Senior Database Engineer

We are looking for Two Senior Database Engineers to join our Brightly team in Cairo, Egypt.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of cloud-based databases.
• Support mission-critical SQL databases with advanced troubleshooting skills for performance and tuning.
• Optimize database systems to ensure efficiency.
• Analyze solutions and implement best practices for database management.
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes, for efficiency and cost optimization.
• Create, maintain, and document processes for managing production database systems.
• Create tools and automation to simplify database operations and improve efficiency.
• Keep up to date with the latest technology trends.
• Work closely with the DevOps teams on production changes, incident mitigation, support application integration and deployment
• Provide database expertise to engineering teams.
• Perform capacity planning including future storage requirements.
• Lead database-related projects, ensuring timely delivery and implementation of new features.

Requirements :

• Bachelor’s in computer science or related discipline; or equivalent work experience.
• Extensive experience in supporting SQL Server in an enterprise environment.
• Multi-Cloud experience is preferred.
• Experience with SQL Clustering and Availability Groups and database replication.
• Experience with monitoring and provisioning SQL Server in AWS/Azure.
• Willing to be on 24X7 on-call rotation and respond to production outages.
• Ability to automate redundant tasks using scripts, jobs, and other technologies.
• Strong communication, partnership, teamwork and influencing skills required.
• Experience with source control, with database engineering background.
• A strong interest in cloud technologies and automation and a DevOps mindset.

Experience with most of the following is preferred:

• AWS (Azure a plus)
• SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL
• SQL Server, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Redis, DynamoDB, Couchbase, RedShift
• SentryOne , Datadog, CloudWatch
• Jenkins, DACPACs, Redgate tools
• Bitbucket, GitHub, SVN
• PowerShell, Bash, Python (C# or GO a plus)
• Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, SAM
• Experience leveraging AI-enabled database features and AIOps tools to improve performance, automate routine tasks, detect anomalies, and support intelligent scaling. Ability to evaluate AI recommendations, ensure governance and compliance, and integrate AI-driven insights into database operations.

If you are interested, please apply directly through our careers site.