Requirement: Database Administrator
Location: Braine-l'Alleud, BELGIUM
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Not to Exceed Rate: 95 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours): 836
Required Start Date: 9 February 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties & Role:
Within the Platform as A Service (PAAS) Service Area of NISC, the incumbent is responsible for the installation, 24/7 operation, monitoring, maintenance, and system administration of all assigned systems related to provide the Database platforms services
- 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 Oracle Analytics with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Oracle Analytics Server (OAS)
- 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