Database Administrator
Location: Zurich
Languages: German and English
Contract duration: 12 months
Start date: around December 2026
Required Background
- 8+ years of experience in Database Administration, Database Engineering or Database Platform Support
- Strong experience supporting business-critical production environments with high availability requirements
- Proven background in database operations, incident management, problem resolution and platform lifecycle management.
- Experience working within regulated enterprise environments, ideally banking, financial services, insurance or other highly controlled industries.
- Strong understanding of database security, resilience, backup and recovery frameworks.
- Exposure to infrastructure operations, change management and production support processes.
Technical Skills
- Strong hands-on experience administering Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and/or IBM DB2 database environments.
- Experience with database performance tuning, high availability solutions, disaster recovery, backup and recovery processes, and database monitoring tools.
- Solid knowledge of SQL, shell scripting, database security controls and production support within enterprise-scale environments.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Oracle RAC and other clustering technologies.
- Exposure to database migration, integration and upgrade initiatives.
- Linux/UNIX platform knowledge.
- Automation and database tooling expertise.
- Experience within financial services or other regulated industries.
- Knowledge of high-availability and disaster recovery architectures.
Should you be interested, please send your application outlining your relevant experience and availability.
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