Database Administrator

We are on the hunt for a curious and tenacious individual to join the Orion Health Madrid team as a Database Administrator!

As a Database Administrator, you will apply database administration best practices, sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and automation expertise to keep databases supporting mission-critical, clinician and citizen-facing solutions running smoothly all day, every day.

If you thrive in an engaging, busy environment, this role offers a wealth of variety and professional development where your ability to handle intricate details and smooth execution will go a long way.

• Managing and optimising client databases, ensuring availability, reliability, stability, and performance across multiple customer solutions.
• Analysing solutions and implementing industry best practices for managed customer database instances.
• Designing and implementing proactive monitoring and observability of key database metrics.
• Monitoring the gummies and performance of database systems and responding promptly to alerts and incidents.
• Collaborating with peer SREs to roll out application upgrades and changes in production environments.
• Diagnosing, mitigating, and resolving database-related incidents during business and on-call hours.
• Participating in post-incident analysis, identifying root causes, and implementing preventative measures.
• Designing and delivering optimisations, automation, and continuous improvements to database infrastructure.
• Contributing to capacity planning and scalability initiatives to ensure database resources meet demand while optimising for cost.
• Documenting changes and learnings to create repeatable, proactive processes.
• Staying current with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously enhance database reliability.
• Designing, testing conosco, and implementing database archiving, backup, and disaster recovery policies and processes.

• Strong Microsoft SQL Server skills including architecture, administration and performance tuning
• Good understanding of data management principles. Proven experience with SQL HA and DR technologies
• Exceptional troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving skills. Competent in writing and refactoring SQL queries
• Intermediate or higher level cloud skills - AWS preferred
• A proactive, continuous improvement mindset. When you see something broken, you can’t help but fix it.

• Intermediate or higher scripting and automation skills
• Knowledge of other RDBMS (Oracle, Postgres, etc.) is desirable

• To be successful in this role, you will have5+ years of experience in RDBMS database administration or database administration, in large mission-critical production environments.

Orion Health's vision is to reimagine the healthcare cámaras for all. We strive to empower people, reveal insights from data, and unify healthcare data silos seamlessly and securely across the health ecosystem, improving the efficiency of care and advancing the wellbeing of everyone around the world.

For over 30 years, Orion Health has been focused on innovation and changing the game in health data. Today, we operate in 12 countries and our software hosts patient records for well over 100 million people. Orion Health is a world leader in unifying data across complex healthcare settings. The future is exciting for healthcare with AI and patient engagement at the forefront of our minds for our next growth phase.

Our reach is far and continuously growing. Come grow with us.