Key Responsibilities
• Administer approved database platforms, instances, storage, jobs, configurations and access controls.
• Monitor database health, performance, capacity, availability and replication/high-availability
components.
• Diagnose incidents, blocking, failed jobs, performance degradation and data-platform dependencies.
• Manage approved backup, recovery, maintenance, patching and upgrade activities in coordination with
other teams.
• Support database security, privileged access, audit logging and periodic access reviews.
• Maintain database inventories, configuration baselines, procedures, diagrams and recovery runbooks.
• Provide controlled support to application releases, integrations, reporting and UAT activities.
• Document root causes, risks and recommendations; material changes remain subject to approval.
Requirements
• Minimum 6 years of enterprise database administration experience.
• Strong experience in one or more of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MongoDB, with the
ability to support the confirmed estate.
• Demonstrable skills in performance tuning, backup/recovery, high availability, security and capacity
management.
• Oracle OCP, Microsoft database certification or equivalent preferred.
• Strong understanding of production controls, segregation of duties and auditable change management.
• Previous experience supporting UAE government or regulated data environments.
• Working knowledge of TDRA-hosted database environments and access processes.
• Experience supporting hybrid and highly available database platforms.
• Database availability, backup and performance are managed against the confirmed baseline.
• Privileged access and changes remain controlled and auditable.
• Capacity and recoverability risks are identified and escalated early.
• Production support is coordinated without unapproved changes to business data.
Skills Required
- Minimum 6 years of enterprise database administration experience
- Strong experience in one or more of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MongoDB
- Demonstrable skills in performance tuning, backup/recovery, high availability, security and capacity management
- Strong understanding of production controls, segregation of duties and auditable change management
- Previous experience supporting UAE government or regulated data environments
- Working knowledge of TDRA-hosted database environments and access processes
- Experience supporting hybrid and highly available database platforms
- Oracle OCP, Microsoft database certification or equivalent
What We Do
We are a global team who's passionate about transformative enterprise solutions & intelligent design. Our solutions and designs are out to reshape the way people interact with technology. BlackStone eIT supplies innovative solutions to automate and digitally transform human and information intensive processes. We empower breakthrough business results with smarter workflows, augmented business intelligence with AI insights, and through real-time situational awareness which all drive better business outcomes. BlackStone offers a portfolio of next generation solutions, tools, and technologies to be used as a platform to transform traditional organizations into modern smart organizations. Our solutions are designed to dramatically reduce operating costs, increase competitiveness, mitigate risk, boost internal productivity, improve the customer and employee experience, and to make the previously impossible, possible
