Job summary
Lucidya is hiring a Database Administrator in Riyadh to operate and improve PostgreSQL and MySQL production databases across AWS, GCP and in‑Kingdom hosting. The role focuses on availability, performance, backups, HA, migrations and automating operational tasks.
Key responsibilities
- Manage PostgreSQL and MySQL databases across AWS, GCP and on-prem hosting
- Monitor performance, availability and capacity of production databases
- Optimize queries, indexes and database resource utilization
- Manage backups, point-in-time recovery and disaster recovery procedures
- Implement replication, high-availability and failover strategies
- Plan upgrades, migrations and safe schema changes
- Automate database operations using Bash, Python or similar tools
- Troubleshoot incidents and perform root-cause analysis
Requirements
- At least 3 years hands-on PostgreSQL administration in production
- Experience with AWS Aurora, Amazon RDS, MySQL and self-managed Linux databases
- Knowledge of performance tuning, replication, HA and disaster recovery
- Experience with multi-terabyte databases, upgrades and migrations
- Ability to automate operations using Bash or Python
- Skilled at troubleshooting incidents and minimizing downtime
- Follows safe change-management and rollback planning
Skills
PostgreSQLMySQLAWS AuroraAmazon RDSLinuxBashPythonReplicationHigh availabilityDisaster recovery
Source: Workable. Last checked as open: 14 Nov 2026. You apply directly with the employer.
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