Senior Database Administrator

Role: Senior Database Administrator (Senior DBA)

Location: Netherlands (Utrecht OR Amsterdam) - Hybrid/ Remote

Type: Full-time (Not available for Contracts)

Salary: Negotiable

Languages: Dutch (Primary) & English (Secondary)

Mandatory Skills:

About the Role:

To manage multiple database environments and support Technical Application Management within the customer landscape’s hybrid environment (on-prem + Cloud).

Key Responsibilities:

• Database management based on several technologies, ensuring availability and good performance (both proactively and preventively),
• Support basic operations by managing services, databases and applications, including deployment of updates and patches
• Handle daily IT operations; support with priority tickets, follow-up on service requests and preparation of changes.
• Perform updates, where necessary in consultation with the supplier of the application and/or underlying platform.
• Coordinate with other technical teams for the support needed to execute the day-to-day or project-related tasks.
• Ensure Point in time recovery for the databases and applications.
• Increase efficiency and effectiveness by standardizing and automating IT Services related to Technical Application Management.
• Keeping relevant documentation up to date for knowledge retention, faster resolution of service interruption and compliance & audit readiness e.g. SOPs.
• Trend analysis of usage, performance and implications for the Services.
• Provide operational insights and evidence-based recommendations for the continuous improvement, lifecycle, security, resilience, performance and maintainability of the database environments, in collaboration with the responsible architects, technical leads and service owners.

Required Skills:

• Hands-on administration and troubleshooting of production Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle (version 19c and above) environments.
• Backup, restore, point-in-time recovery and periodic validation of recovery procedures.
• Database security controls, including RBAC, encryption, auditing and remediation of security findings.
• Monitoring, performance tuning, capacity management and root-cause analysis.
• Controlled patching, upgrades and lifecycle management.
• T-SQL and practical automation/scripting experience.
• Maintaining SOPs, recovery documentation and audit evidence.
• Effective coordination with application, infrastructure, security and supplier teams.

Preferred Skills & Knowledge:

• Microsoft certification for Database Administration (SQL)
• Virtualisation: Azure SQL Database, Azure Managed Instance, Azure PostgreSQL.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent written & oral communication and interpersonal skills
• Team Player and ready to work in a collaborative environment.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of responsibilities