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Database Administrator - Deadline 16/10/26

AlmavivA de BelgiqueThe Hague, Zuid-Holland, NetherlandsFull-timeSalary not listed · Typical pay in NetherlandsPosted Oct 13, 2026
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Database administration in Virtualized environments: database administration in virtual environments, e.g. VMWare, and virtual machine administration of operating systems underlying the DBMSs, including Linux RedHat, CentOS.

Database administration in Containerized environments: database administration in containerized environments including Kubernetes

Security management: Enforce data security and data protection policies by managing security and database access, identifying and auditing user access of sensitive databases in compliance with procedures and regulations.

Incident management:  follow structured processes for rapidly detecting, diagnosing, and resolving service disruptions to restore availability and ensure data integrity. Manage incidents using ITSM tools, e.g. ServiceNow

Change and Release management: follow controlled processes for planning and validation for deploying releases of new database systems or changes to existing database into (pre-)production environments, minimizing downtime and preventing data loss.

Health monitoring: defining, gathering, managing metrics for monitoring databases, operating systems and servers to ensure systems remain healthy; checking error logs, system events, database events, disk space and storage events use monitoring tools including SCOM to identify, prevent and resolve issues.

Database maintenance: installing, configuring, scheduling, monitoring Database Jobs for Backups, Integrity checks, Index maintenance, Update Statistics, etc.

Backup and recovery: define, create, schedule database backup plans and strategy, ensure restorability, integrate Database-level backups with Operating System-level backup systems like NetBackup, manage Data Retention.

Performance monitoring, tuning, and optimization: define and gather critical performance metrics for DBMSs and OSs to ensure fast database performance using tools like SolarWinds DPA; assess data access patterns and query plans for improving performance by tuning and optimizing database queries.

Business Continuity: ensure to meet SLAs by configuring High Availability & Disaster Recovery, defining, implementing, configuring, monitoring technologies including Galera, MaxScale, and Data Replication.

DevOps: define, create, implement DevOps pipelines for deploying database changes into production using Puppet, AzureDevops, FlyWay.

Automation: define, implement, schedule, monitor scripts for automation of repetitive, recurring tasks using Bash, Puppet, Python, Powershell, etc.

Data modelling: design, reverse engineer, document conceptual and physical database models and define and update standard operating procedures.

01REQUIREMENTS

Mininum 11 years of IT experience

A minimum of 6 years of experience in Database Administration of mission critical production databases with sensitive data in high-security environments

A minimum of 5 years of experience in Database Administration with the following tools and technologies: MariaDB (or MySQL)

A minimum of 5 years of experience with the following technologies: PostgreSQL

A minimum of 2 years experience in Database Administration with Kubernetes

Above mentioned experiences must be in environments: On-premise, air-gapped

Knowledge of methodologies for:

  • Conceptual data modelling

  • Physical data modelling

  • Data model normalization

  • Entity-Attribute-Relationship design

Knowledge of ITIL processes for systematic management of complex IT environments

Deadline 16/10/26

Delivery mode : Proximity (The Hague)

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Updated Oct 26, 2026
Pay benchmark
Average wage, Netherlands
EUR 61,492 average / year

Source: OECD Average annual wages, 2025

Cost of living · Netherlands
81.4 vs New York = 100

UN living-cost index for Netherlands (ICSC post adjustment 42.9), as of 1 Oct 2026.

Source: ICSC post adjustment classifications (icsc.un.org)

Work permit route
  • Highly Skilled Migrant: Recognised sponsor and salary threshold
  • EU Blue Card: Degree and salary threshold
  • Orientation year for highly educated persons: Graduates of Dutch or top world universities, 1 year job search

Official routes: Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND)

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