MS SQL Server Database Admin | BMG @ING Hubs Romania

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ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 2000 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals.

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub, then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies. Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from our office in Bucharest.

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1800 colleagues active in Data Management, Touchpoint Channels & Integration, Core Banking, and Global Products.

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work. We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?

The Mission

Bank Mendes Gans (BMG) is a specialized wholesale bank and a wholly owned subsidiary of ING Group, focused on delivering advanced cash management, liquidity management, and transaction banking solutions to multinational corporations around the world. Combining deep financial expertise with innovative technology, BMG helps global organizations optimize working capital, centralize treasury operations, and manage complex international cash flows efficiently and securely.

BMG serves large multinational companies, international corporate groups, and globally operating enterprises that require sophisticated treasury and liquidity management capabilities. Its customers span a wide range of industries and rely on BMG to provide scalable financial infrastructure that supports their global growth, operational efficiency, and financial resilience.

BMG offers a comprehensive portfolio of treasury and transaction banking services, including cash pooling, in-house banking, intercompany netting, domestic and international payments, virtual account structures, liquidity optimization, financial messaging, and cash visibility solutions. These services enable clients to centralize financial operations, streamline cross-border transactions, reduce operational complexity, optimize liquidity across multiple entities and markets, and gain real-time insight into their global cash positions. Through close integration with ING’s global banking network and technology platforms, BMG delivers reliable, scalable, and innovative solutions that support the treasury needs of some of the world's largest and most internationally active organizations.

Your day to day

As a SQL Server Database Admin, you will be responsible for ensuring that BMG's database platforms are secure, reliable, performant, resilient and efficiently operated throughout their lifecycle. You will combine hands-on database expertise with automation, engineering practices and close collaboration with development and infrastructure teams to keep our critical data services stable today while continuously improving how we operate them.

Database Engineering & Lifecycle Management

• Own SQL Server environments end to end, covering installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, monitoring, troubleshooting and lifecycle management.
• Ensure database reliability and performance through proactive monitoring, capacity management, query optimisation and performance tuning.
• Manage database changes safely, ensuring schema, configuration and release changes are controlled, traceable and repeatable.
• Provide database expertise to engineering teams, supporting SQL design, performance, deployments and resolution of complex production issues.

Production Ownership ("You Build It, You Run It")

• Take ownership of services throughout their entire lifecycle, from development to production operations.
• Monitor server health, investigate incidents, troubleshoot production issues, and lead root cause analysis activities.
• Improve observability, alerting, reliability, and operational resilience of your services.
• Participate in on-call and production support rotations where required.
• Continuously reduce operational overhead through automation and self-healing capabilities.

Automation, AI & Engineering Productivity

• Automate database operations and deployments using scripting, standardization and Azure DevOps Pipelines to reduce manual effort and operational risk.
• Embed database changes into CI/CD, enabling controlled, repeatable and auditable deployments alongside application releases.
• Apply AI-assisted engineering responsibly to accelerate troubleshooting, scripting, query analysis and documentation while respecting security and data-handling requirements.
• Improve developer and DBA productivity through reusable automation, tooling, monitoring and observability.

Risk, Governance & Resilience

• Keep database environments secure and compliant through appropriate access controls, patching, encryption and secure configuration.
• Ensure resilience and recoverability through effective backup, restore, recovery and capacity-management practices.
• Maintain auditable database operations, providing documentation and evidence for IT controls, audits and risk assessments.
• Proactively address technology risks, including vulnerabilities, lifecycle risks, technical debt and resilience gaps.

Collaboration & Engineering Enablement

• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, architecture and security teams to deliver scalable, reliable and maintainable database solutions.
• Enable development teams with DBA expertise, standards and practical guidance on SQL, performance, deployments and operational readiness.
• Provide database expertise during incidents and complex changes, driving root-cause analysis and sustainable solutions.
• Share knowledge and reusable practices, reducing key-person dependencies and strengthening collective ownership.

Continuous Improvement & Knowledge

• Continuously improve database operations, simplifying processes and engineering out repetitive work and recurring issues.
• Turn incidents and operational insights into lasting improvements across automation, monitoring, standards and resilience.
• Maintain clear and practical technical documentation for operations, recovery, deployment and troubleshooting.
• Stay current with SQL Server, automation, DevOps and AI-assisted engineering, adopting capabilities that improve reliability, security and productivity.

What success looks like

Success means that BMG's database platforms are secure, resilient and easy to operate, while enabling engineering teams to deliver safely and efficiently.

You will be successful when:

• Database services are reliable and resilient, delivering predictable performance, strong availability, effective monitoring and proven recovery capabilities.
• Automation and AI improve engineering productivity, reducing repetitive work, accelerating troubleshooting and enabling standardized, repeatable database operations and deployments.
• Changes are delivered safely and efficiently, with CI/CD, appropriate controls and effective rollback and recovery practices enabling faster delivery without compromising stability.
• Risk and technical health are proactively managed, with security vulnerabilities, lifecycle risks, technical debt and control gaps identified early and sustainably addressed.

• You are recognized as an engineering partner, not only as an operational DBA, helping teams make better decisions around data, performance, reliability, security and maintainability.

• You take ownership beyond engineering, understanding both the technology and the treasury business processes that BMG supports.

What you’ll bring to the team

Experience:

• 8+ years of experience as a SQL database admin

Tech stack/ knowledge:

• Mandatory:
  • Strong experience with database administration in Microsoft SQL Server and ability to fine tune database models and data intensive operations
  • Strong experience with implementing high-availability DB environments (like MS SQL Server Always-On)
  • Solid hands-on proficiency in T-SQL, including the ability to independently write, analyze, and optimize queries and stored procedures, interpret execution plans, and troubleshoot query performance issues
  • Strong knowledge of scripting and automation using PowerShell
  • Good knowledge of source control, CI/CD and documentation tools (Azure DevOps, Git, Confluence) and ability to define CI/CD pipelines and manage DevOps related activities during software development lifecycle
  • Experience with scheduling tools and related concepts
  • Experience with exposing meaningful metrics to have proper monitoring and alerting using tools like Grafana, Prometheus
  • Ability to perform database profiling to better understand and fine tune the DB engine
  • Strong analytical skills, proactivity, and ability to work in a cross-border international team
  • Ability to think critically, take initiative and act as a problem solver
  • Proven experience in a DevOps team (owning, implementing, and managing applications in scope
  • Excellent Stakeholder Management skills
  • Strong interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills
• Nice to have:
  • Familiarity with Elastic stack and how to query logs
  • Experience or affinity with IT Security concepts

Foreign languages:

• English (advanced)

Education:

• Completed Education at Bachelor/Master level with a strong analytical background, in Computer Science, Cybernetics, Software Engineering, Financial Engineering or equivalent

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