Database Administrator

About the Team / Business Unit This role sits within our client's Infrastructure and Digital Workplace Services organization, delivered by Cognizant as part of an updated enterprise support model. The team is responsible for the Database & Data Platform tower, working closely with security, service management, and business stakeholders to keep the client's technology estate resilient, secure, and future-ready across Finland. About You: You bring hands-on expertise across Microsoft SQL Server and other enterprise database platforms, with a strong track record in performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, and database security. You are comfortable working within ITSM-driven change, incident, and problem management processes, and enjoy solving complex, production-critical database issues. Your Key Result Areas: • Install, configure, upgrade, patch, migrate, clone, and decommission supported database platforms. • Operate Microsoft SQL Server and, where in scope, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB environments. • Monitor database health, availability, performance, capacity, jobs, storage, and replication. • Manage backup and recovery, restore validation, high availability, clustering, replication, and DR tests. • Tune SQL, indexes, queries, memory, I/O, and database configuration using approved diagnostic evidence. • Administer database security, service accounts, users, roles, privileges, encryption, auditing, and compliance controls. • Resolve incidents and problems, support P1/P2 restoration, produce RCA, and execute controlled changes through ITSM. • Automate routine administration through PowerShell, T-SQL, PL/SQL, shell, Python, or approved tooling. • Maintain CMDB records, SOPs, build standards, support documentation, and operational runbooks.

About You: You bring hands-on expertise across Microsoft SQL Server and other enterprise database platforms, with a strong track record in performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, and database security. You are comfortable working within ITSM-driven change, incident, and problem management processes, and enjoy solving complex, production-critical database issues. Your Key Result Areas: • Install, configure, upgrade, patch, migrate, clone, and decommission supported database platforms. • Operate Microsoft SQL Server and, where in scope, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB environments. • Monitor database health, availability, performance, capacity, jobs, storage, and replication. • Manage backup and recovery, restore validation, high availability, clustering, replication, and DR tests. • Tune SQL, indexes, queries, memory, I/O, and database configuration using approved diagnostic evidence. • Administer database security, service accounts, users, roles, privileges, encryption, auditing, and compliance controls. • Resolve incidents and problems, support P1/P2 restoration, produce RCA, and execute controlled changes through ITSM. • Automate routine administration through PowerShell, T-SQL, PL/SQL, shell, Python, or approved tooling. • Maintain CMDB records, SOPs, build standards, support documentation, and operational runbooks. Required & nice to have Skills: Must Haves: 1.) 7-10+ years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator (or equivalent Senior Administrator role) within enterprise infrastructure environments. 2.) Strong working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server administration and Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL / MariaDB as applicable. 3.) Demonstrated experience in HA/DR, clustering, replication, backup and recovery. 4.) Working knowledge of Performance tuning and capacity management. 5.) Ability to work within enterprise change, incident, problem, security, audit, and service management (ITSM) controls. 6.) Strong ownership, analytical troubleshooting, stakeholder communication, and documentation discipline.

Your Key Result Areas: • Install, configure, upgrade, patch, migrate, clone, and decommission supported database platforms. • Operate Microsoft SQL Server and, where in scope, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB environments. • Monitor database health, availability, performance, capacity, jobs, storage, and replication. • Manage backup and recovery, restore validation, high availability, clustering, replication, and DR tests. • Tune SQL, indexes, queries, memory, I/O, and database configuration using approved diagnostic evidence. • Administer database security, service accounts, users, roles, privileges, encryption, auditing, and compliance controls. • Resolve incidents and problems, support P1/P2 restoration, produce RCA, and execute controlled changes through ITSM. • Automate routine administration through PowerShell, T-SQL, PL/SQL, shell, Python, or approved tooling. • Maintain CMDB records, SOPs, build standards, support documentation, and operational runbooks. Required & nice to have Skills: Must Haves: 1.) 7-10+ years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator (or equivalent Senior Administrator role) within enterprise infrastructure environments. 2.) Strong working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server administration and Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL / MariaDB as applicable. 3.) Demonstrated experience in HA/DR, clustering, replication, backup and recovery. 4.) Working knowledge of Performance tuning and capacity management. 5.) Ability to work within enterprise change, incident, problem, security, audit, and service management (ITSM) controls. 6.) Strong ownership, analytical troubleshooting, stakeholder communication, and documentation discipline. Nice to Have/ Your chance to grow 1.) Microsoft Azure Database Administrator or SQL certification 2.) Relevant Oracle or PostgreSQL certification 3.) ITIL Foundation 4.) Opportunity to broaden exposure across Scripting, automation, monitoring and ITSM and continuous improvement initiatives within the account.

Required & nice to have Skills: Must Haves: 1.) 7-10+ years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator (or equivalent Senior Administrator role) within enterprise infrastructure environments. 2.) Strong working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server administration and Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL / MariaDB as applicable. 3.) Demonstrated experience in HA/DR, clustering, replication, backup and recovery. 4.) Working knowledge of Performance tuning and capacity management. 5.) Ability to work within enterprise change, incident, problem, security, audit, and service management (ITSM) controls. 6.) Strong ownership, analytical troubleshooting, stakeholder communication, and documentation discipline. Nice to Have/ Your chance to grow 1.) Microsoft Azure Database Administrator or SQL certification 2.) Relevant Oracle or PostgreSQL certification 3.) ITIL Foundation 4.) Opportunity to broaden exposure across Scripting, automation, monitoring and ITSM and continuous improvement initiatives within the account.