Senior Database Administrator (f/m/d)

As a Senior Database Administrator, you play a crucial role in ensuring that our business-critical data is always available, secure, and reliable. From designing resilient architectures to troubleshooting performance issues, you’ll help keep our systems running smoothly, enabling the business to thrive with confidence in its data foundation.

• Ensure database system availability in a 24×7 environment, including out-of-hours on-call support
• Design, implement, and maintain sound backup, recovery, and disaster recovery (DR) procedures
• Monitor and troubleshoot performance and concurrency issues to optimize database efficiency
• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain multiple SQL environments following company standards and best practices
• Implement and maintain database security in line with corporate IT security guidelines
• Design and enhance database architecture and maintenance tasks, ensuring scalability and resilience
• Provide guidance on SQL Server internals to development teams and support application code releases
• Proactively identify potential issues and raise business awareness before they impact operations

• Higher technical education (or equivalent experience)
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a SQL Server Database Administrator
• Solid expertise with SQL Server 2016/2019/2022 and Azure SQL
• Experience managing multi-terabyte databases and highly concurrent OLTP transactions
• Strong background in SQL Server administration: performance tuning & monitoring, backup strategies, capacity planning, user access & security, business continuity, and disaster recovery
• Familiarity with SAN storage, Windows, or PowerShell scripting is an advantage
• Experience with version control tools is a plus
• Passion for SQL Server internals and a continuous improvement mindset

• Flexible working hours, hybrid work model, and a healthy work-life balance culture
• Training budget to support your personal and professional growth
• Daily fresh fruits, a wide selection of teas, fair trade coffee, and an in-house canteen at our Vienna HQ
• Subsidized public transportation, plus access to pool e-bikes and e-cars for both business and personal use
• On-site fitness room, MyClubs app points, along with fun sport- and company events
• A wide range of local employee discounts, offers, and healthcare benefits
• We are proud to offer a competitive base salary range of 70.000 - 75.000 EUR gross/year (paid in 14 salaries), thoughtfully designed to align with industry standards, taking into consideration the candidate's qualifications, skills, and relevant experience