Senior Database Administrator

Satellit operates a substantial portfolio of mobility assets across multiple European markets and is accelerating its shift toward digital services to improve the customer experience. To support this journey we are hiring a senior database administrator to take responsibility for the current database estate, maintain performance, security and availability, and lead the migration from on-premises data centres to a public cloud environment. Who are you?

Skills & Competences: Conscientiousness, motivation and positive mindset, ability to work independently, quick learning and strong organizational skills, excellent verbal and written communication, customer-centric approach, teamwork, willingness to ask difficult questions, professionalism, transparency and solution orientation.

Preferred Qualifications: Minimum seven years of hands-on experience administering databases in production environments where availability and reliability are critical, with deep expertise in mainstream commercial relational database systems. Proven experience designing and operating high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions such as synchronous replication and failover clustering. Strong proficiency in SQL, including query tuning and execution-plan analysis.

Practical experience deploying and managing database workloads in a public cloud environment, including managed database offerings and cloud-hosted virtual machines. Experience migrating databases from on-premises infrastructure to cloud platforms is highly desirable. Familiarity with open-source relational databases is an advantage. Ability to automate repetitive tasks using scripting or general-purpose programming languages; experience with infrastructure-as-code or CI/CD for database changes is a plus.

Track record of leading database projects such as major version upgrades, consolidation initiatives or security-hardening efforts. Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience; relevant cloud database or IT service-management certifications are beneficial. Fluent written and spoken English, plus fluency in either French or Dutch. What will you do? Deploy, configure, upgrade, administer, monitor and maintain the organisation's relational databases both on-site and in the cloud.

Define, enforce and document configuration, security and data-integrity standards for databases and related objects; keep operational procedures and technical documentation current. Design, implement and operate backup, restore and high-availability arrangements, and coordinate regular disaster-recovery exercises. Assess, plan and execute migration of database workloads to a public cloud platform using managed database services, managed instances or database servers on cloud virtual machines, collaborating with cloud engineers.

Enforce security best practices including least-privilege access, encryption of data at rest and in transit, auditing and patch management. Act as a primary responder and escalation point for database incidents and service requests, aiming to minimise downtime and service impact. Carry out root-cause investigations for database issues and implement corrective measures to prevent recurrence. Review and advise on database schemas and design changes with development teams to ensure scalability, maintainability and security.

Continuously monitor performance and resource usage, perform query and index optimisation, and forecast capacity and cost implications.

Technologies (mandatory): Azure Cloud Platform, SQL, Security, SQL Server, Postgresql.