Senior Database Administrator — Oracle (M/F)

About the job

Assignment with potential for permanent contract

Job Context

To support growing needs, we are looking for an experienced DBA to strengthen a team of 7 people and contribute to a better distribution of operational workload.

You will gradually take over activities currently handled by another entity. Your arrival will also support two colleagues engaged with Cloud environments, whose availability for database administration is decreasing.

The role initially involves a strong operational focus, with the possibility to later participate in projects.

Your Responsibilities

• Ensure the administration and operational maintenance of Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases.
• Guarantee their availability, reliability and performance.
• Perform monitoring, maintenance operations, backups and restorations.
• Diagnose and resolve incidents in collaboration with technical teams.
• Take over existing activities and ensure knowledge transfer with colleagues in Luxembourg.
• Document procedures and contribute to improving operational practices.
• Participate in support and on-call arrangements.
• Gradually contribute to projects evolving the database environments.

Profile Sought

• About 7 years of experience in database administration, with solid practice in production environments.
• Operational experience with Oracle (knowledge of SQL Server and PostgreSQL is an asset), with autonomy suited to handling routine activities and incidents.
• Mastery of availability, performance, backup and restoration issues.
• Rigor, sense of priorities and ability to act methodically during incidents.
• Team spirit and aptitude to take over an existing scope in collaboration with several stakeholders.
• Knowledge of AWS is an advantage.

Residence in Switzerland is mandatory for this role

Organisation and Prospects

You will join a team of 7 people and participate in an on-call rotation. On-call duties are infrequent but may require significant mobilisation when an incident occurs.

The priority will be to strengthen the team’s operational capacity and stabilise the workload. Ultimately, the role may evolve towards more project activities, with a prospect of permanent contract.