Database Administrator - Deadline 16/10/26
Key Skills
Job Description
Database administration in Virtualized environments: database administration in virtual environments, e.g. VMWare, and virtual machine administration of operating systems underlying the DBMSs, including Linux RedHat, CentOS.
Database administration in Containerized environments: database administration in containerized environments including Kubernetes
Security management: Enforce data security and data protection policies by managing security and database access, identifying and auditing user access of sensitive databases in compliance with procedures and regulations.
Incident management: follow structured processes for rapidly detecting, diagnosing, and resolving service disruptions to restore availability and ensure data integrity. Manage incidents using ITSM tools, e.g. ServiceNow
Change and Release management: follow controlled processes for planning and validation for deploying releases of new database systems or changes to existing database into (pre-)production environments, minimizing downtime and preventing data loss.
Health monitoring: defining, gathering, managing metrics for monitoring databases, operating systems and servers to ensure systems remain healthy; checking error logs, system events, database events, disk space and storage events use monitoring tools including SCOM to identify, prevent and resolve issues.
Database maintenance: installing, configuring, scheduling, monitoring Database Jobs for Backups, Integrity checks, Index maintenance, Update Statistics, etc.
Backup and recovery: define, create, schedule database backup plans and strategy, ensure restorability, integrate Database-level backups with Operating System-level backup systems like NetBackup, manage Data Retention.
Performance monitoring, tuning, and optimization: define and gather critical performance metrics for DBMSs and OSs to ensure fast database performance using tools like SolarWinds DPA; assess data access patterns and query plans for improving performance by tuning and optimizing database queries.
Business Continuity: ensure to meet SLAs by configuring High Availability & Disaster Recovery, defining, implementing, configuring, monitoring technologies including Galera, MaxScale, and Data Replication.
DevOps: define, create, implement DevOps pipelines for deploying database changes into production using Puppet, AzureDevops, FlyWay.
Automation: define, implement, schedule, monitor scripts for automation of repetitive, recurring tasks using Bash, Puppet, Python, Powershell, etc.
Data modelling: design, reverse engineer, document conceptual and physical database models and define and update standard operating procedures.
REQUIREMENTS:
Mininum 11 years of IT experience
A minimum of 6 years of experience in Database Administration of mission critical production databases with sensitive data in high-security environments
A minimum of 5 years of experience in Database Administration with the following tools and technologies: MariaDB (or MySQL)
A minimum of 5 years of experience with the following technologies: PostgreSQL
A minimum of 2 years experience in Database Administration with Kubernetes
Above mentioned experiences must be in environments: On-premise, air-gapped
Knowledge of methodologies for:
Conceptual data modelling
Physical data modelling
Data model normalization
Entity-Attribute-Relationship design
Knowledge of ITIL processes for systematic management of complex IT environments
Deadline 16/10/26
Delivery mode : Proximity (The Hague)
Only Eu Citizens
Core Responsibilities
The Database Administrator will manage and maintain databases in virtualized and containerized environments, ensuring high availability, performance, and security. Responsibilities include incident management, backup and recovery strategy, performance tuning, and implementing DevOps pipelines for database deployments.
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 11 years of IT experience, including 6 years in mission-critical database administration within high-security environments. Proficiency in MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes is required, along with knowledge of ITIL processes and data modeling methodologies.
About AlmavivA de Belgique
Industry: Information Technology & Services
Company size: 51-200 employees
AlmavivA de Belgique is a Belgian IT company, a branch of the AlmavivA Group , created purposely to satisfy the needs of customers in Belgium, Luxembourg and the entire EU. The AlmavivA group is the largest supplier of Information & Communication Technology in Italy, with years of experience and an in-depth understanding of the public and private sector markets. The Group is currently undergoing major international expansion and is already a global operation: it has 43 offices in Italy and 23 abroad, and employs 45,000 people - 6,000 in Italy and 39,000 overseas. It has a significant presence in Brazil, and is also operational in the United States, China, Colombia, Tunisia, Romania and Brussels, the nerve centre of the EU. The objective of AlmavivA de Belgique is to bring the experience, skills, abilities and resources of the AlmavivA Group in a European context, to resolve complex IT challenges through technological innovation and proven standards of quality. AlmavivA's professionals work to guarantee and maintain our customers' mission-critical operations, reinforcing support for end users and optimising corporate applications and IT infrastructure. Our mission is to bring technological innovation to the field of software development and IT infrastructure management, taking advantage of the experience our company has acquired through its extraordinary global experience. The vision of AlmavivA de Belgique is to generate ideas that rapidly lead to simple and intuitive business-driven solutions that help to realize our customers' potential. The professionals who work within the Group share our vision which aims to stimulate and reinforce the ability of every individual to express, create, develop and cooperate, offering a unique model of "shared intelligence".