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SQL DBA

BrusselsHybridHours negotiable<3months

For a financial institution, an SQL DBA is sought for an important assignment.

What you will do.

Help define, implement and maintain highly available, performant & scalable database systems to effectively meet IT Business requirements.
Be involved in deployment and patching automation.
Maintain (backups, transaction log management, index optimisation etc) and upgrade the database systems.
Review database schema changes to ensure compliance with standards and ensure optimal choice of indexing, column definitions etc.
Help with problem solving in case of performance problems or functional issues in applications.
Build a strong relationship both within the infrastructure team and with the development teams.
Promote best practices.
Maintain the deployment pipeline.

Profile

Expert knowledge of SQL Server administration, performance tuning, high availability and disaster recovery.
Strong experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Oracle and enterprise database operations.
Hands-on experience with AWS database services (Aurora, RDS for SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL, DynamoDB).
Experience with Azure database services (Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, CosmosDB).
Strong troubleshooting skills across database, operating system and infrastructure layers.
Experience with PowerShell and infrastructure automation.
Good knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory and Red Hat Linux.

Preferences.

Experience with Terraform, Ansible or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as RedGate, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or equivalent.
Experience modernising legacy database platforms.
Experience with Git, Jira and CI/CD-driven deployment processes.
Experience with cloud security, encryption, backup and disaster recovery solutions.
Experience with performance monitoring and capacity management in cloud environments.
Knowledge of Power BI, SSAS or reporting platforms.
VMware vSphere and ESXi administration knowledge.
Commvault or enterprise backup solutions.
Basic networking and load-balancing (F5) concepts.
Azure Entra ID and Azure platform services.
Basic knowledge of Go.

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