Database administrator for NATO with security clearance

Would you like to join the leading international intergovernmental organization?

This role offers a defining opportunity to lead the evolution of critical data infrastructure. As a forward-thinking Database Administrator, you will be at the forefront of a strategic transition, moving from on-premises systems to a modern, cloud-native architecture. You will serve as both guardian and innovator of essential data assets, ensuring their integrity, performance, and security.

Responsibilities:

• Cloud Migration & Architecture: Lead and execute the migration of database systems from on-premises to cloud environments (primarily Azure), ensuring data integrity, security, and optimal performance. Design and maintain advanced cloud database architectures.
• High Availability & Disaster Recovery (HA/DR): Design, implement, and manage sophisticated HA/DR solutions, including clustering, replication, and failover strategies, to ensure business continuity for mission-critical systems.
• Automation Engineering: Develop, configure, and maintain automation tools and scripts (using Ansible, PowerShell) to standardize and streamline database provisioning, deployment, patching, and administrative tasks. Integrate database management into CI/CD pipelines.
• Performance & Lifecycle Management: Perform routine installation, configuration, and upgrades of database software across on-prem and cloud environments. Proactively monitor, tune, and manage the full software lifecycle of database products.
• Reporting & Intelligence: Develop dynamic dashboards and reports (using Power BI, SSRS, Grafana) to provide actionable insights into database health, performance, capacity, and compliance.
• Multi-Platform Expertise: Maintain and support core Microsoft SQL Server environments while applying foundational knowledge to other RDBMS platforms like Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL as required.
• Backup & Security: Implement and validate robust backup, recovery, and security strategies in alignment with industry best practices for both cloud and on-premises deployments.

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

• Extensive Expertise: Proven, extensive experience as a Database Administrator or Engineer, with deep, hands-on proficiency in Microsoft SQL Server in both on-premises and cloud (Azure) environments.

• Cloud Database Mastery: Demonstrable proficiency with cloud-native database solutions, specifically Azure SQL Database (Managed Instance, Elastic Pools), including deployment, scaling, and management automation.

• Migration & Automation: Proven track record in planning and executing database migrations from on-premises to the cloud. Strong scripting and automation skills in PowerShell and experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible.

• High-Availability Architectures: A strong understanding and practical experience with advanced High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions, such as Failover Clustering, Always On Availability Groups, and log shipping.

• Reporting Tools: Hands-on experience with at least two reporting/BI technologies such as Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or Grafana.

• Desirable Experience and Education:

• Experience with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) for ETL processes.

• Professional certification (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Database - Specialty).

• Practical experience with other database technologies (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL).

• Knowledge of virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Experience working within an Agile/DevOps framework.

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• Extensive Expertise: Proven, extensive experience as a Database Administrator or Engineer, with deep, hands-on proficiency in Microsoft SQL Server in both on-premises and cloud (Azure) environments.

• Cloud Database Mastery: Demonstrable proficiency with cloud-native database solutions, specifically Azure SQL Database (Managed Instance, Elastic Pools), including deployment, scaling, and management automation.

• Migration & Automation: Proven track record in planning and executing database migrations from on-premises to the cloud. Strong scripting and automation skills in PowerShell and experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible.

• High-Availability Architectures: A strong understanding and practical experience with advanced High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions, such as Failover Clustering, Always On Availability Groups, and log shipping.

• Reporting Tools: Hands-on experience with at least two reporting/BI technologies such as Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or Grafana.

• Desirable Experience and Education:

• Experience with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) for ETL processes.

• Professional certification (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Database - Specialty).

• Practical experience with other database technologies (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL).

• Knowledge of virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Experience working within an Agile/DevOps framework.