Senior Database Administrator
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Senior Database Administrator (DBA)
We're recruiting on behalf of a leading technology-driven organisation to find a Senior DBA to support the delivery, maintenance and optimisation of secure, scalable, and high-performing database environments. This is a hands-on role focused on ensuring database reliability, automation, resilience, and operational excellence across business-critical platforms
.Working closely with DBA, DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE and Development teams, you will design, implement and support robust database solutions while driving performance improvements and automation initiatives
.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain production and non-production database environments
- Monitor and optimise performance, replication, backups and high-availability solution
- Troubleshoot complex database, infrastructure and capacity issues
- Implement upgrades, patching and security best practices
- Develop automation for provisioning, deployment and ongoing maintenance
- Support Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using tools such as Ansible and Terraform
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve observability, resilience and operational efficiency
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members
- Participate in incident management, root cause analysis and continuous improvement activities
- Contribute to database architecture decisions and the evaluation of new technologies
Essential Skills & Experiences
- Strong experience with Oracle and other open source databases such as MySQL or similar relational database platforms
- Expertise in database architecture, replication, partitioning and performance tuning
- Linux administration and scripting experience (Bash, Shell or Python)
Desirables
- Experience with cloud-managed database services
- Knowledge of schema migration tools
- Understanding of disaster recovery, retention and data protection strategies
- Experience with monitoring platforms such as Prometheus and Grafana
Package & Benefits
- Salary: To £75,000 + Benefits DOE
Discretionary bonus schemes and incentives
This is a great opportunity for a career DBA to broaden their skillset - especially around opensource databases.