MS-SQL Database Administrator L3 - Madrid

A leading international financial services company is looking for a MS SQL Database Administrator (L3) to join its IT Platform team in Madrid. The selected candidate will be responsible for administering and supporting large-scale, business-critical MS SQL database environments across Europe, ensuring high availability, performance, stability, and reliability for core banking services. What will you do in this role?

• Administer and provide L3 support for large-scale MS SQL Server environments, ensuring high availability, performance, and stability.
• Monitor, analyze, and optimize database performance and capacity in production environments.
• Manage backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes to ensure data integrity.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and incident resolution for critical systems.
• Design, build, and support new database and server architectures.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and global IT teams to support business-critical platforms.
• Work under ITIL methodologies, participating in incident, problem, and change management.
• Contribute to continuous service improvement and knowledge sharing within the team.

• Proven experience in MS SQL Server administration (2008R2 to 2019) in enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in high availability and resilient database architectures.
• Experience providing L3 production support for critical systems.
• Solid background in performance analysis, monitoring, backup, and recovery strategies.
• Experience working in structured, demanding environments with strict service levels.
• Fluent English (B2/C1), spoken and written (mandatory).
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field (preferred, not mandatory).
• ITIL Foundation certification is desirable.

• Competitive salary according to experience.
• Opportunity to work in a global, international environment.
• Exposure to large-scale, critical infrastructure projects.
• Professional growth and continuous learning opportunities.
• On-site role in Madrid, with participation in on-call rotations (with compensation)