Database Consultant: Modernization & Performance (Hybrid)

Kyndryl; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kyndryl is seeking a Database Consultant to join our Database Consulting team for a large-scale estate assessment, optimization, and modernization project. The client operates ~1,700 databases across on-premises and cloud environments, with a heterogeneous tech landscape including Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and IBM Db2.

The role combines DBA expertise with analytical and consulting skills to drive improvement initiatives, remediation, and modernization across the database estate.

Qualifications

• Experience +3 years of experience as a DBA, Database Consultant, or in a similar role.
• Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Experience managing and supporting large database estates.
• Hands‑on experience with at least one of the listed database technologies, together with knowledge of other relational database platforms.
• Previous experience in database assessment, transformation, or modernization projects will be highly valued.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the technical assessment of an estate of approximately 1,700 databases.
• Perform discovery, inventory, and characterization of the various database platforms.
• Analyze database versions, configurations, lifecycle status, and operational health.
• Identify risks and improvement opportunities related to performance, capacity and growth, availability, backup and recovery, security, monitoring, and upgrades.
• Define technical recommendations and action plans.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, cloud, and operations teams.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to junior team members.

Skills

Database administration

Performance tuning

Backup and recovery

High Availability

Monitoring

Capacity planning

Security

Patching and upgrades

Migrations and consolidations

Configuration analysis

Database lifecycle mgmt

Assessment and Consulting

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Tools

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Job description

Kyndryl is seeking a Database Consultant to join our Database Consulting team for a large-scale estate assessment, optimization, and modernization project. The client operates ~1,700 databases across on-premises and cloud environments, with a heterogeneous tech landscape including Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and IBM Db2.

The role combines DBA expertise with analytical and consulting skills to drive improvement initiatives, remediation, and modernization across the database estate.