Position: Senior Database Administrator
Contract Duration: 3 Months (with possibility of extension)
Joining: ASAP
We are seeking a Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to lead database administration and data-layer operations for the Fan-ID platform, supporting a sporting event in Saudi Arabia.
This role is critical to ensuring secure, highly available, and scalable databases that support complex integrations, real-time workloads, and peak traffic during live events. The DBA will define database architecture standards, manage multi-environment and multi-region deployments, and ensure data reliability across mobile, web, backend, CRM, and third-party systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Own database administration and data-layer operations for Fan-ID applications, including CRM, Azure, and multiple database technologies
- Design, implement, and maintain relational and non-relational databases
- Ensure databases are secure, highly available, and scalable, capable of handling high-traffic live event workloads
- Define and implement database architecture standards and best practices
- Design and maintain logical and physical data models
- Support multi-environment and multi-region database strategies
- Optimize database performance via:
- Query tuning and indexing
- Execution plan analysis
- Data model optimization
- Design and manage High Availability (HA) configurations, replication, failover, backup, restore, and Disaster Recovery (DR) plans
- Implement and enforce database security best practices
- Collaborate with application, integration, security, and DevOps teams for end-to-end data reliability
- Plan and execute database-focused testing, including:
- Performance and load testing
- Failover and recovery testing
- Backup and restore validation
- Data integrity and consistency checks
Required Experience & Skills
- Hands-on experience as a Database Administrator in production environments
- Strong expertise with relational databases:
- SQL Server
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- MySQL
- Experience with NoSQL databases:
- Cosmos DB
- MongoDB
- Equivalent platforms
- Solid experience with database performance tuning and optimization
- Proven experience implementing:
- High Availability (HA)
- Replication and failover strategies
- Disaster recovery (DR) plans
- Experience supporting large-scale, high-traffic platforms
- Understanding of event-driven and microservices-based architectures from a data perspective
- Hands-on experience with cloud-hosted databases:
- Azure (preferred)
- AWS
- GCP
Nice-to-Have
- Experience with identity platforms, ticketing systems, or large event ecosystems
- Familiarity with real-time systems and live-event traffic patterns
- Exposure to DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices
