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Senior DBA

Unlock employer Dubai, United Arab Emirates Posted: 11 Apr 2026

Financial

  • Estimate: $80k - $120k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Office Only
  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Fluent

Position

The company has unified payments, payouts, and fintech on one worldwide platform, and we’re assembling the world’s best team to liberate global commerce. With offices in various locations including Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, Singapore, Iceland, London, Hong Kong, and the U.S., the opportunities at the company are limitless. We value straight talk, quick decisions, strong execution, and elegant solutions. Join us to build the future of fintech together.

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We are looking for an exceptional Senior DBA to help build and scale our global fintech infrastructure. If you have a passion for building highly scalable, distributed cloud systems—specifically architecting and managing MySQL clusters on AWS EC2—created with an “Everything As Code” mindset, we want you on our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Architect & Manage: Design, deploy, and manage highly available and distributed MySQL clusters on AWS EC2 instances.
  • Everything As Code: Drive automation in the DB domain, from infrastructure provisioning and configuration management to creating robustly scalable and monitored databases.
  • Strategy & High Availability: Develop database strategy for performance tuning, disaster recovery, and ensuring high availability in a global production environment.
  • Environment Ownership: Manage Development, Test, QA, and Production databases, implementing MySQL (and MongoDB) enhancements.
  • Capacity Planning: Anticipate scaling requirements for global growth and optimal performance.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with development teams to resolve issues, optimize queries, and adhere to best practices.
  • System Maintenance: Maintain configuration, version upgrades, deep Linux OS-level tuning, and patching.
  • Reliability: Handle periodic on-call duties for continuous system reliability and uptime.

Requirements:

  • Experience: 5+ years as a DBA in high-scale, high-transaction environments.
  • MySQL & Clustering: Proficiency with MySQL (version 8.x) and experience building highly available MySQL clusters on EC2 instances.
  • AWS Expertise: Understanding of AWS infrastructure related to database hosting (EC2, EBS, VPC networking, Security Groups, and IAM).
  • Linux Mastery: Strong knowledge of Linux, including performance tuning and troubleshooting.
  • Database Architecture: Experience with partitioning, replication topologies, security, and transactions.
  • Optimization: Knowledge of SQL programming, query optimization, and performance tuning.
  • Automation/IaC: 3+ years with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or CloudFormation).
  • NoSQL: Experience or knowledge of MongoDB.
  • Communication: Fluent in English.

Advantages:

  • Experience as a DevOps engineer in a large-scale environment.
  • BS in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
  • Strong experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
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