MS SQL Server Database Admin (SQL Server)

Location: Bucharest - Dacia One, Romania

Company

hirify.global Romania provides software development, data management, risk and compliance, audit, and retail operations services to ING units worldwide. The role supports Bank Mendes Gans (BMG), ING's wholesale banking subsidiary focused on cash management, liquidity management, and transaction banking solutions.

What you will do

• Own SQL Server environments across installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, monitoring, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management.
• Improve reliability and performance through capacity management, query optimization, profiling, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Manage database changes, CI/CD deployments, release controls, backups, restores, recovery, and operational resilience.
• Monitor production services, investigate incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and participate in on-call and production support rotations.
• Automate database operations using scripting, PowerShell, standardization, Azure DevOps Pipelines, and self-healing capabilities.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, architecture, and security teams while documenting operations and supporting audits and risk assessments.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a SQL database administrator.
• Strong Microsoft SQL Server database administration experience, including fine-tuning database models and data-intensive operations.
• Experience implementing high-availability database environments such as MS SQL Server Always On.
• Hands-on T-SQL proficiency: independently writing, analyzing, and optimizing queries and stored procedures, interpreting execution plans, and troubleshooting query performance.
• Strong scripting and automation knowledge with PowerShell.
• Knowledge of source control, CI/CD, and documentation tools including Azure DevOps, Git, and Confluence; ability to define CI/CD pipelines and manage DevOps activities throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Experience with scheduling tools, database profiling, and exposing meaningful metrics for monitoring and alerting with tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.
• Proven experience in a DevOps team owning, implementing, and managing applications in scope.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, problem-solving, stakeholder-management, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills; ability to work proactively in a cross-border international team.
• Completed Bachelor's or Master's education with a strong analytical background in Computer Science, Cybernetics, Software Engineering, Financial Engineering, or an equivalent field.
• Advanced English is required.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with the Elastic stack and log querying.
• Experience or affinity with IT security concepts.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working approach and a highly collaborative environment with constructive feedback.
• Work in a large international banking organization supporting global treasury and transaction banking services.
• Focus on engineering ownership, continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and reducing key-person dependencies.
• Participation in production support and on-call rotations where required.