Database Admin, Senior
Master-Works · Riyadh
SOOR a subsidiary of Master Works, helps organizations stay ahead of evolving cyber threats through advanced cybersecurity and secure infrastructure solutions. SOOR delivers resilient, scalable, and regulation-aligned security across governance, cloud, networks, and managed defense.
SOOR is looking for an experienced Database Administrator, Senior to manage and secure database environments, ensuring high performance, data protection, and compliance with cybersecurity and regulatory requirements. The role involves database administration, encryption, security controls, and maintaining reliable database operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct current-state assessments of existing database environments to identify security gaps and improvement opportunities.
- Install, configure, administer, and maintain enterprise database platforms.
- Support the implementation of database encryption solutions, including Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) or equivalent technologies.
- Configure and manage encryption for data at rest and data in transit.
- Ensure database security configurations comply with National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) cybersecurity controls and organizational security policies.
- Support the integration, testing, validation, and troubleshooting of database encryption mechanisms.
- Monitor database performance, availability, and security to ensure optimal operation.
- Perform database installation, upgrades, patching, migrations, and version management.
- Manage database backup, recovery, replication, disaster recovery, and high-availability solutions.
- Implement database performance tuning and optimization.
- Manage database users, roles, privileges, and access permissions.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, implementation guides, standard operating procedures, and security documentation.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, application, and project teams to implement secure database solutions.
- Identify, investigate, and resolve database-related issues while ensuring data integrity and system availability.
- Ensure compliance with organizational governance, security, and regulatory requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator.
- Hands-on experience implementing database encryption technologies such as Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of database security principles, access control, and encryption best practices.
- Experience with database backup, recovery, replication, clustering, and high-availability architectures.
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and performance tuning skills.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Saudi National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) Essential Cybersecurity Controls (ECC).
- Experience with enterprise key management solutions.
- Experience supporting government or large enterprise environments.