Overview
Senior Database Administrator - Dubai "On Site " at BlackStone eIT — Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 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.
Full job 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.
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