DBA

About us

Clients rely on us for laptop setup, Intune enrollment, backup monitoring and after-hours help when something breaks. Our technicians handle onsite and remote support for medical offices, accounting firms and manufacturers on fixed monthly contracts. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

Job summary

Saddleloop is looking for another DBA to keep our SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases backed up, patched, fast and secure. The company is based in Dubai, the UAE. The team is spread across multiple countries. We hire in the US through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Working hours follow Gulf time, Monday to Friday.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Set up and maintain Always On availability groups, Data Guard or streaming replication
• Plan capacity for storage, memory and CPU growth
• Migrate databases to Amazon RDS, Aurora or Azure SQL
• Control access with roles, least privilege and audited service accounts
• Review and deploy schema changes from development teams
• Monitor databases with SolarWinds DPA, Redgate SQL Monitor or pgwatch and act on alerts
• Document configurations, runbooks and disaster recovery procedures

Required qualifications

• 2-4 years of hands-on database administration experience
• Strong T-SQL, PL/SQL or PL/pgSQL
• Deep knowledge of at least one of SQL Server, Oracle or PostgreSQL

Perks and benefits

Compensation: $130,000 - $162,000/year DOE.

• Wellness allowance
• Monthly internet allowance
• Company laptop
• Paid parental leave
• 24 days paid time off
• Performance bonus
• Public holidays observed per your country

Saddleloop is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Agencies: please do not contact us about this role.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Saddleloop.