Senior Database Administrator - HA, Cloud/K8s & DevOps

Thaleria SA

Den Haag

Hybrid

EUR 85,000 - 120,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Thaleria SA is seeking a senior Database Administrator to manage mission-critical databases in on-premise, air-gapped environments. You will deploy, optimize, and secure DBMSs across virtualized and containerized layers, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery.

You will lead incident response, automate routines, and collaborate with multiple teams across Architecture, Applications, and Security. Required 8+ years in enterprise settings, strong PostgreSQL and MariaDB/MySQL skills, and

Qualifications

Minimum 8 years in complex enterprise environments with systems administration of large ICT environments.
Experience in 6+ years of production DB administration (sensitive data, high security).
Extensive PostgreSQL and MariaDB/MySQL expertise; Elasticsearch or similar not required.

Responsibilities

Database server deployment, configuration, patching, and upgrades.
Database administration in virtualized environments (VMWare, Linux) and containerized environments (Kubernetes).
Implement data security, access controls, audits, and compliance with procedures.
Incident management following ITSM processes (e.g., ServiceNow) to restore availability.
Change and release management to minimize downtime and prevent data loss.
Health monitoring and performance tuning using tools (e.g., SolarWinds DPA) for DBMS and OS.
Backup, recovery, and data retention planning integrating NetBackup with OS backups.
Ensure High Availability and Disaster Recovery configurations (Galera, MaxScale, etc.).
DevOps pipelines for database changes using Puppet, AzureDevOps, FlyWay.
Automation scripting for repetitive tasks (Bash, Python, PowerShell).
Data modelling: conceptual and physical design, normalization, ER modeling.