C004969 Database Administrator Platform (NS) - THU 9 Jul
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Deadline Date: Thursday 9 July 2026
Requirement: Database Administrator Platform
Location: Braine-l'Alleud, BE
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Total Scope of the request (hours): 418
Required Start Date: 10 August 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties & Role:
- Manage installation, configuration, upgrades, and backups of database systems and related products both on-premises and in the cloud
- Design, develop, and maintain data collection, transformation, and integration processes across multiple on-premises and cloud RDBMS platforms
- Monitor database performance, availability, and capacity, proactively identifying and resolving issues to ensure optimal service delivery.
- Develop and manage automation tools, scripts, and workflows for database administration, monitoring, maintenance, and operational reporting.
- Produce dynamic reports and standardized templates to support database configuration management, performance monitoring, and lifecycle tracking;
- Support database migrations and modernization initiatives involving Azure and other cloud database services.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and cloud engineering teams to ensure optimal database performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Establish and maintain data governance and quality standards within reporting and integration processes;
- Stay current with database technology roadmaps, contributing to continuous improvement of lifecycle management, security, and data reliability.
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, architectural designs, and support runbooks.
Requirements
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- Expert-level knowledge and hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration, development, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and optimization.
- Strong experience designing, implementing, and supporting High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions including Always On Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, Replication, Backup and Recovery strategies
- Experience managing databases across cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure (Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure Virtual Machines)
- Experience on administering and supporting open-source database technologies including PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB.
- Experience with NoSQL database technologies, preferably MongoDB
- Proficiency in database automation and scripting using PowerShell, T-SQL, and/or Python.
- Strong understanding of relational database design, normalization, indexing strategies, query optimization, and capacity planning
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and database deployment automation practices
- Skilled in containerized and virtualized environments.
- Strong understanding of database monitoring, observability, and performance management tools.
- Ensures data quality, consistency, and governance across integrated systems, following organizational data standards and compliance requirements;
- Implements secure database management practices, including access control, encryption, auditing, and vulnerability management.
- Lead technical investigations, root cause analysis, and resolution of complex database incidents and problems.
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EMW was founded in 1995 by engineers and managers who formerly held senior positions in well known telecommunications and information technology companies to pursue their vision for this new company. Our core business is providing information and communication technology services in the areas of planning, engineering and implementation; project and program management; systems integration; operations and maintenance; and training. Our competencies range over all aspects of inside and outside plant; feeder, access and inter-office networks; switching, transmission, multiplexing and data communications equipment; network management, operations support, and asset management systems; information assurance; web enabling; applications software; and beyond. While staying abreast of today’s technologies, we keep a watchful eye on technology trends, and are very serious about future-proofing our solutions. We play in the global marketplace, and are proud to serve a wide spectrum of distinguished clients from defense and government agencies, as well as commercial enterprise. Our watchwords are competency, innovation, integrity, and—above all—respect and care for the customer.
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