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# Senior Database Administrator (Netherlands / Belgium)

- **Company:** Bridge 351
- **Location:** Evere, Belgium (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Databases, Data Centers, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Database Schema, Disaster Recovery, Failover Clustering, HAProxy, PostgreSQL, Machine Learning, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Team Foundation Server, Windows Servers, MongoDB, MySQL, Online Analytical Processing, Neo4j, Windows PowerShell, Power BI, Management of Software Versions, VMware Virtualization, Alwayson, System Availability, Delivery Pipeline, HybridCloud, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Cassandra, Data Analytics, Performance Monitor, Milvus, Puppet, Terraform, Microservices
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=effccc0145ab0e8e

## About the Role

* 8+ years in complex enterprise environments, handling systems administration of large-scale ICT systems.
 * 6+ years of database administration of mission-critical production databases with sensitive data, in high-security environments.
 * 5+ years of database administration with MariaDB (or MySQL).
 * 5+ years of experience with PostgreSQL.
 * 2+ years of database administration with Kubernetes.
 * All of the above experience must be in on-premise, air-gapped environments.

Professional knowledge

 * Containerised environments with databases and stateful datasets (persistent storage volumes).
 * High availability and disaster recovery in containerised environments.
 * Performance monitoring, analysis and optimisation of databases in containerised environments.
 * Data modelling methodologies: conceptual and physical modelling, normalisation, and entity-attribute-relationship design.
 * Complex enterprise architectures and advanced ICT solution design, including microservices.
 * ITIL processes for the systematic management of complex IT environments., * 2+ years with public or hybrid cloud services (Azure or AWS).
 * 3+ years with high availability and disaster recovery clustering: HAProxy, Patroni, Galera, MaxScale.
 * Database administration with Neo4j, Milvus, MongoDB or Cassandra.
 * VMware virtualisation.
 * Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups and Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC).
 * Business intelligence solutions: ETL, OLAP, Power BI.
 * Database administration of all the DBMSs above in on-premise environments.
 * Scripting and automation for DevOps pipelines, automated deployment, and database schema versioning: Puppet, Azure DevOps/TFS, Flyway, Bash, PowerShell, Terraform.

Knowledge

 * Agile methodologies that bridge ICT development and operations.
 * Data centre, infrastructure, security, storage, networking and service management technologies.
 * Data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence.