Senior Database Administrator; Fan- Platform

Senior Database Administrator (Fan-)

Contract Duration: 3 Months (with possibility of extension)
Work Mode: Onsite
Location: Riyadh
Joining: ASAP
Nationality Preference: Saudi National preferred

We are seeking a Senior Database Administrator to lead database administration and data-layer operations for the Fan-. This role is critical to ensuring secure, highly available, and scalable databases that support complex integrations, real-time workloads, and peak traffic during live events.

You will play a key role in defining database architecture standards, managing multi-environment and multi-region deployments, and ensuring data reliability across mobile, web, backend, CRM, and third‑party systems.

• Own database administration and data-layer operations for the Fan-, including CRM, Azure, and multiple database technologies.
• Design, implement, and maintain relational and non-relational databases supporting Fan-.
• Ensure databases are secure, highly available, and scalable, capable of handling high-traffic live event workloads.
• Define and contribute to database architecture standards and best practices.
• Design and maintain logical and physical data models.
• Support multi-environment and multi-region database strategies when required.
• Support databases used by mobile and web applications, backend and integration services, CRM, CMS, and third‑party systems.
• Optimize database performance through query tuning and indexing, execution plan analysis, and data model optimization.
• Design and manage HA configurations, replication and failover strategies, backup, restore, and disaster recovery plans.
• Implement and enforce database security best practices.
• Collaborate closely with application, integration, security, and Dev Ops teams to ensure end‑to‑end data reliability.
• Plan and execute database-focused testing, including performance and load testing, failover and recovery testing, backup and restore validation, data integrity and consistency checks.

• Hands‑on experience as a Database Administrator in real production environments.
• Proven experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, Postgre
  
  SQL, Oracle, MySQL.
• Experience with No
  
  SQL databases including Cosmos DB, Mongo
  
  DB, or equivalent.
• Strong expertise in database performance tuning and optimization.
• Solid experience implementing high availability, replication, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Experience supporting large‑scale, high‑traffic platforms.
• Good understanding of event‑driven and microservices‑based architectures from a data perspective.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud‑hosted database platforms on Azure (preferred), AWS, or GCP.

• Experience working on identity platforms, ticketing systems, or large event ecosystems.
• Exposure to real‑time systems and live‑event traffic patterns.
• Familiarity with Dev Ops, CI/CD, and infrastructure‑as‑code practices.

• Seniority level:
  Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Contract
• Job function:
  Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries:
  Software Development and Technology, Information and Internet