# SQL Server and Azure Database Engineer (Always On, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) for NATO with security clearance

**Company:** WLG
**Department:** Infrastructure & Platform Support
**Location:** Braine-l'Alleud

This is a database platform role rather than a query-tuning one. The estate is mixed — SQL Server at its centre, Azure alongside it, and open-source engines around the edges — and the job is to keep all of it available, fast and recoverable while it moves steadily towards the cloud.

It suits a database engineer who automates what they do twice, who takes high availability and disaster recovery seriously enough to test them, and who writes the runbook before it is needed.

**What you would be doing**

- Install, configure, upgrade, patch and back up database systems on premises and in the cloud.
- Design and support high availability and disaster recovery — availability groups, failover clustering, replication and a backup strategy that has actually been restored.
- Monitor performance, availability and capacity, and deal with problems before they become incidents.
- Build automation — scripts, workflows and pipelines — for administration, monitoring and operational reporting.
- Support migration and modernisation towards cloud database services.
- Work with the application, infrastructure and cloud teams on performance, reliability and scale.
- Keep access control, encryption, auditing and vulnerability management in good order, and the documentation with it.

**What you would bring**

- Expert-level SQL Server administration, tuning and troubleshooting.
- Real experience of availability groups, failover clustering, replication and recovery.
- Cloud database work, preferably on Azure — managed instance, database services, virtual machines.
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and MySQL or MariaDB, and ideally MongoDB.
- Automation in PowerShell, T-SQL or Python, and comfort with infrastructure as code and deployment pipelines.
- Sound fundamentals: relational design, indexing, query optimisation and capacity planning.

The work is full time on site in Braine-l'Alleud, in normal office conditions.

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