Database Engineer

Take operational responsibility for enterprise databases in a Malta-based technical team. The work spans installation and routine maintenance through performance investigations and recovery planning, with collaboration across infrastructure, security and service delivery.

Your responsibilities

• Install, configure, patch and upgrade database platforms.
• Monitor health and availability and investigate performance issues.
• Maintain backup, restoration and disaster-recovery processes.
• Support high-availability configurations and business continuity.
• Resolve database and middleware incidents and maintain operational documentation.
• Improve automation and support security, compliance and service-level requirements.

Experience and skills

• At least two years of database administration experience.
• A relevant degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Administration experience with at least one of SQL Server, Oracle Database or IBM DB2.
• Strong SQL, backup and recovery knowledge, plus an understanding of high availability.
• Experience with monitoring such as Nagios or Zabbix.
• Analytical troubleshooting, clear communication and independent working skills.

Additional experience that would help

• IBM WebSphere, IBM MQ, Cognos or other middleware experience.
• Azure SQL, scripting, automation or managed-services exposure.
• Relevant technical certifications.

Working arrangement and package

An on-call support rotation is required. The brief also lists health insurance, flexible working arrangements, training and certification support, career development and wellbeing initiatives.

Apply through Huwell Consultancy using vacancy reference HC-3295. Include experience relevant to this position and any questions you would like to discuss.