Job summary
Database Administrator Trainee at Salla in Madinah through the Tamheer Program. The trainee will work with the Data Platform team to learn production-scale database operations, performance tuning, backups, recovery and automation.
Key responsibilities
- Write, review and optimize SQL queries.
- Analyze database performance and identify slow queries.
- Support monitoring, health checks and capacity analysis.
- Assist with backup, recovery, replication and HA tasks.
- Investigate incidents and identify root causes.
- Perform benchmarking and compare configurations and technologies.
- Develop Python scripts to automate database tasks.
- Document standards, procedures and prepare technical reports.
Requirements
- Foundational knowledge of SQL.
- Ability to write joins, aggregations, filters and subqueries.
- Basic Python programming skills.
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving.
- Analytical mindset and attention to detail.
- Ability to benchmark and validate results.
- Good communication and documentation skills.
- Motivation to learn database technologies.
Skills
SQLPythonQuery optimizationDatabase monitoringPerformance benchmarkingMySQLPostgreSQLLinux command lineGitDatabase backup & recovery
Source: Workable. Last checked as open: 14 Nov 2026. You apply directly with the employer.
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