Senior Database Platform Engineer - Hybrid

Rotterdam Innovation City; Rotterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus

Generous PTO

Travel Allowance

Pension Plan

Free Games

Job summary

i3D.net is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to own the availability, scalability, and performance of MariaDB/MySQL platforms powering real-time services.

You will design, build, and operate highly available database platforms, work across Linux, Kubernetes, and platform automation, and contribute to monitoring, security, and reliability. This hybrid role requires onsite time in Rotterdam and relocation support within the EU if needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience managing production database platforms, preferably MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Experience operating Linux systems in on-premise or hybrid environments; troubleshooting storage, networking, and system resources.
• Automation using Ansible and Terraform to automate database and infrastructure workflows.
• Experience integrating databases into CI/CD pipelines and working with platform teams; GitHub Actions is a plus.
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve highly available RDBMS platforms across multiple environments.
• Operate multi-environment database clusters including replication, failover, backups, and performance tuning.
• Automate database provisioning, configuration, upgrades, and maintenance using IaC.
• Own Linux systems running database workloads; handle day-to-day operations and tuning.
• Integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines and support reliable releases.

Skills

Database engineering

Linux

Kubernetes

Automation / IaC

CI/CD

Monitoring

Collaboration

Tools

Docker

Ansible

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

i3D.net is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to own the availability, scalability, and performance of MariaDB/MySQL platforms powering real-time services.

You will design, build, and operate highly available database platforms, work across Linux, Kubernetes, and platform automation, and contribute to monitoring, security, and reliability. This hybrid role requires onsite time in Rotterdam and relocation support within the EU if needed.