Database Engineer

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 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

• 5+ years of experience in database engineering/ administration in enterprise environments

Skills

• 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

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.