Senior Database Administrator

Job Description: Senior Database Administrator

Job Location

Doha, Qatar – Onsite

Employment Type

Direct Payroll

Experience Required

6–8 Years

Urgency

Immediate / Urgent Requirement

Candidate Location Requirement

Only candidates currently available in Qatar and able to work onsite will be considered.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to manage and support enterprise-wide database environments across production, development, instructional, and business-critical systems.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL, along with expertise in High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Performance Tuning, Database Security, Backup & Recovery, ETL, Data Integration, and Database Monitoring.

The role requires a proactive database professional capable of maintaining highly available, secure, scalable, and high-performing enterprise database systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain enterprise-wide relational databases supporting production, development, testing, and other business-critical systems.

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, monitor, and troubleshoot Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL environments.

• Perform database object and security administration, including:

  • Schemas
  • Tables
  • Tablespaces
  • Indexes
  • Views
  • Queries
  • Stored Procedures
  • User Roles
  • Profiles
  • Access Controls

• Monitor and optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, capacity planning, and resource optimization.

• Diagnose and resolve database and system issues while ensuring maximum availability and minimal downtime.

• Design, implement, and maintain High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), and Business Continuity solutions.

• Develop and manage database backup, recovery, restore, and retention strategies to ensure data integrity and availability.

• Monitor database audit logs, system logs, storage utilization, and disk space availability.

• Manage database security tools and controls to maintain a secure database environment.

• Perform routine database maintenance, health checks, patching, upgrades, and version management.

• Design and maintain Data Warehouses and Data Marts to support enterprise reporting and analytics.

• Develop and support ETL processes, data integration, and data migration between enterprise databases and third-party applications.

• Implement and support BI reporting and analytics solutions using modern tools.

• Provide database expertise for application enhancements, upgrades, and new system implementations.

• Develop data models, including Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), based on business and end-user requirements.

• Perform database capacity planning and storage management.

• Manage system executables, redo logs, archive logs, transaction logs, system data files, application data files, and index files.

• Ensure compliance with organizational policies and procedures related to data integrity, security, and access management.

• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and business teams to support enterprise systems.

• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, database standards, and recovery plans.

• Evaluate and implement modern database technologies, automation tools, AI tools, and Generative AI solutions, where applicable.

• Perform other reasonable duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or another relevant technology-related field from an accredited institution.

Experience

• 6–8 years of hands-on experience in Database Administration, Database Engineering, or Enterprise Database Support.
• Experience supporting production, development, testing, and Disaster Recovery environments.
• Experience working in enterprise-scale, high-availability environments.

Mandatory Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with:

  • Oracle Database Administration
  • Microsoft SQL Server Administration
  • PostgreSQL Administration

• Experience in database installation, configuration, administration, patching, upgrades, and migrations.

• Strong knowledge of:

  • Database Performance Tuning
  • Query Optimization
  • Index Optimization
  • Capacity Planning
  • Database Monitoring
  • Backup & Recovery
  • Database Security
  • User and Access Management

• Experience implementing and managing:

  • High Availability (HA)
  • Disaster Recovery (DR)
  • Business Continuity (BCP)

• Experience with database replication and data synchronization technologies.

• Strong understanding of database storage, disk management, log management, and data file management.

• Experience with ETL, Data Integration, Data Migration, Data Warehousing, and Data Marts.

• Experience in database security, auditing, monitoring, and compliance.

• Knowledge of data modelling and Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs).

• Experience integrating enterprise databases with third-party applications and systems.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Power BI or other Business Intelligence and reporting tools.

• Exposure to:

  • Data Lakes
  • Modern Data Platforms
  • Cloud Databases
  • AI Tools
  • Generative AI

• Experience with enterprise database automation and scripting.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Microsoft Azure, or AWS.

• Experience with system design and enterprise architecture concepts.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will be a hands-on Senior Database Administrator with strong expertise across Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. The candidate should have proven experience supporting mission-critical enterprise databases and implementing robust High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Backup & Recovery, Security, Performance Tuning, and Data Integration solutions.

The candidate must currently be available in Qatar and willing to work onsite in Doha.

Important Keywords for Sourcing

Oracle DBA, Oracle Database Administrator, SQL Server DBA, MSSQL DBA, PostgreSQL DBA, Database Administrator, Senior DBA, Database Engineer, Database Architect, High Availability, HA, Disaster Recovery, DR, Business Continuity, BCP, Backup Recovery, Performance Tuning, Database Security, Database Monitoring, Oracle RAC, Data Guard, SQL Server Always On, PostgreSQL, ETL, Data Warehouse, Data Mart, Data Integration, Data Modelling, ERD, Power BI, Data Lake, OCI, Azure, AWS.

Desired Candidate Profile

Key Result Areas:

• Administer the campus wide relational database for production, instructional, and development systems, collectively described as the Enterprise Computing Systems.
• Perform database object and security administration such as creating indexes, schemas, table spaces, views, queries, stored procedures, user roles and profiles, and control and monitor data access.
• Diagnose and correct database and system problems while maintaining high availability for Enterprise Systems.
• Design and maintain data warehouse and data marts with ETL tools.
• Design, develop, implement, tune, plan capacity and recover Enterprise Systems databases.
• Provide data modelling such as entity relationship diagrams for new systems to meet end-user requirements.
• Provide database expertise to add or modify tables, fields, indexes and stored procedures as needed for additional system functionality or upgrades to Enterprise Systems on campus.
• Ensure that the database is backed up and that routine database maintenance and administration is done in a manner that provides data integrity and is consistent with high availability performance.
• Ensure databases are always updated to the latest stable version
• Manage, and monitor the current database deployed security tools to ensure high database security maintained
• Monitor audit logs and other logs and ensure disk space availability.
• Implement ETL and BI reporting using latest tools
• Develop and monitor compliance with policies and procedures controlling the integrity of and access to data.
• Provide for data integration between Enterprise System databases and other third-party systems as needed to maintain the integrity of the Enterprise Computer Systems and ongoing campus system user needs.
• Perform disk management for the installation and configuration of database management system software.
• Analyse and determine the optimal location of system executables, redo and manage log files, manage system data files, application data files and index files.
• Other reasonable tasks as assigned by supervisor

Minimum Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

·                Bachelor’s Degree in a technology related field from an Accredited College or University

·                6-8 years of academic and research application development experience

·                Experience in installing, configuring, fine tuning, and managing Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL

·                Expertise in developing, implementing and maintaining disaster recovery and business continuity operations for enterprise data bases

·                Experience with Power BI, DataMart’s, Data Lake is a plus

·                AI Tools and Gen AI knowledge is a plus

·                Experience with system design concepts