Senior Database Administrator

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

The hirify.global is committed to inform, educate and entertain.

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.