Role Overview – Dicetek L.L.C is hiring a Database Administrator for a full-time, on-site role based in Dubai, UAE. This position is ideal for experienced database professionals with strong technical expertise, database management capabilities, and the ability to install, configure, maintain, optimize, and secure database systems while ensuring high availability, performance, and data integrity across the organization's IT infrastructure.

Database Installation and Configuration – You will install and configure database systems by deploying database servers (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or other platforms), setting up database instances, configuring database parameters, implementing database architectures, establishing database environments (development, testing, production), and ensuring databases are properly configured for optimal performance and security.

Database Performance Tuning and Optimization – You will optimize database performance by monitoring database metrics, analyzing query execution plans, identifying performance bottlenecks, tuning database configurations, optimizing indexes, rewriting inefficient queries, implementing caching strategies, and ensuring databases deliver optimal response times and throughput.

Backup and Recovery Management – You will manage backup and recovery operations by implementing backup strategies, scheduling regular backups, managing backup retention policies, testing backup integrity, performing database restores, implementing point-in-time recovery, maintaining recovery documentation, and ensuring business continuity through reliable backup and disaster recovery procedures.

Database Security and Access Control – You will implement database security and access control by managing user accounts and permissions, implementing role-based access control (RBAC), configuring database authentication, implementing encryption (data at rest and in transit), managing security patches, conducting security audits, preventing SQL injection and unauthorized access, and ensuring databases meet security and compliance requirements.

Database Monitoring and Health Checks – You will monitor database health and performance by using monitoring tools (Oracle Enterprise Manager, SQL Server Management Studio, AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar platforms), tracking database metrics, setting up alerts for critical events, conducting regular health checks, identifying issues proactively, and ensuring database availability and reliability.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery – You will implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions by configuring database replication, setting up failover clusters, implementing Always On Availability Groups (SQL Server), Oracle Data Guard, database mirroring, managing disaster recovery sites, testing failover procedures, and ensuring minimal downtime during system failures.

Database Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution – You will troubleshoot database issues by investigating performance problems, analyzing error logs, diagnosing connectivity issues, resolving database corruption, addressing locking and blocking issues, coordinating with vendors on critical problems, and implementing fixes to restore normal database operations quickly.

Query Optimization and SQL Tuning – You will optimize queries and tune SQL by analyzing slow-running queries, reviewing execution plans, creating and managing indexes, rewriting queries for better performance, implementing query hints, optimizing stored procedures and functions, and working with developers to improve application database interactions.

Database Upgrades and Patching – You will manage database upgrades and patching by planning upgrade schedules, testing patches in non-production environments, applying security patches and updates, performing version upgrades, coordinating with application teams on compatibility, minimizing downtime during upgrades, and ensuring databases remain current and secure.

Capacity Planning and Resource Management – You will perform capacity planning and resource management by monitoring database growth trends, analyzing storage utilization, forecasting capacity requirements, planning storage expansion, optimizing disk I/O, managing memory allocation, and ensuring adequate resources are available to support business growth.

Database Documentation and Standards – You will maintain database documentation and establish standards by documenting database architectures, creating operational runbooks, maintaining database inventory, documenting backup and recovery procedures, establishing naming conventions, defining database standards, and ensuring comprehensive documentation supports operations and knowledge transfer.

Automation and Scripting – You will implement automation and scripting by creating scripts for routine tasks (backups, maintenance, monitoring), automating database deployments, implementing configuration management, using PowerShell, Python, Shell scripting, or similar tools to improve efficiency, reduce manual errors, and streamline database operations.

Data Migration and ETL Support – You will support data migration and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes by coordinating database migrations, assisting with data transfers between systems, ensuring data integrity during migrations, supporting ETL workflows, and working with data engineers on data integration projects.

Compliance and Audit Support – You will support compliance and audit requirements by maintaining audit trails, implementing database audit logging, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations (GDPR, data residency requirements), supporting internal and external audits, and maintaining database practices that meet regulatory and organizational standards.

Collaboration with Development and IT Teams – You will collaborate with development and IT teams by supporting application database requirements, advising on database design, coordinating schema changes, providing database expertise for application development, working with DevOps on database CI/CD, and ensuring databases support application performance and scalability.

How to Apply:

Send your updated CV to career@dicetekuae.com. Please highlight your database administrator experience, the database platforms you specialize in (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.), your backup and recovery expertise, your performance tuning capabilities, examples of database environments you have managed (size, complexity, availability requirements), any cloud database experience, and your scripting and automation skills. Forward to anyone in your network who may be a strong fit.

About the Company:

Dicetek L.L.C is seeking an experienced Database Administrator who brings strong technical database expertise, performance optimization capabilities, and a commitment to maintaining highly available, secure, and reliable database systems that support the organization's data infrastructure, application performance, and business operations within Dubai's dynamic technology landscape.