Senior Database Engineer: High-Performance, Scalable DBs

Oliver James Group; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Oliver James Group is seeking a Senior Database Engineer/DBA to build and maintain reliable, high-performance database environments within a large organisation. You will collaborate with software engineers, infrastructure specialists and architects to ensure databases remain reliable, efficient and scalable.

You will optimise SQL queries, configurations, perform upgrades and backups, and support development teams with database challenges while driving availability, recovery, and automation

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Database Engineer or DBA.
• Strong experience with at least one relational database management system.
• Advanced SQL skills and query optimisation.
• Experience with performance tuning, monitoring and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Manage, configure and optimise database environments.
• Monitor database performance and availability.
• Analyse and resolve complex database issues.
• Optimise SQL queries, indexes and configurations.
• Perform upgrades, migrations and maintenance.
• Develop and test backup and recovery procedures.
• Support development teams with database challenges.
• Improve database scalability, reliability and performance.
• Automate database administration tasks.

Skills

DB engineering

SQL optimization

Performance tuning

Backup recovery

Monitoring

Architecture advice

Tools

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Job description

Oliver James Group is seeking a Senior Database Engineer/DBA to build and maintain reliable, high-performance database environments within a large organisation. You will collaborate with software engineers, infrastructure specialists and architects to ensure databases remain reliable, efficient and scalable.

You will optimise SQL queries, configurations, perform upgrades and backups, and support development teams with database challenges while driving availability, recovery, and automation