Would you like to join the leading international intergovernmental organization? This role offers a defining opportunity to lead the evolution of critical data infrastructure. As a forward-thinking Database Administrator, you will be at the forefront of a strategic transition, moving from on-premises systems to a modern, cloud-native architecture. You will serve as both guardian and innovator of essential data assets, ensuring their integrity, performance, and security. Responsibilities: Cloud Migration & Architecture: Lead and execute the migration of database systems from on-premises to cloud environments (primarily Azure), ensuring data integrity, security, and optimal performance. Design and maintain advanced cloud database architectures. High Availability & Disaster Recovery (HA/DR): Design, implement, and manage sophisticated HA/DR solutions, including clustering, replication, and failover strategies, to ensure business continuity for mission-critical systems. Automation Engineering: Develop, configure, and maintain automation tools and scripts (using Ansible, PowerShell) to standardize and streamline database provisioning, deployment, patching, and administrative tasks. Integrate database management into CI/CD pipelines. Performance & Lifecycle Management: Perform routine installation, configuration, and upgrades of database software across on-prem and cloud environments. Proactively monitor, tune, and manage the full software lifecycle of database products. Reporting & Intelligence: Develop dynamic dashboards and reports (using Power BI, SSRS, Grafana) to provide actionable insights into database health, performance, capacity, and compliance. Multi-Platform Expertise: Maintain and support core Microsoft SQL Server environments while applying foundational knowledge to other RDBMS platforms like Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL as required. Backup & Security: Implement and validate robust backup, recovery, and security strategies in alignment with industry best practices for both cloud and on-premises deployments. Essential Qualifications & Experience: Extensive Expertise: Proven, extensive experience as a Database Administrator or Engineer, with deep, hands-on proficiency in Microsoft SQL Server in both on-premises and cloud (Azure) environments. Cloud Database Mastery: Demonstrable proficiency with cloud-native database solutions, specifically Azure SQL Database (Managed Instance, Elastic Pools), including deployment, scaling, and management automation. Migration & Automation: Proven track record in planning and executing database migrations from on-premises to the cloud. Strong scripting and automation skills in PowerShell and experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible. High-Availability Architectures: A strong understanding and practical experience with advanced High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions, such as Failover Clustering, Always On Availability Groups, and log shipping. Reporting Tools: Hands-on experience with at least two reporting/BI technologies such as Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or Grafana. Desirable Experience and Education: Experience with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) for ETL processes. Professional certification (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Database – Specialty). Practical experience with other database technologies (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL). Knowledge of virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). Experience working within an Agile/DevOps framework. If you've read the description and feel this role is a great match, we'd love to hear from you! Click "Apply for this job" to be directed to a brief questionnaire. It should only take a few moments to complete, and we'll be in touch promptly if your experience aligns with our needs.