Database Administrator | Barcelona, Madrid or Malaga
Confidential
Posted: January 30, 2026
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Quick Summary
TransPerfect is a global translation and language services company that helps organizations navigate the global marketplace. The company has a strong presence in Spain, with a focus on Madrid and other locations in Europe. The role requires a strong technical background and excellent communication skills.
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Job Description
TransPerfect helps organizations navigate the global marketplace. It remains founder- led – and has striven to maintain the ethos and drive that led them to grow organically year-on-year for the past 30 years. Starting in an NYU dorm room in the early 1990s, TransPerfect is today recognized as the largest translation and language services company in the world with thousands of employees located in 90+ offices worldwide. In 2021, TransPerfect exceeded $1 billion in revenue.
The TransPerfect TechOps team has been a vital part of the company’s success since its formation 10 years ago – delivering technology and services that have drastically simplified the lives of our clients and colleagues – from workflow improvements for colleagues, to core services that form the basis of the company’s GlobalLink platform, to creating scalable client interfaces that allow novice users to navigate complex ecosystems.
As a Database Administrator, you will work directly with senior developers team to design, test, plan, protect and implement our department’s databases.
To find out more about our solutions, please visit: https://globallink.transperfect.com/
Your responsibilities and tasks will include:
• Managing locking, process blocking and performance tuning of our databases
• Creating and maintaining a high availability and disaster-recovery-friendly architecture
• Managing, optimizing, testing and verifying the backup and restoration processes
• Creating and maintaining monitoring and metrics tooling and dashboards, to give both high-level and granular insight into database performance and operation
• Managing our infrastructure in a preventative manner, considering and avoiding potential future issues, mitigating damage from future incidents
• Handling support tickets when necessary, backing up your peers
• Develops and deploys new database objects and changes to existing database objects including tables, stored procedures, views, etc.
• Create complex functions, scripts, stored procedures and triggers to support application development
• Designs, develops and maintains a multitude of complex relational database reports using SSRS