Job Location: Belgium
Job Type: Contract
Job Category: Dev & Middleware Infrastructure
Are you a System Administrator with 5+ years of experience with database administration in a production environment? You must be an EU Citizen (due to security clearance) that is based in Belgium or willing to relocate.
Requirements:
- 5+ years as a database administrator in a production environment
- Experience with MySQL, MS-SQL, Oracle RDBMS and MariaDB is mandatory
- Experience with Powershell and other scripting languages
- Experience with Windows Server administration and Application administration
- Experience with Symantec & NetApp Backup administration and recovery procedures;
- Virtualization experience (VMware & Hyper-V management and administration)
- TCP/IP protocol and related services in a Windows 2012, 2016, 2019 environment: DNS, DHCP, WINS;
- ITIL v3 certificate + 1 more technical certificate from the list below
Certificates (at least one from the list below):
- MCSA/MCSE: Server Infrastructure
- MCITP: Enterprise Administrator on Windows Server 2008 and above
- (Storage) NCSA, NCDA, NCIE
- (Virtualisation) VCA-DCV, VCP4/5-DCV, VCAP4/5-DCA, VCAP4/5-DCD, VCDX4/5-DV, VCA-WM, VCP4/5-DT, VCAP-DTD, VCDX-DT – MCTS,
- MCITP: Virtualization Administrator (or higher)
- (Linux) RHCSA, RHCE, RHCJD, RHCJA
- Oracle RDBMS database administration
- SANS certifications such as SEC464, SEC501, SEC506, SEC511
Job Description:
- Configure and manage databases replication, clustering and high-availability
- Define and help implement proactive monitoring
- Undertake periodic upgrades of database schema and perform testing and verification of released database schema upgrades
- Work on maintaining database security (roles, privileges, and authentication)
- Create and maintain documentation, procedures and best practice guides for database deployment and maintenance
- Monitor system details within the database, including stored procedures and execution time, and implement efficiency improvements
- ork with and advise server management teams to participate in release and change management processes to implement new features/functions as well apply mandatory patches or upgrades
- Work with and advise the server management teams to install and configure DB servers and clusters
- Monitor and test consistency of backups and DR copies
- Implement audits and security related vulnerability scanning remediation
- Support service owners, operations managers and service teams on operational projects related to customer’s foundation services, including interventions on ICT infrastructure (servers, backup devices, virtual machines, etc);
- Drafting operational guidelines, procedures, installation notices and scripts for the integration, installation and upgrade of aforementioned component services;
- Support setup and management of central monitoring infrastructure;
- Assistance with roll-out of new ICT infrastructure projects;
- Operate in accordance with the defined ITIL processes and procedures;
- Performing backup/restore operations on data;
- Development of scripts to improve central management and control facilities (central alerting, central logging, central security policy implementation …).