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# Database Administrator (MSSQL)

- **Company:** Sapiens
- **Location:** Madrid, Spain
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Databases, Disaster Recovery, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle (Applications), User Provisioning Software, System Availability, Information Technology, Performance Monitor, Cloud Migration
- **Published:** November 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobleads.com/es/job/database-administrator-mssql--madrid--e5abb27ed093defbc6a48a86d3713e773

## About the Role

* 6-10 years of hands-on database administration experience, with a majority on Microsoft SQL Server in production environments.
 * Demonstrable experience supporting enterprise or managed-services customers under formal SLAs.
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent practical experience.
 * Certifications such as Microsoft Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300), Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) or AWS Certified Database - Specialty are an advantage.
 * Eligibility to work in Spain.

Professional skills

 * Strong written and spoken English; able to communicate directly with customer stakeholders.
 * Structured troubleshooting under production pressure, with clear escalation and hand-over discipline across shifts.
 * Ownership mindset - validating changes before they reach production and owning the rollback path.
 * Willingness to cross-skill into the secondary database platforms; the team actively runs MSSQL Oracle cross-training to widen coverage across the on-call rotation.
 * Documentation habit - runbooks, knowledge-base articles and post-incident notes.

## Description

Job Description

We are looking for a mid SQL Server DBA to join our Global Cloud DBA team in Spain. You will own the day-to-day operation, availability and performance of MSSQL estates hosted on Azure and AWS for GDPR, EMEA and US customers, working a fixed shift aligned to EMEA business hours with rotational on-call responsibility for critical incidents outside those hours. You will also build working capability on Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL as secondary platforms to widen cross-platform coverage. Location: Spain, Madrid.

Job Requirements

 * 6-10 years of hands-on database administration experience, with a majority on Microsoft SQL Server in production environments.
 * Demonstrable experience supporting enterprise or managed-services customers under formal SLAs.
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent practical experience.
 * Certifications such as Microsoft Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300), Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) or AWS Certified Database - Specialty are an advantage.
 * Eligibility to work in Spain.

Professional skills

 * Strong written and spoken English; able to communicate directly with customer stakeholders.
 * Structured troubleshooting under production pressure, with clear escalation and hand-over discipline across shifts.
 * Ownership mindset - validating changes before they reach production and owning the rollback path.
 * Willingness to cross-skill into the secondary database platforms; the team actively runs MSSQL Oracle cross-training to widen coverage across the on-call rotation.
 * Documentation habit - runbooks, knowledge-base articles and post-incident notes.

Job Responsibilities

 * 24×7 production support for MSSQL estates across EMEA, GDPR and US customers - incident response, root-cause analysis and SLA-bound resolution of P1/P2 issues.
 * Execution and validation of customer scripts and datafixes against production and pre-production databases, including impact assessment, backup/snapshot before execution and ownership of the rollback path.
 * Backup, restore and recovery operations; periodic recovery testing and RTO/RPO validation.
 * Database refresh, clone and copy activities across environments, including masked refreshes for non-production.
 * High availability and disaster recovery: configuration, monitoring, failover testing and recovery.
 * Performance monitoring and tuning - query and index optimisation, blocking and contention analysis, capacity and growth management.
 * Planned change delivery: pre-implementation backups, implementation, post-implementation and post-patching validation within agreed maintenance windows.
 * Access and permission management, user provisioning and privilege reviews.
 * Patching, upgrades and migrations, including cloud migrations and version upgrades.
 * Automation of routine operational tasks and contribution to self-healing and monitoring improvements.
 * Proactive analysis of recurring incidents to identify and eliminate root causes rather than repeatedly remediating them.