Database Administrator

About the Company We are Zetes, a global leader in Solution Integration specialising in Supply Chain Optimisation and Identity Solutions. Our Goods ID Division helps companies achieve agility, visibility and traceability across their connected supply chain. Our People ID Division helps Governments to improve their services to the population in the areas of Legal Identity, Mobile ID and Border Control. Our solutions aim to improve governance, public policy, and people's lives through efficient Identity management (physical and digital) and to secure the traveller's journey every step of the way. Founded in 1984, Zetes is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium and has more than 1,300 employees in 22 countries across EMEA. Follow us on LinkedIn and visit our website About the Role Our People ID Division helps Governments to improve their services to the population in the areas of Legal Identity, Mobile ID and Border Control. Our solutions aim to improve governance, public policy, and people's lives through efficient Identity management (physical and digital) and to secure the traveller's journey every step of the way. As a DBA specifically you provide a critical contribution to all installations and services provided by the company. You keep up-to-date, on the top of your field in an ever changing, always improving area of data repositories. You are working together with your colleague DBA, operations and infrastructure IT team to manage and maintain our Oracle database environment. In our solutions and services, we are not limited to using Oracle only, we also have in use Maria DB clusters (Galera) and Postgres. For some instances we also experiment with NoSQL repos like CouchDB. Responsibilities Install, configure, and manage databases & other flavours Design and implement database solutions Provide support to users (e.g. developers/devops/IT/OPS using the DB) Perform database backups and restores Monitor database performance Tune the database's performance when needed Ensure database security, proper access rights, encrypt data Troubleshoot all kinds of database problems Stay up-to-date on database technologies Participate in business growth and innovation for the future Qualifications Master-level (or equivalent by experience)+5 years of experience as an Database Administrator Required Skills Expertise with one of the following database technologies : Oracle, Postgres, MariaDB, SQL Server Data modeling and database design Database schema creation and management Backup and recovery Ensuring data integrity Performance tuning Security Disaster recovery Proficient in SQL and PL/SQL Experience with DB clustering technologies is a definite plus Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills Excellent communication and interpersonal skills Willingness to learn on other technologies such as Maria DB clusters and Postgres Auto-didact (while we do invest in your growth, and applaud you for following courses, we see that being an auto-didact as part of your nature, is an indispensable asset) Required Skills Expertise with one of those database technologies : Oracle, Postgres, MariaDB, SQL Server Data modeling and database design Database schema creation and management Backup and recovery Ensuring data integrity Performance tuning Security Disaster recovery Proficient in SQL and PL/SQL Experience with DB clustering Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills Excellent communication and interpersonal skills Willingness to learn on other technologies such as : Oracle, Postgres, MariaDB, SQL Server Auto-didact (while we do invest in your growth, and applaud you for following courses, we see that being an auto-didact as part of your nature, is an indispensable asset) Preferred Skills Experience with Oracle ASM, Clusterware & RAC Experience with MariaDB Galera & Maxcale Experience with Postgres and/or SQL Server in High Availability Experience with Zabbix & Grafana monitoring