Database Administrator (d/f/m)
Permanent Employment – Finland
As a Database Administrator, you will administer and support enterprise database platforms across on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments. This is a Senior Administrator-level position requiring 7-10+ years of relevant experience, supporting our client's infrastructure and digital workplace services in Finland.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq-100:CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 194 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @Cognizant.
About the Team / Business Unit
This role sits within our client's Infrastructure and Digital Workplace Services organization, delivered by Cognizant as part of an updated enterprise support model. The team is responsible for the Database & Data Platform tower, working closely with security, service management, and business stakeholders to keep the client's technology estate resilient, secure, and future-ready across Finland.
About You:
You bring hands-on expertise across Microsoft SQL Server and other enterprise database platforms, with a strong track record in performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, and database security. You are comfortable working within ITSM-driven change, incident, and problem management processes, and enjoy solving complex, production-critical database issues.
Your Key Result Areas:
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, migrate, clone, and decommission supported database platforms.
• Operate Microsoft SQL Server and, where in scope, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB environments.
• Monitor database health, availability, performance, capacity, jobs, storage, and replication.
• Manage backup and recovery, restore validation, high availability, clustering, replication, and DR tests.
• Tune SQL, indexes, queries, memory, I/O, and database configuration using approved diagnostic evidence.
• Administer database security, service accounts, users, roles, privileges, encryption, auditing, and compliance controls.
• Resolve incidents and problems, support P1/P2 restoration, produce RCA, and execute controlled changes through ITSM.
• Automate routine administration through PowerShell, T-SQL, PL/SQL, shell, Python, or approved tooling.
• Maintain CMDB records, SOPs, build standards, support documentation, and operational runbooks.
Required & nice to have Skills:
Must Haves:
1.) 7-10+ years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator (or equivalent Senior Administrator role) within enterprise infrastructure environments.
2.) Strong working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server administration and Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL / MariaDB as applicable.
3.) Demonstrated experience in HA/DR, clustering, replication, backup and recovery.
4.) Working knowledge of Performance tuning and capacity management.
5.) Ability to work within enterprise change, incident, problem, security, audit, and service management (ITSM) controls.
6.) Strong ownership, analytical troubleshooting, stakeholder communication, and documentation discipline.
Nice to Have/ Your chance to grow
1.) Microsoft Azure Database Administrator or SQL certification
2.) Relevant Oracle or PostgreSQL certification
3.) ITIL Foundation
4.) Opportunity to broaden exposure across Scripting, automation, monitoring and ITSM and continuous improvement initiatives within the account.
コグニザントについて
コグニザント（NASDAQ: CTSH）は、AI Builderおよびテクノロジーサービスプロバイダーとして、お客様にフルスタックのAIソリューションを構築することで、AI投資と企業価値を結ぶ架け橋となっています。業界、ビジネスプロセス、エンジニアリングに関する当社の深い専門知識を活かし、組織固有のビジネス環境をテクノロジー・システムに組み込みます。これにより、人間の可能性を最大限に引き出し、確かな成果を実現するとともに、急速に変化する世界においてグローバル企業が常に一歩先を行くための支援を行っています。 詳細については、cognizant.ai をご覧ください。
雇用に関する追加情報
本募集に記載されている報酬情報は、掲載日時点で正確なものです。Cognizantは、適用される法令に従い、いつでも本情報を変更する権利を留保します。
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