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Mission du poste
About the role A well-established Belgian financial services organisation based in Leuven is looking for an experienced SQL Server DBA to join their infrastructure team on a freelance basis. The position has opened due to an internal team change and represents a genuine operational need — not a pipeline exercise. You'll be joining a mature, collaborative IT infrastructure team of around 15-20 people, working alongside highly experienced database professionals. The environment is primarily on-premises Microsoft SQL Server, with a roadmap toward Azure SQL in the coming years. Contract details Location: Leuven (hybrid — 2 days on-site per week) Start: ASAP Duration: End of year, with strong likelihood of extension Rate: market rate Languages: Dutch + English required What you'll be doing Own the full SQL Server infrastructure — installation, configuration, management, security and lifecycle Monitor the environment daily, proactively detecting and resolving issues before they impact business continuity Analyse complex incidents and lead Root Cause Analysis Design and implement structural improvements to performance, stability and security Manage upgrades, migrations and decommissions across SQL systems Serve as the technical escalation point for colleagues on database incidents Maintain and improve the team's knowledge base — runbooks, documentation and training materials Must haves Hands-on SQL Server DBA experience (2019/2022/2025) T-SQL: queries, stored procedures, DDL Performance tuning at infrastructure level Always On Availability Groups in production SQL Server Replication Windows Server environment knowledge ITIL process awareness: incident, problem, change management Dutch working language (daily team communication) Nice to haves PostgreSQL or MySQL experience Azure SQL / Azure cloud exposureSSIS / SSRS PowerShell scripting or TerraForm Monitoring tools: Grafana, Sentryone, Dynatrace Agile/SAFe experience (Jira, sprints) The team You'll be working in a multi-cluster infrastructure team with deep collective expertise. The team has a fixed collaboration day on Wednesday. Strong medior profiles are welcome — years of experience matter less than the depth and relevance of your SQL Server skillset.
