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Database Administrator (DBA)
- Aden, AB, Canada
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About The Company
The National Electronic Wallet is a company specialized in providing digital financial services and products in Yemen. It leverages modern technology to improve the quality of daily life and facilitate financial transactions within the community.
Position Information
Job Purpose
The Database Administrator (DBA) will be responsible for designing, installing, maintaining, and securing the company's databases, ensuring their stability, performance, and high availability, while implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies.
Key Responsibilities
The National Electronic Wallet is a company specialized in providing digital financial services and products in Yemen. It leverages modern technology to improve the quality of daily life and facilitate financial transactions within the community.
Position Information
- Job Title: Database Administrator (DBA)
- Department: IT Infrastructure
- Job Level: Specialist
- Location: Aden, Yemen
- Required Experience: 3–5 years
Job Purpose
The Database Administrator (DBA) will be responsible for designing, installing, maintaining, and securing the company's databases, ensuring their stability, performance, and high availability, while implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies.
Key Responsibilities
- Installation & Configuration: Install and update Database Management Systems (such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, or MySQL) and prepare production and development environments.
- Performance Tuning: Monitor slow queries and optimize them, manage indexes, and improve resource utilization including CPU, Memory, and IOPS.
- Data Security & Protection: Manage access and authorization, user permissions, and encryption policies, while complying with security standards to prevent data breaches.
- Backup & Recovery: Develop and implement periodic backup plans, including Full, Differential, and Log Backups, and conduct regular data recovery testing.
- High Availability & Disaster Recovery (HA & DR): Configure and manage high availability and replication technologies such as Clustering, Replication, Always On, and Data Guard.
- Scheduled Maintenance: Monitor database growth, clean temporary data, apply required patches, and perform essential system updates.
- Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Monitor system performance continuously and respond promptly to alerts and incidents to minimize downtime.
- Practical Experience: 3–5+ years of experience in database administration within real-world working environments.
- Technologies: Strong experience with at least one of the major database management systems (Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL), along with SQL/PL-SQL.
- Supporting Systems: Basic knowledge of operating systems (Linux/Windows Server) and connectivity with storage systems (SAN/NAS).
- Professional Certifications (Preferred): Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) or Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator.
- Soft Skills: Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to work under pressure and during emergency situations.
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Responsibilities
Install, configure, secure, maintain, and optimize company databases while monitoring performance and resolving incidents. Develop and test backup, recovery, high-availability, and disaster-recovery solutions to ensure database stability and minimize downtime.
Requirements
Requires 3–5 or more years of practical database administration experience and strong expertise in at least one major database platform, along with SQL or PL/SQL. Basic knowledge of Linux or Windows Server and SAN/NAS connectivity is expected; Oracle OCP or Microsoft Azure Database Administrator certification is preferred.
Skills
- Database Administration
- Database Installation And Configuration
- Performance Tuning
- SQL
- PL/SQL
- Database Security
- Access Control
- Encryption
- Backup And Recovery
- High Availability
- Disaster Recovery
- Replication
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Troubleshooting
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- Data & Analytics
- Software
Keywords
- Database Administration
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MySQL
- SQL
- PL/SQL
- Linux
- Windows Server
- SAN
- NAS
- Database Management Systems
- Performance Tuning
- Query Optimization
- Index Management
- Database Security
- Access Control
- Encryption
- Full Backup
- Differential Backup
- Log Backup
- Data Recovery
- High Availability
- Disaster Recovery
- Clustering
- Replication
- Always On
- Data Guard
- Oracle Certified Professional
- Azure Database Administrator