The posting
Senior Database Administrator
Satellit operates a substantial portfolio of mobility assets across multiple European markets and is accelerating its shift toward digital services to improve the customer experience. To support this journey we are hiring a senior database administrator to take responsibility for the current database estate, maintain performance, security and availability, and lead the migration from on-premises data centres to a public cloud environment.
Who are you?
What will you do?
- Deploy, configure, upgrade, administer, monitor and maintain the organisation's relational databases both on-site and in the cloud.
- Define, enforce and document configuration, security and data-integrity standards for databases and related objects; keep operational procedures and technical documentation current.
- Design, implement and operate backup, restore and high-availability arrangements, and coordinate regular disaster-recovery exercises.
- Assess, plan and execute migration of database workloads to a public cloud platform using managed database services, managed instances or database servers on cloud virtual machines, collaborating with cloud engineers.
- Enforce security best practices including least-privilege access, encryption of data at rest and in transit, auditing and patch management.
- Act as a primary responder and escalation point for database incidents and service requests, aiming to minimise downtime and service impact.
- Carry out root-cause investigations for database issues and implement corrective measures to prevent recurrence.
- Review and advise on database schemas and design changes with development teams to ensure scalability, maintainability and security.
- Continuously monitor performance and resource usage, perform query and index optimisation, and forecast capacity and cost implications.
Technologies (mandatory)
- Azure Cloud Platform
- SQL
- Security
- SQL Server
- Postgresql
- Conscientiousness
- Motivation and positive mindset
- Ability to work independently
- Quick learning and strong organizational skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Customer-centric approach
- Teamwork
- Willingness to ask difficult questions
- Professionalism
- Transparency and solution orientation
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum seven years of hands-on experience administering databases in production environments where availability and reliability are critical, with deep expertise in mainstream commercial relational database systems.
- Proven experience designing and operating high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions such as synchronous replication and failover clustering.
- Strong proficiency in SQL, including query tuning and execution-plan analysis.
- Practical experience deploying and managing database workloads in a public cloud environment, including managed database offerings and cloud-hosted virtual machines.
- Experience migrating databases from on-premises infrastructure to cloud platforms is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with open-source relational databases is an advantage.
- Ability to automate repetitive tasks using scripting or general-purpose programming languages; experience with infrastructure-as-code or CI/CD for database changes is a plus.
- Track record of leading database projects such as major version upgrades, consolidation initiatives or security-hardening efforts.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience; relevant cloud database or IT service-management certifications are beneficial.
- Fluent written and spoken English, plus fluency in either French or Dutch.



