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Bridge 351

Senior Database Administrator (Netherlands / Belgium)

Bridge 351 Evere, Brussels-Capital, Belgium

Software Development · 51-200 employees

7 h ago
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About the role

The Senior Database Administrator will manage mission-critical production databases within high-security, air-gapped enterprise environments. Responsibilities include performance optimization, disaster recovery planning, and the design of complex data architectures using containerized technologies.

What they look for

MariaDB MySQL PostgreSQL Kubernetes Database administration High availability Disaster recovery Data modelling Microservices ITIL Containerised environments Performance monitoring Enterprise architecture Stateful datasets System administration

Requirements

Candidates must have over 8 years of experience in large-scale ICT systems and extensive expertise in MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes. A strong background in on-premise, air-gapped environments and ITIL processes is mandatory.

Benefits

Health insurance Life insurance Tech visa sponsorship

Full description

Senior Database Administrator

Client: European Union security agency

Location: The Hague, Netherlands (on-site 1 day per week; can be based in Belgium)

Language: English (B2 or higher)

Mandatory requirements Professional experience

  • 8+ years in complex enterprise environments, handling systems administration of large-scale ICT systems.
  • 6+ years of database administration of mission-critical production databases with sensitive data, in high-security environments.
  • 5+ years of database administration with MariaDB (or MySQL).
  • 5+ years of experience with PostgreSQL.
  • 2+ years of database administration with Kubernetes.
  • All of the above experience must be in on-premise, air-gapped environments.

Professional knowledge

  • Containerised environments with databases and stateful datasets (persistent storage volumes).
  • High availability and disaster recovery in containerised environments.
  • Performance monitoring, analysis and optimisation of databases in containerised environments.
  • Data modelling methodologies: conceptual and physical modelling, normalisation, and entity-attribute-relationship design.
  • Complex enterprise architectures and advanced ICT solution design, including microservices.
  • ITIL processes for the systematic management of complex IT environments.

Nice to have

Experience

  • 2+ years with public or hybrid cloud services (Azure or AWS).
  • 3+ years with high availability and disaster recovery clustering: HAProxy, Patroni, Galera, MaxScale.
  • Database administration with Neo4j, Milvus, MongoDB or Cassandra.
  • VMware virtualisation.
  • Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups and Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC).
  • Business intelligence solutions: ETL, OLAP, Power BI.
  • Database administration of all the DBMSs above in on-premise environments.
  • Scripting and automation for DevOps pipelines, automated deployment, and database schema versioning: Puppet, Azure DevOps/TFS, Flyway, Bash, PowerShell, Terraform.

Knowledge

  • Agile methodologies that bridge ICT development and operations.
  • Data centre, infrastructure, security, storage, networking and service management technologies.
  • Data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

What can you expect from us?

Mind-blowing workplace culture. You will be integrated in a professional, dynamic and collaborative team.

100% Remote opportunities

We want you to have the flexibility to work where you feel most comfortable and productive.

International Career

  • You can expect professional growth and to be connect with the world.
  • We are represented in Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Denmark.
  • And with projects in many other countries: Netherlands, Luxembourg, Singapore and in the United States of America (and a lot more is coming…)

Extra Benefits & Perks

If you wish to work with us and you are outside European Union (good news…) we are a Tech Visa Company, We will help!

As a plus, we provide Health and Life Insurance.

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