Cloud Database Administrator

Job Snapshot

Role: Cloud Database Administrator

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Industry: IT and Services

Function: Database Administration

Experience: Experienced

Job Type: Full-time

Overview

Cloud Database Administrator in Dubai, United Arab Emirates within the IT and Services sector is a specialized database operations role focused on cloud-hosted database platforms, high availability, disaster recovery, backup, security, performance tuning, and production reliability. The role is ideal for a detail-oriented database professional who can administer relational and NoSQL databases, automate routine operations, and ensure stable, secure, and recoverable data services for enterprise applications.

Job Details

Country: United Arab Emirates

City: Dubai

Industry: IT and Services

Function: Database Administration

Salary: 16000-26000

Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.

Gender: Any

Candidate Nationality: Any

Job Type: Full-time

Role Context

The Cloud Database Administrator will design, administer, and optimize cloud database platforms to support availability, performance, security, and recoverability across production environments. This role requires strong ownership of database stability, backup readiness, HA and DR configurations, access controls, encryption, auditing, and operational documentation. The selected candidate will work closely with application, security, infrastructure, and operations teams to keep database services reliable, scalable, and aligned with business requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer cloud-hosted database platforms, including provisioning, configuration, upgrades, patching, backup, and recovery.
• Design and maintain high availability and disaster recovery configurations for business‑critical database services.
• Perform database performance tuning, query optimization, indexing review, capacity planning, and resource utilization analysis.
• Implement database security controls, including access management, encryption, auditing, and policy‑based governance.
• Support relational and NoSQL database environments across cloud platforms.
• Automate database operations where feasible using scripting, reusable procedures, and operational workflows.
• Monitor database availability, performance, storage growth, backup status, and system health indicators.
• Respond to production incidents related to database services and perform root cause analysis.
• Communicate database risks, service impacts, recovery status, and improvement actions clearly to stakeholders.
• Document database configurations, operational procedures, maintenance activities, and recovery steps.
• Collaborate with application, security, infrastructure, and operations teams to support stable production delivery.
• Recommend improvements that strengthen database resilience, data integrity, security posture, and operational efficiency.

Ideal Profile

• Strong experience administering relational and/or NoSQL databases in cloud environments.
• Proven expertise in backup, recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and performance tuning.
• Practical knowledge of database provisioning, patching, upgrades, monitoring, and capacity planning.
• Experience implementing database security controls such as access management, encryption, and auditing.
• Ability to troubleshoot production database issues and support root cause analysis.
• Hands‑on experience with automation and scripting for database operations.
• Strong attention to detail with a focus on data integrity, accuracy, and recoverability.
• Ability to explain technical risks and operational impacts clearly to stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with application, security, infrastructure, and operations teams.
• Strong ownership mindset for database stability, resilience, and continuous improvement.

Skills Set

• Cloud database administration
• Relational database management
• NoSQL database operations
• Backup and recovery
• High availability and disaster recovery
• Database performance tuning
• Capacity planning
• Query optimization
• Database provisioning and patching
• Access management
• Encryption and auditing
• Database security controls
• Automation and scripting
• Production incident support
• Root cause analysis
• Operational documentation
• Data integrity and recoverability

Why Join Us

• Work on cloud‑hosted database platforms supporting enterprise applications in Dubai.
• Build stronger expertise in database availability, disaster recovery, s