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Database Engineer – Banking Sector

Your Mission

As a Database Engineer within our Database Team, you will be responsible for the implementation, maintenance, and operational excellence of database and reporting platforms supporting critical banking applications.

You will play a key role in ensuring that our database environments are highly available, secure, performant, and scalable, while collaborating closely with infrastructure and development teams.





Role

Your Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable database systems aligned with business and regulatory requirements
  • Ensure smooth operation, maintenance, and upgrades of database platforms (backups, transaction logs, indexing, performance tuning, etc.)
  • Contribute to deployment and patching automation initiatives
  • Participate actively in IT Operations (on-call/operational duties approximately 1 day per week)
  • Review and validate database schema changes, ensuring compliance with standards and optimal design choices
  • Investigate and resolve performance issues and functional incidents in collaboration with application teams
  • Maintain and improve deployment pipelines and promote best practices across teams
  • Build strong working relationships with infrastructure, security, and development teams


Profile

Technical Skills & Experience

  • Deep expertise in Microsoft SQL Server and its internals
  • Strong knowledge of:
  • Microsoft Active Directory
  • Power BI / Report Server
  • SSAS
  • Microsoft Cluster Services
  • Windows Server (including WSUS and vulnerability management tools such as Nexpose)
  • Windows Server–based schedulers
  • Proficiency in PowerShell scripting
  • Experience with PKI (Microsoft Certificate Authority Services)
  • Strong understanding of server and client security
  • Solid knowledge of Linux (RedHat)
  • Experience with automation tools such as Ansible and PowerShell
  • Ability to analyze system stress (CPU, IOPS, memory, indexing, cache hits) and propose concrete improvements
  • Familiarity with HP and Supermicro servers, including iLO management
  • Experience with Git, JIRA, and Confluence

Soft Skills

  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly
  • Curious mindset and eagerness to stay up to date with emerging technologies
  • Fluent in English, with good knowledge of French or Dutch
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Flexible, reliable, and available when needed
  • Interest in cloud technologies and future evolutions
  • Clean certificate of good conduct
  • B driving license

Nice to Have (Assets)

  • Experience with VMware vCenter and ESXi
  • Knowledge of backup solutions (e.g. Commvault)
  • Basic networking knowledge
  • Basic Linux system administration
  • Familiarity with Go (Golang)
  • Exposure to Azure technologies (Azure Entra ID, AI services)
  • Basic experience with F5 load balancers


Offer

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Benefits
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