Senior Database Administrator Database Services

Etisalat - UAE

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Ref: HP440-267

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

We believe that your unique experiences, skills and passions will further shape into a challenging and rewarding career at Etisalat. In your association with Etisalat, you will gain best in class experience in telecommunications business and you will become part of a winning team dedicated to help you develop, learn and grow.

At Etisalat, as a business, and as a winning team, we're amazingly diverse. But we have all got a few things in common.

• We're ambitious
• We're open minded.
• We're dynamic.
• We respect our customer's needs.
• We enjoy working together.
• We embrace new technologies.
• And we're excited about the future.

At Etisalat, you are encouraged to be creative, think way outside the box, and work with some of the industry's most innovative minds on high impact assignments.

This will build a healthy culture of employee engagement and ultimately lead to engaged customers.

We welcome you to Etisalat. As we together engage to make your career fulfilling in Etisalat, we also look forward to your ideas to drive Etisalat to future success.

We currently have an opportunity for a IT professional with our IT Department, based out of Abu Dhabi; the role of Senior Database Administrator / Database Services Operates and maintains all Etisalat MSSQL databases.

The incumbent would be entrusted to execute the following duties:

• Manages databases and optimizes database configuration to ensure the best possible performance.
• Responsible for Installation and Upgrade SQL databases.
• Maintaining servers to effectively process user requests.
• Ensuring all related databases are fine-tuned, Providing technical advice and proactively manage MSSQL databases.
• Ensuring smooth implementation of new systems, in addition to database consolidation.

Requirements

We're looking for applicants whom are graduates in IT or related field.

Professional certification would be an added advantage.

You would also have 6 ~ 8 years experience handling databases in a large corporation environment.

About the Company

Etisalat has been the telecommunications service provider in the UAE since 1976, and has built up a modern telecom infrastructure and established itself as an innovative and reliable operator.

Etisalat stands 140th among the Financial Times Top 500 Corporations in the world in terms of market capitalization, and is ranked by The Middle East magazine as the 6th largest company in the Middle East in terms of capitalization and revenues. The Corporation is the largest contributor outside the oil sector to development programmes of the UAE Federal Government, and is an award-winning socially responsible corporation. Etisalat has also won accolades from across the region for its nationalization programme.

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Database Administrator salaries in UAE

Average monthly compensation
AED 7,500

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