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Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from our office in Bucharest.\nOur 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.\nWe enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.\nFor 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?\nThe Mission\nBank 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.\nBMG 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.\nBMG 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.\nYour day to day\nAs 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.\n\nDatabase Engineering & Lifecycle Management\nOwn SQL Server environments end to end, covering installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, monitoring, troubleshooting and lifecycle management.\nEnsure database reliability and performance through proactive monitoring, capacity management, query optimisation and performance tuning.\nManage database changes safely, ensuring schema, configuration and release changes are controlled, traceable and repeatable.\nProvide database expertise to engineering teams, supporting SQL design, performance, deployments and resolution of complex production issues.\nProduction Ownership (\"You Build It, You Run It\")\nTake ownership of services throughout their entire lifecycle, from development to production operations.\nMonitor server health, investigate incidents, troubleshoot production issues, and lead root cause analysis activities.\nImprove observability, alerting, reliability, and operational resilience of your services.\nParticipate in on-call and production support rotations where required.\nContinuously reduce operational overhead through automation and self-healing capabilities.\nAutomation, AI & Engineering Productivity\nAutomate database operations and deployments using scripting, standardization and Azure DevOps Pipelines to reduce manual effort and operational risk.\nEmbed database changes into CI/CD, enabling controlled, repeatable and auditable deployments alongside application releases.\nApply AI-assisted engineering responsibly to accelerate troubleshooting, scripting, query analysis and documentation while respecting security and data-handling requirements.\nImprove developer and DBA productivity through reusable automation, tooling, monitoring and observability.\nRisk, Governance & Resilience\nKeep database environments secure and compliant through appropriate access controls, patching, encryption and secure configuration.\nEnsure resilience and recoverability through effective backup, restore, recovery and capacity-management practices.\nMaintain auditable database operations, providing documentation and evidence for IT controls, audits and risk assessments.\nProactively address technology risks, including vulnerabilities, lifecycle risks, technical debt and resilience gaps.\nCollaboration & Engineering Enablement\nPartner with engineering, infrastructure, architecture and security teams to deliver scalable, reliable and maintainable database solutions.\nEnable development teams with DBA expertise, standards and practical guidance on SQL, performance, deployments and operational readiness.\nProvide database expertise during incidents and complex changes, driving root-cause analysis and sustainable solutions.\nShare knowledge and reusable practices, reducing key-person dependencies and strengthening collective ownership.\nContinuous Improvement & Knowledge\nContinuously improve database operations, simplifying processes and engineering out repetitive work and recurring issues.\nTurn incidents and operational insights into lasting improvements across automation, monitoring, standards and resilience.\nMaintain clear and practical technical documentation for operations, recovery, deployment and troubleshooting.\nStay current with SQL Server, automation, DevOps and AI-assisted engineering, adopting capabilities that improve reliability, security and productivity.\nWhat success looks like\nSuccess means that BMG's database platforms are secure, resilient and easy to operate, while enabling engineering teams to deliver safely and efficiently.\nYou will be successful when:\nDatabase services are reliable and resilient, delivering predictable performance, strong availability, effective monitoring and proven recovery capabilities.\nAutomation and AI improve engineering productivity, reducing repetitive work, accelerating troubleshooting and enabling standardized, repeatable database operations and deployments.\nChanges are delivered safely and efficiently, with CI/CD, appropriate controls and effective rollback and recovery practices enabling faster delivery without compromising stability.\nRisk and technical health are proactively managed, with security vulnerabilities, lifecycle risks, technical debt and control gaps identified early and sustainably addressed.\nYou are recognized as an engineering partner, not only as an operational DBA, helping teams make better decisions around data, performance, reliability, security and maintainability.\nYou take ownership beyond engineering, understanding both the technology and the treasury business processes that BMG supports.\nWhat you’ll bring to the team\nExperience:\n8+ years of experience as a SQL database admin\nTech stack/ knowledge:\nMandatory:Strong experience with database administration in Microsoft SQL Server and ability to fine tune database models and data intensive operations\nStrong experience with implementing high-availability DB environments (like MS SQL Server Always-On)\nSolid 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\nStrong knowledge of scripting and automation using PowerShell\nGood 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\nExperience with scheduling tools and related concepts\nExperience with exposing meaningful metrics to have proper monitoring and alerting using tools like Grafana, Prometheus\nAbility to perform database profiling to better understand and fine tune the 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