Database Administrator

· Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

· Flexible hybrid working to help balance work and home life

· Private healthcare insurance at discounted rates (Aviva)

· Employee Assistance Programme and in-house mental health support

· Access to discounted gym memberships via Blue Light Card and benefits schemes

· Regular health and wellbeing initiatives

· Strong commitment to CPD, training and professional development

· 25 days’ annual leave, increasing with service

· Buy and sell holiday scheme

· Regular social events throughout the year

· Ensuring database platforms remain highly available, resilient and performant.

· Maintaining the security of data sources, ensuring access is appropriately controlled, reviewed and audited.

· Collaborating with BI developers, application specialists and middleware teams to enable accurate, reliable data integration and reporting.

· Working with third-party suppliers on installations, upgrades, maintenance, testing and troubleshooting activities, ensuring services meet business and technical requirements.

· Providing specialist database expertise in response to support escalations from DevOps teams and technical colleagues.

· Building strong stakeholder relationships across the business to understand objectives, data requirements and the value delivered through data platforms.

· Executing data management activities in a controlled, compliant and reliable manner.

· Configure, maintain and optimise proactive monitoring solutions using tools such as Redgate and New Relic.

· Manage and maintain software development lifecycle (SDLC) environments, ensuring they remain fit for purpose and operationally effective.

· Demonstrable experience administering and supporting database technologies, including SQL Server 2019 and Azure SQL.

· Proven experience in a Database Administrator or similar data platform role.

· Strong operational expertise in troubleshooting, incident resolution and root cause analysis.

· Experience of database performance tuning, optimisation and capacity management.

· Strong proficiency in Microsoft T-SQL, including query development and optimisation.

· Excellent communication, stakeholder management and attention-to-detail skills.

· Experience using native and third-party monitoring and performance management tools, such as Redgate SQL Monitor and New Relic.

· Experience administering and supporting Azure Cosmos DB or other cloud-based database technologies.

Please click apply and if we think you are a good match, we will be in touch to arrange an interview.

Applicants must prove they have the right to live in the UK.

All successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check.

Unsolicited agency applications will be treated as a gift.

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