Database Administrator Platform for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Eigenbrakel; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 125 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

NATO seeks a senior SQL Server DBA to own database platforms on‑prem and in the cloud, ensuring security, high availability, and disaster recovery. You will drive the migration into Azure, set governance standards, and lead performance and root-cause analysis to keep data always accessible.

The role is fully on‑site in Belgium with hands‑on responsibilities for installation, tuning, and automation using PowerShell, T-SQL, and Python.

Qualifications

• Expert-level SQL Server administration, tuning and security.
• Deep HA/DR knowledge: Always On, clustering, replication.
• Experience migrating databases to Azure (Azure SQL DB/Managed Instance).
• Automation and scripting for DB ops with PowerShell, T-SQL, Python.

Responsabilités

• Install, configure, and harden SQL Server across on‑prem and cloud.
• Engineer HA/DR, Always On, failover and backup strategies.
• Lead migration to Azure and modernisation projects.
• Automate monitoring, reporting, and data pipelines with scripts.

Connaissances

SQL Server administration

HA/DR

Azure cloud

Automation scripting

CI/CD for DBs

Security/audit

English fluency

Outils

PowerShell

T-SQL

Python

Azure CLI

Description du poste

Where: Fully on-site in Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium.

Would you like to join the leading international intergovernmental organisation?

Behind every decision NATO makes sits data, and behind that data sit the databases you'd own. The Alliance is modernising how it stores, moves and protects information across on-premises and cloud, and it's looking for an expert SQL Server DBA who treats a database like critical national infrastructure, because here it is.

This is a hands‑on, senior seat. You'll install, tune, secure and safeguard database platforms that 32 nations rely on, building the automation, the high‑availability and the disaster‑recovery that mean the data is simply always there. You'll lead the migration into Azure, set the governance standards, and be the person who finds the real root cause when something breaks.

What you'll do

• Install, configure, upgrade, back up and harden SQL Server across on-prem and cloud
• Engineer high availability and disaster recovery, Always On, failover clustering, replication
• Lead database migration and modernisation into Azure (Azure SQL DB, Managed Instance)
• Automate administration, monitoring and reporting with PowerShell, T‑SQL and Python
• Design data pipelines and integration across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB
• Own performance, capacity and security, and the root‑cause analysis when it matters

What you'll bring

• Expert‑level Microsoft SQL Server administration, tuning and troubleshooting
• Real depth in HA/DR: Always On Availability Groups, failover clustering, replication, backup & recovery
• Cloud database experience, ideally Azure; comfort with PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB and MongoDB
• Automation and scripting in PowerShell, T‑SQL and/or Python; IaC and CI/CD for databases
• Solid grip on secure database practice, access control, encryption, auditing, vulnerability management
• Fluent professional English

If safeguarding the data an Alliance runs on sounds like your kind of challenge, we'd love to hear from you, apply and we'll be in touch quickly if it's a fit.