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Senior Database Administrator Leading Financial

Hiring Organisation
Stream Search Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£95,000
ownership of a diverse database estate supporting critical trading and operational systems within a leading financial exchange technology environment. Youll be responsible for database performance, availability, security, upgrades, backups, recovery and migrations , while working closely with developers and infrastructure teams. Key Responsibilities Own and manage the database environment. Ensure … high availability, performance, reliability and security. Performance tuning, monitoring and troubleshooting. Manage upgrades, patching, backups and recovery. Support schema design, SQL optimisation and integrations. Manage database access, permissions and compliance. Act as the escalation point for database issues. Build and optimise SQL queries for Grafana and reporting. ...

Database Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Talent-Relay Limited
Location
South West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£62,614
position . Youll work across Oracle, PostgreSQL and NoSQL platforms , helping build, automate and optimise highly available enterprise database environments. If you enjoy automation, performance tuning, modern DevOps and solving complex database challenges , this role offers the opportunity to work at significant enterprise scale. Key Responsibilities: Engineer … Cassandra, MongoDB and/or Couchbase . Automate database provisioning, configuration and deployments. Implement Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices. Optimise database performance, queries and indexing. Support high availability, replication and resilience. Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root-cause analysis. Partner with developers, architects and infrastructure ...

DBA Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£530 - £555/day
months + Security Clearance: Active SC or DV. Our client is seeking an experienced DBA Specialist , supporting critical database environments and ensuring the performance, availability, and security of key business systems. This is an exciting opportunity for a database professional with strong administration, performance tuning, automation … will be responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and optimisation of critical database systems. You will play a key role in ensuring database performance, resilience, and security while supporting high-availability environments. The successful candidate will be required to work onsite in either Leicester or Hursley five days ...

Lead Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
South West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Design scalable, reusable data processing and data quality frameworks using Python, PySpark, and dbt Build and optimize batch and streaming data pipelines with strong performance, fault tolerance, and observability Develop and operate workflow orchestration (e.g., Apache Airflow) to schedule, monitor, and manage data movement and transformations Model and transform … data for analytics using SQL and dbt to support business intelligence and reporting workloads Write production-grade Python/PySpark code with disciplined testing, performance tuning, and maintainable object-oriented design Implement infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) to provision and manage cloud-based data platform components Containerize ...

Lead Data Engineer

Location
London, United Kingdom
Design scalable, reusable data processing and data quality frameworks using Python, PySpark, and dbt Build and optimize batch and streaming data pipelines with strong performance, fault tolerance, and observability Develop and operate workflow orchestration (e.g., Apache Airflow) to schedule, monitor, and manage data movement and transformations Model and transform … data for analytics using SQL and dbt to support business intelligence and reporting workloads Write production-grade Python/PySpark code with disciplined testing, performance tuning, and maintainable object-oriented design Implement infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) to provision and manage cloud-based data platform components Containerize ...

Lead Data Engineer

Location
Westminster, West End, United Kingdom
Design scalable, reusable data processing and data quality frameworks using Python, PySpark, and dbt Build and optimize batch and streaming data pipelines with strong performance, fault tolerance, and observability Develop and operate workflow orchestration (e.g., Apache Airflow) to schedule, monitor, and manage data movement and transformations Model and transform … data for analytics using SQL and dbt to support business intelligence and reporting workloads Write production-grade Python/PySpark code with disciplined testing, performance tuning, and maintainable object-oriented design Implement infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) to provision and manage cloud-based data platform components Containerize ...

Platform Engineering Specialist - Database Infrastructure

Hiring Organisation
TurleyWay Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
passionate about building and operating highly scalable database platforms? Have you administered and optimised mission-critical PostgreSQL environments in cloud-first organisations, ensuring performance, availability and resilience at scale? Can you demonstrate broad technical knowledge across Platform Engineering, DevOps and Infrastructure, alongside experience with automation and scripting using Python … technology landscape. This is an opportunity to become a technical authority for database infrastructure, helping shape the future of the database platform whilst improving performance, resilience, scalability and operational efficiency. A selection of your key responsibilities will include administering and optimising large-scale PostgreSQL environments, managing connection pooling ...

SQL Developer

Hiring Organisation
Bromcom Computers Plc
Location
Bromley, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Migration (c. 40%) Design, develop and maintain scalable SQL Server T-SQL solutions and related tools for data cleansing, migration and reconciliation. Provide database performance-tuning expertise for internal and third-party systems, using AI tooling where appropriate. Define technical requirements with non-technical colleagues in the Data … person. Essential Skills Practical experience with AI coding assistants and strong prompting skills, supported by examples. Strong SQL Server T-SQL development and performance tuning, including experience supporting SQL Server in a large-scale environment. Experience with Git and version control. Excellent teamwork, communication and documentation skills. Desirable ...

PostgreSQL DBA - AWS, Aurora, RDS - REMOTE

Hiring Organisation
Henderson Scott
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£500 - £525 per day
high-profile public sector project. This role is fully remote and falls inside IR35 . The Role: You will be responsible for managing, tuning, and scaling mission-critical database infrastructure hosted in secure cloud environments. Working closely with engineering and DevOps teams, you will ensure optimal performance, high … availability, and strict adherence to government security standards. Core Responsibilities: Design, configure, and manage PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon RDS instances. Drive database performance tuning, slow query troubleshooting, and proactive monitoring. Execute schema updates, migrations, and engine upgrades safely within cloud ecosystems. Support disaster recovery, backup protocols ...

Principal Database Administrator Fully Remote

Hiring Organisation
Interact Consulting Limited
Location
South West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
market-leading SaaS platform 24x7. This is a true player-coach role: you'll set the long-term database strategy and standards, improve reliability, performance, and security across the estate, and line-manage and develop our existing DBA team. You'll be the senior technical authority for database architecture … strategy, standards, and roadmap for the database function across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Cosmos DB. Get hands-on with a live production estate: performance tuning, configuration, backups, restores, disaster recovery, incident response, and release support. Right-size and optimise Azure SQL deployments across General Purpose, Business Critical ...

DBA Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Government and Defence
Location
Leicester, Leicestershire, East Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
within a secure environment, managing and optimising large-scale, mission-critical database platforms that underpin essential services. You'll be responsible for database administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, security management, high availability, and disaster recovery across enterprise environments. Working alongside technical specialists, you'll help ensure database … availability while driving automation and operational improvements. Key skills and experience: Strong DBA experience across Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB Database performance tuning, optimisation, and troubleshooting expertise Experience with high availability, replication, backup, and disaster recovery solutions Strong SQL knowledge and experience working within Linux ...

Principal SQL Server DBA - Fully remote

Hiring Organisation
Interact Consulting Limited
Location
Guildford, Surrey, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
doing: Lead the strategy, standards and roadmap for 300+ production databases, predominantly SQL Server hosted on Azure. Provide hands-on database administration, performance tuning, monitoring and troubleshooting. Own backup, restore and disaster recovery processes, ensuring reliability and resilience. Optimise database performance, configuration, deployment processes and cost efficiency. … including deployment tiers and migration strategies. Proven ability to define database standards, strategy and long-term technical direction. Experience managing backups, disaster recovery, performance tuning and production releases in a 24/7 environment. ...

SAP Basis Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Guidant Global
Location
Filton, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
functional technical teams, functional consultants and global business stakeholders within an Agile/Scrum framework. Your focus will be on maximum system availability, strong performance and strict adherence to security and compliance standards. What You'll Be Doing System Administration and Landscape Operations Managing full-lifecycle SAP Basis support … stability Implementing technical system changes, and planning Support Packages (SPS), Enhancement Packages (EHP) and system patches in line with Change Advisory Board (CAB) standards Performance Tuning and Infrastructure Carrying out in-depth root cause analysis (RCA) and performance tuning across ABAP, Java and database layers (ST04 ...

SAP Basis Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Guidant Global
Location
Bristol, Avon, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£88,051
functional technical teams, functional consultants and global business stakeholders within an Agile/Scrum framework. Your focus will be on maximum system availability, strong performance and strict adherence to security and compliance standards. What You'll Be Doing System Administration and Landscape Operations Managing full-lifecycle SAP Basis support … stability Implementing technical system changes, and planning Support Packages (SPS), Enhancement Packages (EHP) and system patches in line with Change Advisory Board (CAB) standards Performance Tuning and Infrastructure Carrying out in-depth root cause analysis (RCA) and performance tuning across ABAP, Java and database layers (ST04 ...

SAP Basis Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Belcan
Location
Filton, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£45/hour
closely with cross-functional technical teams, functional consultants, and global business stakeholders within an Agile/Scrum framework to ensure maximum system availability, optimal performance, and strict adherence to security and compliance standards. Key Responsibilities System Administration & Landscape Operations Manage full-lifecycle SAP Basis Support operations, including daily administration … stability. Implement technical system changes, plan Support Packages (SPS) and Enhancement Packages (EHP), and system patches in alignment with Change Advisory Board (CAB) standards. Performance Tuning & Infrastructure Perform in-depth root cause analysis (RCA) and performance tuning across ABAP, Java, and Database layers (ST04, ST03N, ST22 ...

Graph Database Expert/Architect - Neo4j (Azure)

Hiring Organisation
Initialize IT
Location
United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Daily
unstructured sources into entities, relationships, and traversable knowledge graphs. - Establish an operations framework on Azure: ingestion pipelines, schema versioning, monitoring, backup/HA, security, performance tuning, and deployment standards. - Deploy and operate Neo4j on Azure (AuraDB or Azure VM/container-based Neo4j), integrating with Azure AI Search … recommendations. *Must-have skills:* Neo4j, Cypher, graph modelling/ontology, Graph Data Science, vector search, multi-hop querying, Python, Azure data/AI services, performance tuning, and Azure cost optimization. *Nice-to-have:* GraphRAG, LLM orchestration, knowledge-graph extraction, Azure DevOps, enterprise data governance, and FinOps. ...

Graph Database Expert & Architect - Neo4j (Azure)

Hiring Organisation
AxiaMetrics LLP
Location
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 420 Daily
unstructured sources into entities, relationships, and traversable knowledge graphs. - Establish an operations framework on Azure: ingestion pipelines, schema versioning, monitoring, backup/HA, security, performance tuning, and deployment standards. - Deploy and operate Neo4j on Azure (AuraDB or Azure VM/container-based Neo4j), integrating with Azure AI Search … recommendations. *Must-have skills:* Neo4j, Cypher, graph modelling/ontology, Graph Data Science, vector search, multi-hop querying, Python, Azure data/AI services, performance tuning, and Azure cost optimization. *Nice-to-have:* GraphRAG, LLM orchestration, knowledge-graph extraction, Azure DevOps, enterprise data governance, and FinOps. ...

Site Reliability Engineer / Production

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
South West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
level all key system flows, the services, partners, and teams in play, and how to actively debug an incident. Lead reliability engineering: resilience patterns, performance tuning, capacity planning. Facilitate post-incident reviews and track actions to completion. Use AI tools for automated alert correlation, root cause analysis … observability tools, alerting, logging, and distributed systems debugging. Experience managing and working with offshore support teams. Hands-on experience with reliability engineering: resilience patterns, performance tuning, capacity planning. Active use of AI tools for incident triage, automation, and runbook generation. Ability to understand complex system flows across multiple ...

Electronic Trading Network & Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
James Joseph Associates Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
side electronic trading business. Additional headcount has been approved for a Senior Low Latency Network & Systems Engineer to help develop and optimise its high-performance trading infrastructure. This is an opportunity to work on technically demanding infrastructure where network performance, system efficiency and execution speed are critical … trading performance. You will take ownership of engineering and optimising ultra-low-latency infrastructure spanning Linux servers, high-performance networks, physical colocation environments, and AWS cloud infrastructure. The role offers significant technical ownership, with the opportunity to influence infrastructure architecture, introduce new technologies and deliver measurable improvements in trading ...

Electronic Trading Network & Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
James Joseph Associates
Location
EC2N, Broad Street, Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£150000 - £170000/annum Circa 40-80% Bonus + Bens
side electronic trading business. Additional headcount has been approved for a Senior Low Latency Network & Systems Engineer to help develop and optimise its high-performance trading infrastructure. This is an opportunity to work on technically demanding infrastructure where network performance, system efficiency and execution speed are critical … trading performance. You will take ownership of engineering and optimising ultra-low-latency infrastructure spanning Linux servers, high-performance networks, physical colocation environments and AWS cloud infrastructure. The role offers significant technical ownership, with the opportunity to influence infrastructure architecture, introduce new technologies and deliver measurable improvements in trading ...

Oracle Apps DBA R12 (must live in or move to Ireland for the duration)

Hiring Organisation
Apps IT Ltd
Location
United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
EUR 500 - 600 Daily
Responsibilities Install, configure, upgrade, and administer Oracle Database environments. Manage database backups, recovery procedures, patching, and ongoing maintenance activities. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise database performance to ensure maximum availability and reliability. Implement and maintain database security controls, including Oracle Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). Configure, administer, and support Oracle … Enterprise Manager (OEM). Develop and maintain automated monitoring, reporting, and routine administrative processes. Perform database performance analysis, tuning, and troubleshooting using AWR and ADDM reports. Configure and support Oracle DataGuard environments, including disaster recovery planning, switchover, and failover activities. Provide technical administration and support for Oracle ...

Senior SQL DBA

Hiring Organisation
INFUSED SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£65,000
Senior SQL Server DBA - Performance & AWS Location: Birmingham - On-site Salary: £60,000-£65,000 Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent No Sponsorship available must be UK based The Opportunity We're working with an established organisation seeking an experienced Senior SQL Server Database Administrator (DBA) to take ownership … database performance, reliability and optimisation across its AWS environment. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on SQL specialist to become the primary technical owner of database administration and performance, with responsibility for identifying issues, improving scalability and ensuring critical systems operate efficiently. You'll work closely ...

Senior Data Plaform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Aker Systems Limited
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. We build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve … workloads. Use Infrastructure as Code to create repeatable and maintainable environments. Support Docker and Kubernetes-based platform environments. Monitor platform services and investigate failures, performance issues and operational problems. Participate in incident investigation and root cause analysis . Support platform performance, scalability, resilience and availability improvements. Contribute ...

Java Low Latency Engineer

Hiring Organisation
DCV Technologies
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
days from office) Long term contract position Role Overview We are looking for an experienced Java Low Latency Engineer with strong expertise in Java performance optimization, JVM tuning, and high-performance system development. The ideal candidate will have experience building event-driven, concurrent systems designed … latency and high-frequency environments Required Skills & Experience Strong Core Java and JVM performance tuning expertise. Excellent knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms. Experience with concurrency, multithreading, and low-latency system design. Knowledge of GC, JNI, Java Unsafe, and JNR-FFI. Strong understanding of CPU architecture, shared memory ...

Lead Oracle Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Government and Defence
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
secure and complex environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, building, optimising and maintaining scalable data solutions, ensuring the availability, integrity and performance of enterprise data platforms. Key Responsibilities Design, develop and maintain Oracle-based data solutions and data pipelines. Build and optimise ETL/ELT processes … requirements. Develop and maintain Oracle databases, schemes, stored procedures, functions and packages. Ensure data quality, governance, security and compliance across all data assets. Troubleshoot performance issues and implement database tuning and optimisation strategies. Collaborate with architects, developers and business stakeholders to deliver data-driven solutions. Support cloud ...