Database Administrator
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Are you ready and looking for a role that you can make your own, taking the autonomy to set out what and how you do it?
As we have grown, we have accumulated a diverse database infrastructure, including PostgreSQL, Maria DB, InfluxDB and MongoDB systems.
The timing is ripe for an experienced Administrator to take ownership, mature, upgrade and manage our database servers, while supporting development teams and business operations.
Key Accountability & Responsibilities
- Work with teams across the Technology department to install, configure, maintain, and upgrade our database servers across development, testing, and production environments.
- Monitor database health and perform routine maintenance tasks including index optimisation, table maintenance, and schema modifications.
- Work with Development and Data engineering teams to optimise performance & cost of data pipelines
- Manage database capacity planning and storage allocation to ensure adequate resources for current and future needs.
- Proactive management of databases, ensuring application and operational performance needs are met.
- Implement and maintain high availability solutions including replication, clustering, and failover configurations.
- Document database architectures, configurations, procedures and policies.
- Implement appropriate security controls to ensure databases and data are protected.
- Ensure database backup, validation and disaster recovery capabilities are in place and rehearsed.
- Provide insight and recommendation on the adoption and consolidation of database related technologies.
- Be part of the on 24x7 on call rota to provide out of hours support for our critical systems.
Knowledge & Skills
- Proven expertise managing PostgreSQL and MariaDB/MySQL databases
- Experience with NoSQL databases.
Gigaclear is a growing Fibre Broadband (FTTP / FTTH) company, developing our fibre-to-the-premises broadband infrastructure to some of the most difficult to reach areas of the UK, empowering those communities with broadband to rival any city.