Overview
Database Engineer Jobs in Dubai, United Arab Emirates at noon
Title: Database Engineer
Company: noon
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Job Title: Database Engineer
Location: UAE
About noon
We’re building an ecosystem of digital products and services that power everyday life across the Middle East—fast, scalable, and deeply customer-centric. Our mission is to deliver to every door every day. We want to redefine what technology can do in this region, and we’re looking for a Database Engineer who can help us move even faster.
noon’s mission: Every door, every day.
What you'll do:
We are looking for a senior database engineer for a well-established electronic payments provider. The ideal candidate must possess 5+ years’ hands-on, strong experience in transactional database management, with a minimum of 3 years working on high-performance enterprise applications, using Azure SQL/ SQL Server related technologies.
The candidate will be responsible for supporting and coordinating all database activities. This includes deploying scripts, database performance tuning, monitoring, backup/ recovery, designing/ creating databases, resolving complex data-related problems, optimizing performance, and monitoring all database related work orders in a timely manner.
The candidate must be a team player and have experience in teamwork but must be able to demonstrate skills required in the end-to-end development process. If required he/ she must be able to start from high level requirements of the individual units, convert them into proper workable units, and document the activities.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the overall performance, backup, and recovery
- Review and deploy scripts written by software engineering teams
- Diagnose and resolve production problems within defined SLAs
- Proactive maintenance and monitoring of all the DB instances
- Work closely with other IT team members to successfully maintain and monitor all the DB instances
- Assist in creating documented processes and procedures to solve complex problems
- Work closely with R&D to identify any possible performance bottlenecks
- Recommend and provide guidance regarding database development, T-SQL best practices, and development standards to the software engineering team members as needed. This includes but is not limited to helping with T-SQL code and performance tuning.
- Recommend, implement, and maintain best practices and corporate standards
What you'll need:
Qualifications Required
- Experience managing large SQL Server environments
- Experience with analyzing SQL Server performance issues
- Previous work with ecommerce and payment related technologies and knowledge of NoSQL technologies. (Mongo DB) will be a huge advantage.
- Knowledge of database administration and data management lifecycle to analyze complex issues and implement appropriate solutions and optimize processes
- Knowledge of major cloud Azure SQL Server advanced features and Performance enhancements (In- Memory OLTP, Lock Priorities, Buffer Pool Extensions, etc.)
- Experience writing PowerShell scripts
- Experience with advanced query design, stored procedures, views, and functions
- Experience with optimal index design and T-SQL performance tuning techniques
- Knowledge of cloud version of SQL Server (e.g. Azure SQL, GCP Cloud SQL)
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering/ computer science
- 5+ years of experience in database engineering/ administration in enterprise environments
Skills
- Fluent in English
- Problem solving and strong drive to deliver results
- High level of energy, enthusiasm, and passion
- Team player with strong communication skills
- Familiarity with Agile principles and Scrum methodologies
- Experience working in DevOps/ Site Reliability Engineering environments
- Flexible working style
Who will excel?
- We’re looking for people with high standards, who understand that hard work matters.
- You need to be relentlessly resourceful and operate with a deep bias for action.
- We need people with the courage to be fiercely original.
- noon is not for everyone; readiness to adapt, pivot, and learn is essential.