Database Consultant

Location:
Madrid, Spain (Partially Remote) Contract: Part time Role: Database Consultant with Database Consulting team. Scope: Client operates around 1,700 relational databases across multiple environments and platforms, primarily on‑premises with some cloud. Technology landscape: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, IBM Db2. Participate in technical assessment of ~1,700 databases. Perform discovery, inventory, and characterization. Analyze versions, configurations, lifecycle status, operational health. Identify risks and improvement opportunities related to performance, capacity, availability, backup, HA, security, monitoring, versions, configuration, best practices. Analyze large data volumes to identify patterns and trends. Define technical recommendations and action plans. Classify and prioritize databases based on risk, criticality, and remediation requirements. Participate in remediation, modernization, rationalization initiatives. Perform advanced DBA and troubleshooting. Participate in upgrades, migrations, consolidations, cross‑platform movements. Design and develop scripts to automate discovery, assessment, and administration. Contribute to standards and best practices definition. Prepare technical reports and executive presentations.



Collaborate with infrastructure, application, cloud, operations teams. Provide guidance and mentoring to juniors. Technology

skills:
Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, IBM Db2. Experience across multiple platforms valued, not required for all. DBA

skills:
Administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, HA and disaster recovery, monitoring, capacity planning, security, patching, migrations, consolidations, configuration analysis, lifecycle management. Assessment and Consulting: Discovery, assessment, health checks, large inventory analysis, risk identification, recommendation, rationalization, consolidation, modernization, roadmap. Automation: Scripting (SQL / T‑SQL / PL/SQL), PowerShell, Bash, Python. Cloud: Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Requirements:
+3 years DBA/consultant experience, large‑scale enterprise environments, database estate support, hands‑on with at least one listed technology, prior assessment or modernization projects.

Skills:
Analytical, problem solving, results oriented, independent work, communication, customer focus, teamwork, organization, mentoring.

📌 French Data Curator For Database Maintenance (Madrid)
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📍 Madrid