Senior Database Administrator (m/f)

Located in Bissen (Luxembourg)

Information Technology / December 11, 2020

Maintaining and monitoring existing databases
Developing standards and guidelines to rule out potential risks and DB problems
Ensuring that all databases comply with appropriate standards, resilience, monitoring, DR plans, backup & storage capabilities, and operational readiness
Tuning and optimization (queries, I/O)
Troubleshooting and resolving database integrity, performance, blocking, deadlocking, replication, log, security, and other issues
Installing and maintaining databases including release execution, backups, user management and migrations
Identifying and evaluating industry trends in database systems to serve as a source of information and advice for IT management
Carrying out additional support tasks, database deployments, installations and configurations

An academic degree in computer science, engineering or a related field with 2+ years of experience in IT
Day to day database administration experience with DB2, MongoDB and MS SQL databases
A good knowledge of:
- HADR, TSA, DB2 clustering
- IBM CDC platform
- distributed databases
- scripting skills (SQL, Shell)
- Linux/Unix
- application servers such as Docker and Tomcat
Experience with JIRA/Confluence is considered an asset
Good analytical and teamwork skills
Strong motivation to take over responsibilities and ownership of topics
Positive “can do” attitude
Innovative approach to work, constantly looking for opportunities how to improve the existing system
Good communication skills in English (spoken and written), German or French is considered an asset