About Brillio

Founded in 2014 as a digital-native company, Brillio drives major digital transformations. Built on the strengths of Cloud, AI, Mobile, and IoT, we are a trusted partner for leading organizations worldwide, helping them maximize the value of digital technologies. We employ 6,000+ people across 15 locations in six countries: the USA, Canada, Mexico, the UK, Romania, and India. We are consistently certified by Great Place To Work® in the USA, India, UK, and Romania, reflecting our core values and employee-focused culture.

Brillio Romania

Brillio Romania is a fast-moving, rapidly expanding organization with more than 250 colleagues nationwide and offices in Cluj, Oradea, and Bucharest. Through steady, high-paced growth, we have consistently shown a strong commitment to client satisfaction.

At Brillio Romania, we believe our success is driven by the innovative contributions and excellent work of our people. That’s why creating a positive work environment is our top priority. Our colleagues are able to excel and also build long, rewarding careers, supported by stability and dedication—ultimately benefiting both the company and our valued clients.

Accelerate YOU at Brillio!!

This role includes managing mission-critical workloads, ensuring data security and compliance, and delivering scalable solutions for both OLTP and analytical environments.

The Senior DBA will be central to database upgrades, migrations, disaster recovery, automation, performance tuning, and incident/change management, following ITIL best practices and enterprise governance standards.

The position requires strong practical experience with hybrid infrastructure, including on-premises SQL Server environments and cloud-native services, with an emphasis on reliability, automation, and cost optimization.

You will work closely with application teams, cloud engineers, data engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders to support database operations across development, non-production, and production environments.

Key Responsibilities
• Administer and support SQL Server databases on premises and in Azure IaaS (VM) environments, including installation, configuration, patching, and upgrades (2017–2022).
• Manage Azure SQL PaaS services such as Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance, ensuring high availability, security, and performance.
• Design, implement, and maintain high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solutions, including Always On Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, Log Shipping, and Azure SQL Failover Groups.
• Perform database upgrades and migrations, including SQL Server version upgrades and Azure SQL (IaaS & PaaS) migrations, as well as cross-platform data migrations when needed.
• Monitor database performance and proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks (CPU, memory, I/O).
• Apply and enforce security best practices, including role-based access control and encryption (TDE).
• Run and verify backup, restore, point-in-time recovery, and disaster recovery drills across platforms.
• Monitor and optimize performance using execution plans, indexing strategies, statistics management, and platform metrics.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, and infrastructure teams on database design and system integration.
• Automate routine DBA tasks using scripts (PowerShell, T-SQL, Python, etc.).
• Support cloud database platforms such as Azure SQL, AWS RDS, Snowflake, and others.
• Participate in incident, problem, change, and release management, ensuring SLA compliance and proper documentation.
• Maintain accurate database documentation, runbooks, and operational standards.
• Administer Snowflake data warehouse environments, including user management, performance optimization, data loading, and cost monitoring.
• Support Azure Cosmos DB, including account setup, throughput management, monitoring, and availability.

Job Requirements
• The ideal candidate has deep expertise in database architecture, performance tuning, and high availability for distributed systems.
• 7–10+ years of experience as a Database Administrator.
• Strong experience with SQL Server (2017–2022+) and Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
• Advanced performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization skills.
• Experience with HA/DR solutions (Always On, clustering, log shipping, replication).
• Knowledge of backup/recovery strategies and disaster recovery planning.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Strong understanding of database security and encryption methods.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation.
• Working knowledge of Snowflake architecture, administration, and cost management.
• Experience managing or supporting Azure Cosmos DB (Core SQL API preferred).
• Experience working in ITIL-aligned environments for incident, change, and problem management.
• Experience with DevOps/CI-CD practices for database deployments is a plus.

Perks and Benefits
• We respect your time and lifestyle—choose to work fully remotely or from our offices in Cluj-Napoca, Oradea, and Bucharest.
• Learning opportunities through our internal platform, Percipio.
• Private health insurance through Medicover.
• A fixed monthly work-from-home allowance.
• A monthly budget to purchase flexible benefits via the Edenred Benefit platform.
• Sports benefit: We encourage an active lifestyle and will reimburse you (within budget) for your preferred sport—football, climbing, the gym, or other activities.

Take the next step with Brillio. Accelerate What Matters. Be a Catalyst for Tomorrow. Be a Brillian!