Senior Database Administrator

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

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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)
• Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code tools, including Ansible or Terraform
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across database and system layers
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling

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.