We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator with strong expertise in Oracle and hands-on experience across modern database platforms and cloud environments. The ideal candidate will design, operate, and optimize highly available and secure database systems supporting mission‑critical workloads, while driving automation, standardization, and collaboration within Agile teams.
Responsibilities:
Design, maintain, and scale Oracle environments, covering architecture, schema structuring, performance tuning, and operational best practices.
Implement and operate HA/DR solutions to ensure compliance with defined RTO/RPO objectives and support business continuity.
Diagnose and resolve performance issues, conducting SQL and instance tuning, optimizer analysis, and workload optimization.
Ensure database security and compliance, including encryption, auditing, access controls, and secure network configurations.
Automate operational workflows (provisioning, patching, backup/restore validation, lifecycle management) using Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices.
Set up monitoring, observability, and operational dashboards, defining SLAs, alerting mechanisms, and creating clear runbooks for support teams.
Qualifications and Skills:
Advanced Oracle knowledge: deep understanding of architecture, performance tuning, optimizer behavior, and schema design.
High Availability & Disaster Recovery: experience with designing and operating resilient configurations and recovery strategies.
Security & Networking: hands-on with privilege management, encryption, TLS, and regulatory/audit compliance.
Automation & DevOps: experience with IaC, CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and Python for scripting/automation.
Cloud Integration (AWS preferred): working with EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, DMS, or similar services for hybrid or migration scenarios.
Cross-platform familiarity: operational knowledge of PostgreSQL and MongoDB, applying comparable HA, tuning, and backup principles.
Halian Group
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Senior Database Administrator in Ghent, Belgium