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Job Description

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

Administer mission-critical databases across virtualized, containerized, and on-premises air-gapped environments, covering security, incident and change management, monitoring, maintenance, backups, and performance optimization. Maintain business continuity through high availability and disaster recovery, and develop database deployment pipelines, automation, and data models.

Requirements

Requires at least 11 years of IT experience, including 6 years administering mission-critical production databases in high-security environments. Requires at least 5 years with MariaDB or MySQL and PostgreSQL, at least 2 years with Kubernetes, experience in on-premises air-gapped environments, and knowledge of data modeling and ITIL processes; applicants must be EU citizens.