DBA – The Hague – Home Office

RMM Consulting Group; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

RMM Consulting Group is seeking a DBA for a home-office engagement with an international institution. The role covers DB administration in virtualized and containerized environments, security management, and incident handling, with a focus on high data security and ITIL-aligned processes.

You will manage backups, performance tuning, and DevOps-oriented tasks using Puppet, AzureDevOps, and related tools, contributing to data resilience and availability.

Qualifications

• Minimum 11 years of IT experience.
• At least 6 years in database administration of mission-critical production databases with sensitive data in high-security environments.
• At least 5 years with MariaDB/MySQL.
• At least 5 years with PostgreSQL.
• At least 2 years experience DBA with Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Database administration in virtualized environments (VMWare, Linux).
• Database administration in containerized environments (Kubernetes).
• Security management and data protection compliance.

Skills

IT experience

Database administration

Security mindset

Tools

MariaDB / MySQL

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Job description

For our client – An International Institution
we are looking for DBA – Home office

Freelance Opportunity, (B2B),
Long term contract,
Attractive daily RATE

Location: Home Office / The Hague

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:

Knowledge of ITIL processes for systematic management of complex IT environments