Previously submitted candidates were found not compliant due to the following:
- The candidate has developer background. He has MS SharePoint Administration skills. His answers was general however was not comprehensive.
- The candidate has Oracle Database expertise not MSSQL. He doesn’t work with MS Azure technologies.
Deadline Date: Friday 9 October 2026
Requirement: Database Administrator
Location: Braine-l'Alleud, BE
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Total Scope of the request (hours): 350
Required Start Date: 16 November 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties & Role:
- Manage installation, configuration, upgrades, and backups of database systems and related products both on-premises and in the cloud
- Design, develop, and maintain data collection, transformation, and integration processes across multiple on-premises and cloud RDBMS platforms
- Monitor database performance, availability, and capacity, proactively identifying and resolving issues to ensure optimal service delivery.
- Develop and manage automation tools, scripts, and workflows for database administration, monitoring, maintenance, and operational reporting.
- Produce dynamic reports and standardized templates to support database configuration management, performance monitoring, and lifecycle tracking;
- Support database migrations and modernization initiatives involving Azure and other cloud database services.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and cloud engineering teams to ensure optimal database performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Establish and maintain data governance and quality standards within reporting and integration processes;
- Stay current with database technology roadmaps, contributing to continuous improvement of lifecycle management, security, and data reliability.
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, architectural designs, and support runbooks.
Requirements
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- Expert-level knowledge and hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration, development, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and optimization.
- Strong experience designing, implementing, and supporting High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions including: Always On Availability Groups; Failover Clustering; Replication; Backup and Recovery strategies.
- Experience managing databases across cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure (Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure Virtual Machines)
- Experience on administering and supporting open-source database technologies including PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB.
- Experience with NoSQL database technologies, preferably MongoDB
- Proficiency in database automation and scripting using PowerShell, T-SQL, and/or Python.
- Strong understanding of relational database design, normalization, indexing strategies, query optimization, and capacity planning
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and database deployment automation practices
- Skilled in containerized and virtualized environments.
- Strong understanding of database monitoring, observability, and performance management tools.
- Ensures data quality, consistency, and governance across integrated systems, following organizational data standards and compliance requirements;
- Implements secure database management practices, including access control, encryption, auditing, and vulnerability management.
- Lead technical investigations, root cause analysis, and resolution of complex database incidents and problems.