Budapest

On-site only

NIX, a global supplier of software engineering and IT outsourcing services, is looking for a

Senior Database Administrator

About the Project

This position is suited to an experienced database professional who takes ownership of production environments and treats database stability as an engineering discipline rather than a reactive function. You will work across a portfolio of engagements spanning multiple industries, with SQL Server as the constant across all of them. The environments you join will typically be in production and often inherited. Your role is to bring order: resolve what is broken, address what is slow, and establish the monitoring and standards that prevent issues from reaching users in the first place. Your first engagement is a stabilization project where you will have the opportunity to make a measurable impact from day one.

Responsibilities

Taking ownership of production database stability across engagements

Designing and implementing monitoring and alerting that surfaces failures before they are reported by users

Tuning performance across business-critical systems, including core applications, accounting platforms, CRM, and ERP environments

Reviewing and hardening backup procedures, recovery processes, security configurations, and maintenance jobs

Documenting your work clearly and establishing the standard for how databases are managed across the practice

The technical environment

Core platform: SQL Server – administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability

Infrastructure: On-premises, Azure, and hybrid environments

Application layer: .NET and Angular – sufficient familiarity to trace issues back to the data layer

Delivery: Continuous Delivery pipeline with versioned, reversible database change management

What we expect from you

Senior-level SQL Server administration experience in production environments, including systems that were inherited rather than designed from scratch

Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve incidents under time pressure, with a focus on root cause resolution

Strong command of performance tuning: execution plans, indexing strategy, wait statistics, TempDB and memory pressure, workload-appropriate configuration

Experience designing monitoring and alerting from the ground up: jobs, backups, disk, replication, query regressions

Solid backup and recovery practice: verified backups, tested restores, and RPO/RTO commitments the business can rely on

Ability to assess and improve legacy database structures safely and methodically

Familiarity with Continuous Delivery for database changes: versioning, safe migrations, and rollback procedures

Clear, direct communication with teams – including the ability to explain technical issues and their business impact in accessible terms

Will be a plus

Azure SQL managed services and hybrid connectivity

High availability configurations: Always On Availability Groups, failover clustering, log shipping

Administration automation via PowerShell or dbatools

Application-level profiling in .NET environments

Prior work with accounting, CRM, or ERP databases and their associated reporting workloads

What This Role Offers

This is a position for someone who has spent years working with production systems that matter. If you have built your expertise maintaining and improving complex environments and take professional pride in the reliability of the systems you are responsible for, this role is likely a strong fit.

NIX is a global supplier of software engineering and IT outsourcing services

NIX teams collaborate with partners from different countries. Our specialists have experience in developing innovative projects from ecommerce to cloud for some of the largest companies in the world, including from the Fortune 500. The teams are focused on stable development of the international IT market, business, and their own professional skills.