SQL Server and Azure Database Engineer (Always On, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Eigenbrakel; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

WLG is seeking an on-site Database Platform Engineer in Belgium to manage and optimize a mixed estate centered on SQL Server, with Azure and open-source engines nearby. The role emphasizes automation, DR/HA testing, and cloud migration.

The ideal candidate has expert SQL Server skills, experience with availability groups, and comfort with PowerShell, Python, and IaC. On-site work in Belgium is required, with collaboration across IT teams.

Qualifications

• Expert-level SQL Server administration, tuning and troubleshooting.
• Experience with availability groups, failover clustering, replication and backup strategies.
• Cloud database work, preferably Azure managed instance and database services.
• Samiliarity with PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, and ideally MongoDB.

Responsabilités

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch and back up database systems on premises and in the cloud.
• Design and support high availability and disaster recovery — availability groups, failover clustering, replication and a backup strategy with tested restores.
• Monitor performance, availability and capacity, and address incidents before they occur.
• Build automation — scripts, workflows and pipelines — for administration, monitoring and reporting.
• Support migration and modernisation towards cloud database services.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure and cloud teams on performance and scale.
• Maintain access control, encryption, auditing and vulnerability management, with documentation.

Connaissances

SQL Server admin

Availability groups

Azure cloud

PostgreSQL

MySQL/MariaDB

MongoDB

PowerShell

Python

T-SQL

Infrastructure as code

Deployment pipelines

Query optimisation

Capacity planning

Description du poste

This is a database platform role rather than a query-tuning one. The estate is mixed — SQL Server at its centre, Azure alongside it, and open-source engines around the edges — and the job is to keep all of it available, fast and recoverable while it moves steadily towards the cloud.

It suits a database engineer who automates what they do twice, who takes high availability and disaster recovery seriously enough to test them, and who writes the runbook before it is needed.

What You Would Be Doing

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch and back up database systems on premises and in the cloud.
• Design and support high availability and disaster recovery — availability groups, failover clustering, replication and a backup strategy that has actually been restored.
• Monitor performance, availability and capacity, and deal with problems before they become incidents.
• Build automation — scripts, workflows and pipelines — for administration, monitoring and operational reporting.
• Support migration and modernisation towards cloud database services.
• Work with the application, infrastructure and cloud teams on performance, reliability and scale.
• Keep access control, encryption, auditing and vulnerability management in good order, and the documentation with it.

What you would bring

• Expert-level SQL Server administration, tuning and troubleshooting.
• Real experience of availability groups, failover clustering, replication and recovery.
• Cloud database work, preferably on Azure — managed instance, database services, virtual machines.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and MySQL or MariaDB, and ideally MongoDB.
• Automation in PowerShell, T-SQL or Python, and comfort with infrastructure as code and deployment pipelines.
• Sound fundamentals: relational design, indexing, query optimisation and capacity planning.

The work is full time on site in Braine-l'Alleud, in normal office conditions.