Database Engineer – Deployment and Support

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• Location: Barcelona, Spain • Grade: 2.2 • Hiring Manager: Michael Simpson About the Job As Database Engineer – Deployment and Support within our Digital Technology Service Quality team, you'll build, deploy, and support the enterprise database estate that holds Sanofi's most critical data. From automated provisioning and high-availability design through to performance optimization and incident response, you'll ensure our data platforms remain secure, resilient, and performant — powering business-critical applications across manufacturing, research, and enterprise systems worldwide. Ready to get started? You'll work across Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and manage cloud database services, deploying infrastructure as code and promoting schema changes through pipelines rather than by hand. You'll own what you deploy — from day one through day-two operations — ensuring proven recoverability, availability, and compliance. This role sits at the heart of Sanofi's digital transformation, where the persistence layer you build directly enables thousands of users to chase the miracles of science.   About Sanofi Sanofi is dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges. We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health, committed to chasing the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions At Sanofi, we believe our people are our greatest strength, and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives drive innovation. Our values — Aim Higher, Act for Patients, Be Bold, and Lead Together — guide everything we do   Main responsibilities • Deploy databases as code using Terraform, Ansible, and migration tooling (Liquibase, Flyway, DACPAC), with CI/CD pipelines that validate, test, and promote changes from Dev to Production • Design and operate high availability and disaster recovery — Always On availability groups, Oracle Data Guard, PostgreSQL replication, and cloud-native failover — with regular testing to prove recovery commitments • Provide L2/L3 operational support and participate in on-call rotation, diagnosing and resolving incidents including replication failures, performance degradation, backup issues, and corruption scenarios • Optimize performance and capacity using execution plans, wait statistics, and platform-native tools (Query Store, AWR, pg_stat_statements), partnering with application teams on indexing and query tuning • Execute patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management , meeting compliance SLAs and driving end-of-life remediation across the estate • Implement database security and compliance — encryption, auditing, privileged access control, and data masking — maintaining validation documentation for GxP-regulated systems • Automate repetitive tasks with PowerShell, Python, and platform APIs, building reusable, production-grade automation that eliminates manual toil • Onboard databases into monitoring and observability platforms (Datadog, Splunk), defining meaningful alerts and dashboards that drive proactive operations   About You • Experience : Proven track record deploying and supporting enterprise databases (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MySQL) in large-scale, global environments; regulated industry experience is a plus • Technical skills : Hands-on expertise in database deployment, high availability (Always On, RAC, replication), backup/recovery, performance tuning, and

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