monitoring health and performance, managing backup and recovery, supporting security and access controls, and maintaining documentation. Key responsibilities include diagnosing incidents, supporting application releases, and documenting root causes and recommendations. Requirements include a minimum of 6 years of enterprise database administration experience with strong proficiency in Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB. Candidates must demonstrate skills in performance tuning, backup/recovery, high availability, security, and capacity management. Experience with production controls, segregation of duties, auditable change management, and supporting UAE government or regulated data environments is highly desirable.
Required Skills
Information Technology
Cloud Security
Requirements
Minimum 6 years of enterprise database administration experience with strong skills in Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB. Demonstrable expertise in performance tuning, backup/recovery, high availability, security, and capacity management. Experience with production controls, segregation of duties, auditable change management, and supporting UAE government or regulated data environments, including TDRA-hosted environments, is preferred. Experience supporting hybrid and highly available database platforms is essential.
Description
Key Responsibilities Administer approved database platforms, instances, storage, jobs, configurations and access controls Monitor database health, performance, capacity, availability and replication/high-availabilitycomponents. Diagnose incidents, blocking, failed jobs, performance degradation and data-platform dependencies Manage approved backup, recovery, maintenance, patching and upgrade activities in coordination withother 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 approvalRequirements Minimum 6 years of enterprise database administration experience Strong experience in one or more of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MongoDB, with theability to support the confirmed estate. Demonstrable skills in performance tuning, backup/recovery, high availability, security and capacitymanagement. 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
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