TL;DR

Senior Database Administrator: Working with relational database technologies including Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. Focus on driving performance, resilience, and reliability across business-critical platforms.

Location: London - hybrid

Salary: Up to £62,500 plus London Weighting

Company

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What you will do

Work with teams across the %hirify_global% and with system vendors and suppliers on the implementation of secure and highly available database solutions
Write, review and take responsibility for technical documentation as part of project and product delivery
Install, configure and provide operational support for relational databases
Monitor and tune database performance
Respond to incidents during office hours and as part of out of hours support, leading on resolution and root cause analysis

Requirements

Expertise in at least 3 of the following major RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
Strong SQL, T-SQL/PL-SQL, scripting (Python, PowerShell).
Knowledge of monitoring and performance tuning solutions for relational databases
Familiarity with replication, clustering, and HA/DR configurations for different database technologies.
Experience with backup and recovery strategies and their implementation
Experience with security best practices and compliance, and their implementation

Nice to have

Experience with databases on cloud platforms
Experience with containerisation technologies.
Experience with NoSQL databases
Experience with automation and Machine Learning

Culture & Benefits

Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
Excellent career and professional development.
Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.