Linux Database Administrator H/F – Casablanca
Casablanca,
CDI
03/11/2025
Description
With over 200 employees, the ilem Group is a leading IT services company (SSII) in French-speaking Switzerland.
ilem specializes in the management, implementation, and optimization of enterprise information systems, delivering high-quality services, providing technological expertise, and designing and developing innovative solutions implemented in Switzerland, France, and Morocco.
Founded on strong human values — Respect, Simplicity, Trust, Quality of Service, and Open-mindedness — ilem’s strategy is based on building long-term partnerships with both its clients and employees.
Missions
Context:
Within a large international organization, the Hybrid Cloud Product team is responsible for building and maintaining secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure services supporting global operations. The Linux Database Administrator plays a key role in ensuring the reliability and performance of enterprise database platforms across on-premises and cloud environments.
Main tasks:
Acts as an Engineer to implement high performance scalable databases that can fulfil business / solution needs, based on recommendations from Product Owner.
Driven end-to-end availability, performance monitoring, and capacity planning for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB using native and 3rd party tools.
Drive migration of many of those on open-source engines to containerization (either to OpenShift or Azure Kubernetes Services).
Ensures Monitoring, Logging and Alerting is set up and integrated with monitoring tools accordingly to the standard and business requirements.
Acts as an expert to Identify query-language optimizations to deliver the best possible performance. Work with the Hybrid Cloud colleagues working on Core Infrastructure.
Act as a coach to support some of the colleagues in their technical knowledge.
Practices sustainable response and support in the incident and request management.
Profil
University degree in technical field along with minimum 5 years’ experience in administering mainly on-premises based multiuser environment with expertise in planning, designing, building, and implementing complex database systems.
5+ years’ experience in running production MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
Extensive experience with monitoring / logging / alerting systems.
Strong experience in Linux Administration (containerization would be highly valuable).
Strong team player able to share knowledge and to be autonomous when needed.
Assets
Experience in database containerization (best practices, methodologies, migration…).
Experience in working with cloud providers (Azure) on RDBMS and NoSQL deployment.
Experience in infrastructure automation / provisioning tools (Ansible playbook/ PowerShell).
Experience using Microsoft TFS, particularly the management of PBI.
Experience with Elastic Search and/or Splunk would be a plus.
Languages: Advanced proficiency in French and English
Location: Casanearshore - Casablanca
Start Date: Asap
