Data Administrator (3–11+ Years Experience)

Job Title: Data Administrator

Experience: 3–11+ Years

Location: Riyadh, Saudi

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled Data Administrator to manage, maintain, and optimize enterprise data platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and data integrity. The ideal candidate will have experience administering relational databases, in-memory data stores, and modern data analytics or AI platforms while supporting data governance, backup and recovery, and performance optimization initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain enterprise databases and data platforms.
• Ensure database availability, security, performance, and reliability.
• Perform database installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and migrations.
• Implement backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
• Monitor database health, troubleshoot issues, and optimize system performance.
• Collaborate with application developers, data engineers, and infrastructure teams.
• Support data governance, data quality, and compliance initiatives.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and system configurations.
• Participate in capacity planning and implementation of new data technologies.

Must Have Skills

• Experience with PostgreSQL OR Microsoft SQL Server OR MySQL OR Oracle Database.
• Experience with Redis OR Memcached OR Apache Ignite for in-memory data management and caching.
• Experience with Dataiku DSS OR Vertex AI OR Azure Machine Learning OR Amazon SageMaker OR Databricks.
• Database Administration AND Performance Tuning AND Backup & Recovery AND High Availability AND Disaster Recovery.
• Database Security AND User Access Management AND Data Integrity AND Capacity Planning.
• SQL AND Database Monitoring AND Query Optimization.
• Experience with Linux OR Windows Server administration.
• Familiarity with Git AND GitHub OR GitLab OR Bitbucket.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

Good to Have Skills

• Experience with Docker OR Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms AWS OR Azure OR Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Familiarity with ETL OR ELT tools such as Informatica OR Talend OR Apache NiFi OR SSIS.
• Experience with monitoring tools Prometheus OR Grafana OR Zabbix OR Nagios.
• Knowledge of scripting using Python OR Bash OR PowerShell.
• Understanding of Data Governance AND Data Quality AND Master Data Management (MDM).
• Familiarity with CI/CD AND DevOps practices.
• Experience supporting analytics, reporting, or AI/ML workloads.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• 3–11 years of experience in database administration or data platform administration.
• Experience managing production database environments with high availability and performance requirements.
• Relevant certifications in PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, cloud platforms, or database technologies are a plus.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.