Senior Database Administrator (DBA)

About the role

Our subsidiary SOOR is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to join its team. The role focuses on database administration, security, encryption, and compliance with cybersecurity and regulatory requirements while supporting secure, high‑performing database environments.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct assessments of existing database environments to identify security gaps.
• Install, configure, administer and maintain enterprise database platforms.
• Implement and manage encryption solutions such as Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for data at rest and in transit.
• Ensure database security configurations comply with National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) controls.
• Monitor performance, availability and security; perform tuning and optimization.
• Manage backup, recovery, replication, disaster recovery and high‑availability solutions.
• Handle database upgrades, patching, migrations and version management.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, SOPs and security guides.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT or related field.
• Minimum 3 years hands‑on experience as a Database Administrator.
• Proven experience with database encryption technologies (e.g., TDE).
• Strong understanding of database security, access control and encryption best practices.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and documentation skills.

Required skills

• Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) or equivalent encryption technologies.
• Database backup, recovery, replication and clustering.
• High‑availability architectures and disaster recovery.
• Performance tuning and optimization.
• Key management solutions.