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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Database Administrator (High Availability, Automation and Migration) for NATO with security clearance - **Company:** WLG - **Location:** Eigenbrakel, Belgium - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Build Automation, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Database, Databases, Disaster Recovery, Failover Clustering, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source Technology, Performance Tuning, Windows PowerShell, Query Optimization, Transact-SQL, Virtual Machines, Software Vulnerability Management, System Availability, Delivery Pipeline, Indexer, Performance Monitor, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) - **Published:** August 25, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.be/details/5854632734 ## About the Role * Expert-level SQL Server administration, tuning and troubleshooting. * Real experience of availability groups, failover clustering, replication and recovery. * Cloud database work, preferably on Azure - managed instance, database services, virtual machines. * Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and MySQL or MariaDB, and ideally MongoDB. * Automation in PowerShell, T-SQL or Python, and comfort with infrastructure as code and deployment pipelines. * Sound fundamentals: relational design, indexing, query optimisation and capacity planning. The work is full time on site in Braine-l'Alleud, in normal office conditions. ## Description This is a database platform role rather than a query-tuning one. The estate is mixed - SQL Server at its centre, Azure alongside it, and open-source engines around the edges - and the job is to keep all of it available, fast and recoverable while it moves steadily towards the cloud. It suits a database engineer who automates what they do twice, who takes high availability and disaster recovery seriously enough to test them, and who writes the runbook before it is needed. 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