Database Administrator
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🌟 We're Hiring: Database Administrator
📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)
🕒 Employment Type: Part-Time
💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior
🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
About Us We are a globally focused organization committed to reliable technology infrastructure, secure data management, and operational excellence. Our systems support business continuity, informed decision-making, and digital innovation. We value technical expertise, data integrity, accountability, and continuous improvement in maintaining robust and scalable information systems.
The Role We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Database Administrator to maintain, secure, and optimise database environments. The successful candidate will help ensure database availability, performance, integrity, and recoverability while supporting application teams and business operations. This role requires strong technical problem-solving skills, a proactive approach to security, and the ability to manage database systems in a remote working environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Install, configure, maintain, and upgrade database management systems in accordance with operational requirements.
- Monitor database performance, availability, capacity, and resource utilisation.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and optimise queries, indexes, schemas, and database configurations.
- Implement and maintain backup, restoration, replication, and disaster recovery procedures.
- Monitor database health, investigate incidents, troubleshoot errors, and resolve technical issues.
- Manage database users, roles, permissions, and access controls in line with security policies.
- Protect data integrity, confidentiality, and availability through appropriate security and maintenance practices.
- Support database migrations, integrations, deployments, and infrastructure changes.
- Collaborate with software developers, system administrators, cybersecurity teams, and business stakeholders.
- Maintain database documentation, configuration records, maintenance logs, and operational procedures.
- Conduct routine maintenance, patching, capacity planning, and recovery testing.
- Monitor database alerts and recommend improvements to reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Support compliance requirements, audit requests, and data retention policies where applicable.
- Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience in database administration, database engineering, or IT infrastructure preferred.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field preferred.
- Practical knowledge of relational database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, or Oracle.
- Understanding of SQL, query optimisation, indexing, database security, backup strategies, and recovery procedures.
- Familiarity with database monitoring, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery concepts.
- Experience with cloud database platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud is an advantage.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to document technical processes and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical teams.
- High standards of data confidentiality, accuracy, and security.
- Ability to work independently, prioritise incidents, and support distributed teams remotely.
- Flexible, fully remote, part-time working arrangements.
- Opportunities to manage and optimise critical database infrastructure.
- Exposure to modern database technologies, cloud platforms, and security practices.
- A collaborative environment that values technical excellence and continuous improvement.
- Opportunities for professional development and broader technical responsibilities.
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