Senior Database Administrator — Scale Global DB Infra

Dyflexis; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 66,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to €6,500 gross per month

Personal development budget

25 vacation days + birthday off

In-house lunch by chef

Job summary

Dyflexis is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to keep our multi-cluster database fast, stable, and scalable. You’ll work with the Platform team and developers from the start to ensure the database is considered in architecture and changes.

You’ll own performance, migrations, and infrastructure growth, applying best practices and high standards across the data stack. This role is based in the Netherlands with strong growth potential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of database administration/engineering experience.
• Experience with MySQL and at least one other DBMS (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL).
• PHP familiarity to read/review queries and loops.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Own production database performance, review/optimize queries, indexing, and execution plans using MySQL.
• Run migrations across database clusters, including Atlas.
• Improve/evolve database infrastructure with scaling strategies like sharding/partitioning.
• Write/maintain standards for database work across teams from data modelling to migrations.
• Handle regular database maintenance, monitoring, mutations, schema changes.
• Review merge requests and PHP code touching the database and plan early.

Skills

5+ years experience as DBA

MySQL expert

PHP familiarity

English proficiency

Fintech/HR SaaS experience a plus

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

Dyflexis is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to keep our multi-cluster database fast, stable, and scalable. You’ll work with the Platform team and developers from the start to ensure the database is considered in architecture and changes.

You’ll own performance, migrations, and infrastructure growth, applying best practices and high standards across the data stack. This role is based in the Netherlands with strong growth potential.