Deadline Date:
Friday 18 July 2025
Requirement:
Database Administrator
Location:
Braine-l'Alleud, BELGIUM
Time On-Site:
100%
Not to Exceed Rate:
63 EUR
Total Scope of the request (h
ours):
418
Required Start Date:
25 August 2025
Required Security Clearance:
NATO SECRET
Please do NOT
apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:
- Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
- Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
- Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position.
Duties and Role:
- Monitoring the performance of assigned systems and the definition and implementation of adequate measures ensuring an optimal performance and high availability of the DB services;
- Defining DB backup strategies and ensuring a valid and maintained recovery plan is in place;
- Defining and implementing an upgrade strategy to keep the DB environment current;
- Management/Upgrade/Patching of BI stack, composed of Oracle Analytics, Weblogic, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Oracle Analytics Server (OAS).
- Selecting and implementing appropriate DB infrastructure configurations in support of business/technology architectures;
- Performs routine installation, re-configuration, backups of database and related products on on-premises and cloud environments.
- Develops and configures tools to enable automation of database administration tasks.
- Defining and implementing an upgrade strategy to keep the DB platforms up to date;
- Keeping up to date Software Lifecycle (roadmap) management of database products ;
- Monitors performance statistics and create reports.
Skill, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- Strong knowledge the DBMS technologies (Oracle, MySQL Server and PostgreSQL) and sound experience on at least two;
- Good understanding of MySQL High Availability/Disaster Recovery solutions (MySQL InnoDB Cluster, MySQL InnoDB Replicaset, MySQL InnoDB ClusterSet, MySQL Replication)
- Good understanding of ORDS, Apache HTTP and Tomcat administration
- Current and in-depth knowledge and practical working experience of latest version of the operating systems (Linux/ UNIX and MS Windows Server );
- A good understanding of more advanced architectures on High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions, like server clustering and virtual infrastructures;