Lead Database Administrator

Lead cloud database administration in Amman, overseeing performance, security, backups, recovery, archiving and a specialist DBA team.

Responsibilities

• Ensure database performance, integrity and security across cloud microservices and plan, develop and troubleshoot systems with the DBA team.
• Maintain consistent, well-defined data, secure backups and documented, tested recovery plans and reliable concurrent access.
• Design database architecture with technical peers, improve exchange, performance and security and own data-archiving processes.

Requirements

• A Computer Science, Engineering or related bachelor’s or master’s degree.
• Eight to ten years maintaining large and small relational and nonrelational databases and five to ten years with Azure, AWS or GCP cloud microservices.
• Five to ten years building, managing and monitoring engines such as Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cosmos DB and ELK.
• Proven DBA-team leadership, communication, problem-solving, critical thinking, explanation of complex situations and multitasking.

Working expectations and application

• Participate in appraisals and objectives and follow safety, employment, quality, environmental and information-security policies and continuing confidentiality.
• Additional duties may match experience or training. Full-time Amman role; salary and deadline are unspecified. Apply through the original vacancy.