Database Administrator - Deadline 16/10/26

Almaviva Group; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Almaviva Group is seeking a seasoned Database Administrator to manage mission-critical production databases in both virtualized and containerized environments, including Kubernetes. You will enforce security, manage incidents, and implement changes, releases, and backups while optimizing performance.

Responsibilities include monitoring health metrics, disaster recovery planning, and DevOps automation. Candidates should have extensive IT and DBA experience in on-premise or air-gapped settings.

Qualifications

• Minimum 11 years of IT experience.
• At least 6 years in DBA of mission-critical production databases with sensitive data.
• At least 5 years with MariaDB/MySQL.
• At least 5 years with PostgreSQL.
• At least 2 years DBA experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience in on-premise or air-gapped environments.
• Knowledge of ITIL processes.

Responsibilities

• Administer databases in virtualized environments (VMWare) and VM OSs.
• Administer databases in containerized environments (Kubernetes).
• Enforce security and audit access to sensitive databases.
• Incident management per ITSM processes.
• Change and release management for DB deployments.
• Health monitoring with tools like SCOM; monitor DB/OS metrics.
• Backup and recovery planning; integrate NetBackup.
• Performance tuning and optimization of DBMSs.
• Support disaster recovery and high availability configurations.
• Develop DevOps pipelines for DB changes; automate tasks.
• Data modelling and documentation of models.

Skills

IT experience

Data modelling

ITIL knowledge

Tools

MariaDB/MySQL

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

SCOM

NetBackup

SolarWinds DPA

Job description

Database administration in Virtualized environments

database administration in virtual environments, e.g. VMWare, and virtual machine administration of operating systems underlying the DBMSs, including Linux RedHat, CentOS.

Database administration in Containerized environments

database administration in containerized environments including Kubernetes

Security management

Enforce data security and data protection policies by managing security and database access, identifying and auditing user access of sensitive databases in compliance with procedures and regulations.

Incident management

follow structured processes for rapidly detecting, diagnosing, and resolving service disruptions to restore availability and ensure data integrity. Manage incidents using ITSM tools, e.g. ServiceNow

Change and Release management

follow controlled processes for planning and validation for deploying releases of new database systems or changes to existing database into (pre-)production environments, minimizing downtime and preventing data loss.

Health monitoring

defining, gathering, managing metrics for monitoring databases, operating systems and servers to ensure systems remain healthy; checking error logs, system events, database events, disk space and storage events use monitoring tools including SCOM to identify, prevent and resolve issues.

Database maintenance

installing, configuring, scheduling, monitoring Database Jobs for Backups, Integrity checks, Index maintenance, Update Statistics, etc.

Backup and recovery

define, create, schedule database backup plans and strategy, ensure restorability, integrate Database-level backups with Operating System-level backup systems like NetBackup, manage Data Retention.

Performance monitoring, tuning, and optimization

define and gather critical performance metrics for DBMSs and OSs to ensure fast database performance using tools like SolarWinds DPA; assess data access patterns and query plans for improving performance by tuning and optimizing database queries.

Business Continuity

ensure to meet SLAs by configuring High Availability & Disaster Recovery, defining, implementing, configuring, monitoring technologies including Galera, MaxScale, and Data Replication.

DevOps

define, create, implement DevOps pipelines for deploying database changes into production using Puppet, AzureDevops, FlyWay.

Automation

define, implement, schedule, monitor scripts for automation of repetitive, recurring tasks using Bash, Puppet, Python, Powershell, etc.

Data modelling

design, reverse engineer, document conceptual and physical database models and define and update standard operating procedures.

Requirements

Mininum 11 years of IT experience

A minimum of 6 years of experience in Database Administration of mission critical production databases with sensitive data in high-security environments

A minimum of 5 years of experience in Database Administration with the following tools and technologies: MariaDB (or MySQL)

A minimum of 5 years of experience with the following technologies: PostgreSQL

A minimum of 2 years experience in Database Administration with Kubernetes

Above mentioned experiences must be in environments: On-premise, air-gapped

Knowledge of methodologies for

• Conceptual data modelling
• Physical data modelling
• Data model normalization
• Entity-Attribute-Relationship design

Knowledge of ITIL processes for systematic management of complex IT environments

Deadline 16/10/26

Delivery mode : Proximity (The Hague)

Only Eu Citizens