Database Administrator

About Lucidya and the Role

Lucidya is an AI-native Customer Experience Intelligence platform. As the platform expands, maintaining a reliable, secure, and high-performing data infrastructure is essential. We are seeking a Database Administrator to join our team in Riyadh, Riyadh Province. This full-time role involves strengthening database operations, improving resilience, and ensuring data infrastructure reliability as the company scales.

Role Overview

The Database Administrator will take ownership of the health and operational reliability of production databases. This includes managing multi-terabyte database environments, high-availability architecture, disaster recovery, major-version upgrades, and safe database migrations. The role requires close collaboration with engineering, cloud, and reliability teams to support database decisions, prevent production incidents, and enhance database change design and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain PostgreSQL and MySQL databases across AWS, GCP, and self-managed environments.
• Monitor database performance, availability, and capacity.
• Optimize queries, indexing, and database resource utilization.
• Manage backups, point-in-time recovery, and disaster recovery.
• Implement database replication, high availability, and failover strategies.
• Plan database upgrades, migrations, and safe schema changes.
• Maintain database security, access controls, and auditing.
• Automate database operations using Bash, Python, or similar tools.
• Troubleshoot database incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, SRE, and Cloud teams to improve database reliability and scalability.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience as a Database Administrator.
• Hands-on experience with backups, recovery, replication, and failover.
• Ability to troubleshoot database incidents and minimize downtime.
• Proficiency in safe change-management practices and maintaining rollback plans.
• Ability to troubleshoot slow queries, indexing, locking, and resource utilization.
• Understanding of PostgreSQL internals and multi-tenant database challenges.
• Demonstrated ownership, calm under pressure, clear communication, and effective collaboration with engineering teams.
• Commitment to documenting work and continuously improving database reliability.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)

• Experience with multi-tenant database architectures, particularly schema-per-tenant environments with thousands of schemas.
• Experience managing databases larger than several terabytes with high write volumes and demanding availability requirements.
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL tooling such as Patroni, pgBackRest, or WAL-G.
• Experience supporting cloud migrations or moving customer workloads to in-Kingdom hosting environments.
• Familiarity with database observability, capacity planning, and per-customer database usage or cost allocation.
• Experience working in SaaS, data-platform, fintech, banking, or telecommunications environments.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools and automated database provisioning.
• Relevant certifications, such as EDB PostgreSQL or AWS certifications.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh. The role involves working with production PostgreSQL and MySQL environments across AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and in-Kingdom hosting environments. The Database Administrator will collaborate with various teams including engineering, cloud, and reliability to ensure platform stability and performance.