Senior Database Administrator

Certifications include ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, and we hold partner status with Microsoft, Cisco and VMware. Enterprise clients outsource service desk, end-user support and data centre operations to us under multi-year contracts. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

Overview:

Madrid IT has an opening for a Senior Database Administrator. We need someone who checks the backups before anyone asks, and who can explain a query plan to a developer. Remote, open to candidates across Spain. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Main duties:

• Control access with roles, least privilege and audited service accounts.
• Upgrade major database versions with minimal downtime.
• Manage backups and run regular restore tests against RPO and RTO targets.
• Tune queries, indexes and statistics using execution plans and Query Store.
• Migrate databases to Amazon RDS, Aurora or Azure SQL.
• Monitor databases with SolarWinds DPA, Redgate SQL Monitor or pgwatch and act on alerts.
• Install, configure and patch SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL or MySQL instances.

Minimum qualifications:

• 7+ years of hands-on database administration experience.
• Understanding of Windows Server and Linux as database hosts.
• Familiarity with SAN storage and VMware virtualization basics.
• Proven query and index tuning ability.
• Willingness to work occasional nights and weekends for maintenance windows.

Salary: €49,000-€58,000/year

Benefits:

• Private health insurance.
• Training budget.
• Remote work allowance.
• Meal vouchers.

Shortlisted candidates will hear from us within two weeks.

We may close this posting early once we have enough applications.

Start: Immediately.

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