{"id":3800728,"url":"https://alion.io/job/g2-recruitment-solutions-sql-database-administrator-expert","title":"SQL Database Administrator / Expert","company":{"id":4413561,"name":"g2 Recruitment Solutions","domain":"g2recruitment.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/g2-recruitment-solutions","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":true,"employer_type":"agency","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"freelance","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Brussels, Belgium"],"countries":["BE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon Aurora","optional":true},{"name":"Azure Cosmos DB","optional":true},{"name":"DynamoDB","optional":true},{"name":"MS SQL","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-05T11:23:16Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-11-05T11:23:16Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"SQL Database Administrator / SQL expert (freelance)\n\nLocation: Brussels, Belgium (2 days onsite per week)\n\nStart Date: January 2027\n\nContract Type: Freelance\n\nIndustry: Financial Services\n\nLanguage Requirement: Fluent French (Mandatory)\n\nOverview\n\nWe are seeking an experienced SQL Database Administrator / SQL Expert to support a critical database environment within a leading financial services organisation. This role will focus on ensuring the stability, availability, security, and performance of SQL Server platforms while driving operational excellence and resilience across the organisation's technology landscape.\n\nThe ideal candidate will have strong hands-on SQL Server administration experience and a proven background supporting business-critical systems in enterprise environments. Experience within financial services, insurance, banking, or other highly regulated sectors is highly desirable.\n\nKey responsibilities\n\nAdminister, maintain, and optimise Microsoft SQL Server environments\n\nEnsure the availability, reliability, and performance of production database systems\n\nPerform database monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident resolution\n\nManage backups, restores, patching, upgrades, and disaster recovery processes\n\nSupport operational resilience initiatives and ensure business continuity requirements are met\n\nIdentify and implement performance improvements across database platforms\n\nMaintain database security, access controls, and compliance standards\n\nConduct root cause analysis for database-related incidents and implement preventative measures\n\nCollaborate with infrastructure, application, and support teams to deliver operational excellence\n\nContribute to automation and continuous improvement initiatives within the database estate\n\nRequired skills & experience\n\nStrong experience as a SQL Database Administrator, SQL Engineer, or SQL Expert\n\nExtensive hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration\n\nProven experience supporting complex production environments\n\nStrong knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and recovery solutions\n\nExperience with database performance tuning and optimisation\n\nExcellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills\n\nFluent French language skills are essential\n\nAbility to work onsite in Brussels two days per week\n\nDesirable experience\n\nExperience within financial services, insurance, banking, or other regulated industries\n\nKnowledge of operational resilience frameworks and best practices\n\nExperience with monitoring and automation tools\n\nExposure to enterprise-scale database environments\n\n Company description\n g2 is a leading technical recruitment agency within IT, Engineering and Oil and Gas sectors. We place contract and permanent staff in every corner of the world and our rapid growth has enabled expansion in London, Bristol, Manchester, Houston and Amsterdam. Our online job search means candidates can see their options instantly, and it's just as easy for clients to recruit using g2, filling vacancies for contract roles and permanent positions via the website.\n\ng2 recruitment has been officially recognised as one of the fastest growing businesses in the UK today. This growth is founded on exceptional levels of service to our 'customers', be they candidate or client. Determined to work harder, faster, and better than our competition, our statistics speak volumes. Contact one of our dedicated consultants today.\n\nEmploying the very best people means we ensure the highest service level to our clients and candidates. Our team is supported by the latest technologies and search tools which allow us to know our industries inside out. Our staff are highly trained and dedicated, meaning they go the extra mile to ensure your hire is the perfect match.\n\nBy appointing our consultants into vertical markets within your industry, you can be confident that you will only ever be dealing with a technical expert - someone who understands specialist terminology specific to your job requirements or desired job role.\n\n Show full description\n\n g2 Recruitment Solutions - SQL Database Administrator / Expert\n g2 Recruitment Solutions\n\n Apply \n\n Similar offers\n\n Satellit - Senior Database Administrator\n Brussels - Security, backup, restore\n\n Vivid Resourcing - Freelance SQL DBA (Infrastructure)\n Brussels - Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, CosmosDB\n\n Oliver James Associates - Data Functional Analyst\n Brussels - Adabas, Mapping Rulebooks\n\n Innova - Dot NET Architect\n Brussels - Roadmaps, MicroServices, Mentor\n\n Similar job postings based on the criteria : \n Database Administrator SQL Microsoft SQL Server \n\n ictjob.be\n\n Who are we?\n\n Sitemap\n\n Terms of Use\n\n Privacy Statement\n\n Partners\n\n Contact us\n\n Candidates\n\n Browse jobs\n\n Create your CV\n\n Create Job Alert\n\n Search jobs by company\n\n Find an IT training\n\n Recruiters\n\n Post a job\n\n CV search\n\n Create an IT internship posting\n\n Ask for a custom quote\n\n ictjob.be\n\n ictjob.lu\n\n Contact\n\n Legal notices","description_format":"text","description_chars":4967,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Belgium","iso":"BE","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-05T11:23:16Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":60,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.596,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":34,"reasons":["seen:2","agency","urgency","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/g2-recruitment-solutions-sql-database-administrator-expert","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/g2-recruitment-solutions-sql-database-administrator-expert.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-08T07:30:05Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":16336,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-09T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4413561},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4413561"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fg2-recruitment-solutions-sql-database-administrator-expert"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fg2-recruitment-solutions-sql-database-administrator-expert"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fg2-recruitment-solutions-sql-database-administrator-expert"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/g2-recruitment-solutions-sql-database-administrator-expert\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fg2-recruitment-solutions-sql-database-administrator-expert"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3800728}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"g2recruitment.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3800728},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}