Database Administrator

Empiric; España; Remote; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Empiric in Spain is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to support and maintain SQL Server environments, including on-prem and cloud migrations. The role focuses on uptime, performance, disaster recovery, and security, working within a global IT services team.

Remote from EU applicants with right to work; Sponsorship not available. You will troubleshoot, optimize, and automate database operations, collaborate across teams, and ensure compliance with standards and change control.

Qualifications

• Expert level SQL Server database administration experience.
• Experience with Oracle or Postgres as secondary platform.
• Azure or AWS cloud certification mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot, investigate and resolve database issues within SLAs.
• Maintain disaster recovery procedures for continuous availability.
• Deploy databases in line with standards and business requirements.
• Monitor, tune and manage scheduled tasks, backups, recovery processes and storage.
• Report on performance, stability and storage utilization and flag needs.
• Document updates to database systems and automate where possible.
• Work across OLTP and OLAP environments and outside normal hours when required.

Skills

SQL Server expertise

Cloud DB migration experience

T-SQL

Communication skills

Tools

Azure

AWS

Windows Server

Active Directory

Backup/Recovery tools

Job description

Database Administrator - SQL Server - Remote From EU - Applicants Must Already have the right to work in the EU - Sponsorship not available

Overview

We are looking for an experienced Database Administrator to support and maintain database environments for a global information services organisation. The role covers day to day operations, performance and capacity management, disaster recovery, and migration of database platforms to the cloud. You will work within a database administration team alongside other technical service teams.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot, investigate and resolve database issues, including performance and capacity problems, within agreed ticket SLAs.
• Maintain database disaster recovery procedures to support continuous availability and fast recovery.
• Deploy databases in line with GBS standards and business requirements.
• Monitor, tune and manage scheduled tasks, backup jobs, recovery processes, alerts and storage, following change control procedures.
• Report on database performance, stability and storage utilisation, and flag upcoming needs.
• Document, test and implement updates to database systems, including automation opportunities.
• Work across OLTP and OLAP environments, and outside normal business hours when required.

Key Skills and Experience

• Database administration experience, with expert level knowledge of SQL Server.
• Experience with a second platform such as Oracle or Postgres.
• Strong T-SQL skills, with the ability to read and understand code written by others.
• Experience managing database environments in the cloud, including on premises to cloud migrations.
• Azure or AWS technical certification (mandatory).
• Knowledge of data security, backup and recovery tools.
• Experience with Windows Server, including Active Directory.
• Clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to work independently in a changing environment.
• Building cloud database servers end to end.
• Exposure to automation, scripting or AI assisted operational processes, such as intelligent tuning and anomaly detection.
• Experience with MySQL, Cosmos DB, MongoDB or MariaDB.