Cloud MSSQL DBA - Azure/AWS Production Lead (Spain)

Sapiens; Madrid; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Sapiens in Madrid, Spain seeks a mid-level SQL Server DBA to own day-to-day MSSQL operations on Azure and AWS with on-call rotation. You will expand expertise to Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL as secondary platforms, supporting GDPR, EMEA and US customers from a centralized Cloud DBA team.

The role requires strong English, production troubleshooting discipline, and ownership of changes with rollback plans. Eligible to work in Spain is required, with a fixed EMEA-aligned shift.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of hands-on database administration experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent practical experience.
• Certifications such as DP-300/AZ-900 are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• 24×7 production support for MSSQL estates across EMEA, GDPR and US customers.
• Backup, restore and recovery operations; periodic recovery testing and RTO/RPO validation.
• High availability and disaster recovery: configuration, monitoring, failover testing and recovery.
• Performance monitoring and tuning - query and index optimisation, blocking and contention analysis.
• Patching, upgrades and migrations, including cloud migrations and version upgrades.
• Automation of routine operational tasks and improvements to monitoring.

Skills

English

Incident management

Ownership mindset

Cross-training

Documentation practice

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT

Tools

MSSQL Server

Oracle

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

Sapiens in Madrid, Spain seeks a mid-level SQL Server DBA to own day-to-day MSSQL operations on Azure and AWS with on-call rotation. You will expand expertise to Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL as secondary platforms, supporting GDPR, EMEA and US customers from a centralized Cloud DBA team.

The role requires strong English, production troubleshooting discipline, and ownership of changes with rollback plans. Eligible to work in Spain is required, with a fixed EMEA-aligned shift.