Senior Database Admin - On-Prem & Kubernetes

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

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.