About the Job
The company is currently looking for a Database Administrator for our Bahrain operations with the following skillsets & terms and conditions:
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Requirements
- Minimum 3 years in a database-related role
- Experience supporting AWS
- Proficient in database administration, backup/recovery, and performance tuning
- Understanding of cloud database operations (RDS snapshots, scaling, monitoring)
- Hands-on with Linux administration and shell scripting
- Familiarity with DevOps tools and deployment
- Basic knowledge of data warehousing and BI workflows
- Experience with SQL skills for reporting optimization
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and documentation skills
- Good teamwork and communication skills with cross-functional teams
- Availability outside of working hours to resolve emergency issues promptly
Educational Qualification & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field
Roles & Responsibilities
- Create, configure, and maintain databases for production, development, and test environments
- Perform database installation, configuration, and patching for Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MySQL
- Support AWS RDS administration including parameter tuning, backups, and maintenance tasks
- Execute daily health checks, performance monitoring, and alert analysis
- Perform backup and recovery operations
- Manage database users, roles, and permissions following least-privilege principles
- Implement and monitor security controls including encryption, access logging, and password policies
- Assist in migrations and upgrades
- Support incident management by troubleshooting performance and availability issues
- Participate in capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization activities
- Assist in documentation of configurations, recovery steps, and maintenance tasks
- Ensure data integrity and consistency through validation and constraint management
- Work closely with system, application, and development teams to support database-related activities
- Follow established change management and release processes
- Participate in DR tests and failover simulations
- Support ETL jobs and reporting databases
- Maintain consistency between transactional and analytical systems
- Continuously learn new tools and technologies in the AWS and open-source database ecosystem
