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IT Database Administrator (English)

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What you’ll work on

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  • Install, configure and upgrade MSSQL and PostgreSQL database servers

  • Develop and maintain backup strategies and disaster-recovery setups

  • Implement database security, role-based access and encryption

  • Monitor and tune database performance, and optimize SQL queries

  • Investigate and resolve database incidents and perform root cause analysis

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Install, configure, and upgrade MSSQL and PostgreSQL database servers.
Develop and maintain backup strategies.
Implement database security policies, including role-based access controls, permissions, and encryption.
Analyze query performance and optimize SQL statements.
Investigate and resolve database incidents and service requests.

What you’ll bring

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Core experience

  • Experience with MSSQL and PostgreSQL (both mandatory)
  • Windows and Linux platforms
  • Microsoft Azure
  • ITSM tools such as ServiceNow, BMC Helix or JIRA
  • Advanced English, written and spoken

Preferred experience

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT or a related field
  • Grafana monitoring and Terraform experience
Qualification wording
Database: MSSQL, PostgreSQL (both mandatory)
Platforms: Windows, Linux
Cloud: Microsoft Azure
ITSM Tool: ServiceNow, BMC Helix, JIRA
Advanced English, written and spoken
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related discipline preferred, or equivalent professional experience.
Monitoring: Grafana Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
Education & alternatives
Education: - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related discipline preferred, or equivalent professional experience. Additional Information
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Likely evergreenReposted 2 times since Oct 5, 2026. A role that keeps coming back is often kept open to collect applications rather than to fill one seat.

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Nov 12, 20261 day ago
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Last seen by us
Nov 14, 2026
Reposted
2 times since Oct 5, 2026

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How this job compares

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At Eurofins, jobs usually come down by about day 9.

From 13,630 similar postings that came down, and 232 of Eurofins’s. Coming down is not always a hire.

Eurofins is hiring

46 open jobs

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  • 20% of open jobs were reposted
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  • Bash
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Azure
  • Grafana
  • PostgreSQL
  • Terraform
Where the posting names them
- Administer and support Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and other database-related Azure services where applicable. - Develop and maintain automation scripts using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar technologies to reduce operational effort and improve reliability. Operational Support and Reliability
- Continuously monitor and optimize database performance, capacity, and resource utilization. - Analyze query performance and optimize SQL statements. - Manage indexing strategies and partitioning.
Azure & Automation - Administer and support Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and other database-related Azure services where applicable. - Develop and maintain automation scripts using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar technologies to reduce operational effort and improve reliability.
- Manage indexing strategies and partitioning. Azure & Automation - Administer and support Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and other database-related Azure services where applicable.
- ITSM Tool: ServiceNow, BMC Helix, JIRA - Cloud: Microsoft Azure - Monitoring: Grafana
- Cloud: Microsoft Azure - Monitoring: Grafana - Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
Database Management - Install, configure, and upgrade MSSQL and PostgreSQL database servers. - Create, modify, and maintain database objects, including tables, indexes, views, and stored procedures.
- Platforms: Windows, Linux - Database: MSSQL, PostgreSQL (both mandatory) - ITSM Tool: ServiceNow, BMC Helix, JIRA
- Monitoring: Grafana - Infrastructure as Code: Terraform - Advanced English, written and spoken

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Demand for Data Engineer roles

New Data Engineer postings at the employers we follow are up 7% over the last 6 weeks compared with the 6 before.

Weekly new Data Engineer postings at the same employers, from the week of August 17 to the week of November 2. The fewest in a week was 860, the most 1,354, and the latest week had 1,335.
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About the role

We file this job under Data Engineer, by the work the posting describes.

Data engineers build and run the pipelines that copy data out of apps and outside services into a warehouse or lake, and fix them when a source changes or a load fails.

Expect SQL, Python, a cloud platform, a scheduler such as Airflow, and often tools for large data such as Spark or Kafka.

An analytics engineer works one step later, turning the raw data a data engineer lands into clean tables people can query.

US government figures for database architects

Median yearly pay, May 2025
$139,500
Expected change, 2025 to 2035
9.4% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs

The government has no code for data engineers, so these figures are for the closest group, database architects, which includes data integration and data warehousing specialists.

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-1243.

Job description

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Job Description

We are seeking an IT Database Administrator who will be responsible for installing, configuring, securing, maintaining, and optimizing database platforms to ensure their availability, performance, recoverability, and integrity. The role manages database lifecycle activities, implements backup and disaster recovery controls, monitors and resolves database-related issues, and provides technical support to application and development teams.

Responsibilities:

          Database Management

  • Install, configure, and upgrade MSSQL and PostgreSQL database servers.
  • Create, modify, and maintain database objects, including tables, indexes, views, and stored procedures.
  • Monitor database performance and implement tuning strategies.

    Backup & Recovery
  • Develop and maintain backup strategies.
  • Implement and maintain high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions, including replication, clustering, and failover technologies to ensure data integrity and availability.

          Security & Compliance

  • Implement and maintain database security and compliance controls.
  • Implement database security policies, including role-based access controls, permissions, and encryption.
  • Ensure compliance with applicable data protection regulations (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.).

          Performance Optmisation

  • Continuously monitor and optimize database performance, capacity, and resource utilization.
  • Analyze query performance and optimize SQL statements.
  • Manage indexing strategies and partitioning.

          Azure & Automation

  • Administer and support Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and other database-related Azure services where applicable.
  • Develop and maintain automation scripts using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar technologies to reduce operational effort and improve reliability.

          Operational Support and Reliability

  • Monitor database availability, capacity, scheduled jobs, backups, replication, and performance.
  • Investigate and resolve database incidents and service requests.
  • Perform root cause analysis for recurring or high-impact issues.
  • Maintain operational documentation and support planned production changes in accordance with established procedures.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure, DevOps, and application teams to support deployments, migrations, and operational improvements.

 

Qualifications

Qualifications and Experiences:

  • Platforms: Windows, Linux
  • Database: MSSQL, PostgreSQL (both mandatory)
  • ITSM Tool: ServiceNow, BMC Helix, JIRA
  • Cloud: Microsoft Azure
  • Monitoring: Grafana
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
  • Advanced English, written and spoken

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related discipline preferred, or equivalent professional experience.

Additional Information

Soft Skills

  • Ability to communicate technical issues, risks, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Professional proficiency in written and spoken English.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with infrastructure, application support, development, security, and business teams.
  • Proactive, accountable, and solution-oriented approach to operational issues.

We support your development! Do you feel like you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity!  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international network of independent life sciences companies, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.
The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In under 40 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 employees across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in over 1,000 independent companies across 59 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

The Eurofins network generated EUR 7.296 billion revenues in FY 2025, and has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies for almost three decades.

 

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

The group's key figures are approximately: Turnover of 6.5 billion euros, more than 940 laboratories in 62 countries and around 62,000 employees.

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