Database Engineer — Cloud, HA, & Automation

Sanofi; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanofi seeks a Database Engineer – Deployment and Support in Barcelona to build, deploy, and support the enterprise database estate powering manufacturing, research, and enterprise systems worldwide.

You’ll work with SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, managing cloud services, deploying infrastructure as code, and promoting schema changes through CI/CD pipelines while ensuring recoverability, security, and compliance.

Qualifications

• Proven track record deploying and supporting enterprise databases (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MySQL) in large-scale, global environments.
• Hands-on expertise in database deployment, high availability (Always On, RAC, replication), backup/recovery, performance tuning, and security; proficiency with Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform preferred), schema migration tools, and scripting (PowerShell, Python, T‑SQL, PL/SQL); working knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• ITSM & observability: Strong working knowledge of ServiceNow (Incident, Change, CMDB) and ITIL practices; experience with monitoring platforms (Datadog, Splunk) and alert design.
• Languages: Fluent English (written and verbal).

Responsibilities

• Deploy databases as code using Terraform, Ansible, and migration tooling (Liquibase, Flyway, DACPAC), with CI/CD pipelines that validate, test, and promote changes from Dev to Production
• Design and operate high availability and disaster recovery — Always On availability groups, Oracle Data Guard, PostgreSQL replication, and cloud-native failover — with regular testing to prove recovery commitments
• Provide L2/L3 operational support and participate in on‑call rotation, diagnosing and resolving incidents including replication failures, performance degradation, backup issues, and corruption scenarios
• Optimize performance and capacity using execution plans, wait statistics, and platform-native tools (Query Store, AWR, pg_stat_statements), partnering with application teams on indexing and query tuning
• Execute patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management, meeting compliance SLAs and driving end‑of‑life remediation across the estate
• Implement database security and compliance — encryption, auditing, privileged access control, and data masking — maintaining validation documentation for GxP-regulated systems
• Automate repetitive tasks with PowerShell, Python, and platform APIs, building reusable, production‑grade automation that eliminates manual toil
• Onboard databases into monitoring and observability platforms (Datadog, Splunk), defining meaningful alerts and dashboards that drive proactive operations

Skills

Database deployment

High availability

Backup and recovery

Performance tuning

Security

Infrastructure‑as‑Code

Scripting

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring/observability

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Liquibase

Flyway

DACPAC

Datadog

Splunk

PowerShell

Python

T-SQL

PL/SQL

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Sanofi seeks a Database Engineer – Deployment and Support in Barcelona to build, deploy, and support the enterprise database estate powering manufacturing, research, and enterprise systems worldwide.

You’ll work with SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, managing cloud services, deploying infrastructure as code, and promoting schema changes through CI/CD pipelines while ensuring recoverability, security, and compliance.