Production Database Administrator — Performance and Reliability for NATO with security clearance

Il y a 4 jours

Brussel, Brussel-Hoofdstad, Belgique WLG Temps plein 65 000 € - 90 000 € Contrat

This is a production DBA post on open source engines: PostgreSQL and MySQL, standalone and clustered, across development, test and live. It is the unglamorous half of database work — the half where replication lag, lock contention and a badly planned query decide whether anyone else can do their job today.

What You Would Be Doing

  • Install, configure, maintain and upgrade PostgreSQL 12+ and MySQL 8+, standalone and clustered.
  • Run routine maintenance properly — schema housekeeping, index maintenance, statistics, retention.
  • Manage users, roles, privileges and authentication on least-privilege lines.
  • Forecast storage growth and advise on partitioning and archiving before capacity becomes an incident.
  • Troubleshoot production problems: data corruption, replication failures, performance degradation.
  • Monitor database health — lock contention, deadlocks, wait events, replication lag, resource use.
  • Analyse and optimise query performance, with execution plans and InnoDB tuning as everyday tools.
  • Produce root cause analysis for critical incidents and keep environments consistent.

What you would bring

  • Solid production experience on both PostgreSQL and MySQL.
  • Replication, clustering and recovery experience that has been tested rather than documented.
  • Real query optimisation practice on both engines.
  • Capacity planning and monitoring instincts.
  • The habit of coordinating with application and infrastructure teams rather than around them.

The work is full time on site in Brussels.