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Application Database Administrator – RDBMS

Hiring Organisation
Vbeyond
Location
Derby, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
administering and maintaining relational database environments, ensuring databases remain secure, highly available, performant and reliable . The role covers database installation and configuration, performance tuning, security and access management, backup and disaster recovery, data integrity, troubleshooting and capacity planning. Key Responsibilities Database Installation & Configuration Install, configure and upgrade … RDBMS platforms. Configure database storage and system resources. Support database environments across the application lifecycle. Performance Tuning & Optimisation Monitor database performance and activity. Analyse and optimise slow SQL queries. Manage and optimise database indexes. Identify and resolve database performance bottlenecks. Allocate system resources to maintain optimal ...

SQL Server DBA

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£500.00 - £550.00 per day
long-term contract basis. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a large-scale enterprise environment supporting business-critical SQL Server platforms, ensuring performance, availability, security and stability across a complex database estate. The Role You will be responsible for the administration, maintenance, optimisation and ongoing support … capabilities and the ability to respond quickly to issues impacting critical business systems. Key Responsibilities Administer and support enterprise SQL Server environments Monitor database performance, health and availability Diagnose and resolve production issues in real time Implement and support High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions Perform SQL Server upgrades ...

SQL Server DBA

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550/day
long-term contract basis. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a large-scale enterprise environment supporting business-critical SQL Server platforms, ensuring performance, availability, security and stability across a complex database estate. The Role You will be responsible for the administration, maintenance, optimisation and ongoing support … capabilities and the ability to respond quickly to issues impacting critical business systems. Key Responsibilities Administer and support enterprise SQL Server environments Monitor database performance, health and availability Diagnose and resolve production issues in real time Implement and support High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions Perform SQL Server upgrades ...

Application Database Administrator

Location
East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
involving large-scale database migration, optimisation, and platform modernisation activities. This is a hands-on role focused on DB2 administration, Oracle-to-DB2 migration, performance tuning, security, and operational support. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of critical database … environments. Refactor and migrate Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures for DB2 compatibility. Develop and execute database migration strategies, plans, and validation activities. Perform performance monitoring, tuning, and optimisation of DB2 environments. Design and manage database backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions. Support database security, compliance, and governance ...

Senior Azure Data Engineer - Managed Services

Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
proactively resolve data pipeline issues across multiple client environments. Design and implement robust CI/CD practices for data workflows and deployments. Lead on performance tuning, data optimisation, and platform reliability improvements. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, deliver updates, and translate complex data issues into clear actions. … Experience Proven experience as a Data Engineer supporting production data pipelines and platforms. Strong knowledge of T-SQL and SQL Server with experience in performance tuning and query optimisation. Experience with scripting languages such as Python for automation. Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Factory ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DBA Specialist

Location
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
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 ...

Oracle Database Engineer - up to £90,000 + Bonus - Hybrid

Hiring Organisation
Involved Solutions
Location
London, South East England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£65,000 - £90,000 per annum
hire an experienced Oracle Database Engineer for their database and platform engineering team. This is a hands-on position covering Oracle administration, automation and performance engineering across large-scale Exadata and cloud environments, including Autonomous Exadata Cloud@Customer. The Oracle Database Engineer role suits an Oracle professional who wants … move beyond routine administration into platform engineering: building automation that removes manual overhead, tuning at scale, and owning multi-tenant database architecture across mission-critical systems. About the role - Oracle Database Engineer (Oracle DBA): Build automation tooling and platform solutions using Ansible and scripting to reduce manual work across ...

Principal Engineer (AWS & Java)

Hiring Organisation
London Stock Exchange Group
Location
Nottingham, United Kingdom
guide effective development approaches by the engineering teams.Lead the implementation of the most complex and business‐critical changes, setting the standard for quality, performance, and maintainability.Provide hands‐on expertise in Java‐based systems, including concurrency, performance tuning, memory management, and API design.Non‐Functional Ownership & System PerformanceTake … capacity management, ensuring the platform performs predictably under variable and peak loads.Provide deep expertise in working with large databases and data stores, including performance optimisation, data access patterns, and operational scaling.Problem Solving & Technical Decision SupportSolve the most complex and ambiguous technical problems, particularly those spanning multiple components or teams.Act ...

Vice President - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - The Core Engineering - Birmingham

Hiring Organisation
Goldman Sachs
Location
Birmingham, United Kingdom
degradation, and rate limiting.Reduce operational toil by building automation, tooling, and self-service capabilities that remove repetitive manual work.Improve production readiness through load testing, performance tuning, capacity forecasting, chaos engineering and reliability reviews.Lead the response to complex, multi-system production incidents. Facilitate blameless post-mortems to identify root … sound knowledge of algorithms, data structures and software design.Knowledge of networking protocols(VPC) , load balancing strategies in a distributed systems environment , database query performance tuning and identify cause for laggingCore Competencies & Soft SkillsAbility to analyze complex, distributed systems holistically and understand how individual components interact under load.Strong interpersonal ...

Vice President - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - The Core Engineering - Birmingham Birmingham · United Kingdom · Vice President

Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
rate limiting. Reduce operational toil by building automation, tooling, and self-service capabilities that remove repetitive manual work. Improve production readiness through load testing, performance tuning, capacity forecasting, chaos engineering and reliability reviews. Lead the response to complex, multi-system production incidents. Facilitate blameless post-mortems to identify … sound knowledge of algorithms, data structures and software design. Knowledge of networking protocols(VPC) , load balancing strategies in a distributed systems environment , database query performance tuning and identify cause for lagging Core Competencies & Soft Skills Ability to analyze complex, distributed systems holistically and understand how individual components interact ...

Vice President - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - The Core Engineering - Birmingham

Location
West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
rate limiting. Reduce operational toil by building automation, tooling, and self-service capabilities that remove repetitive manual work. Improve production readiness through load testing, performance tuning, capacity forecasting, chaos engineering and reliability reviews. Lead the response to complex, multi-system production incidents. Facilitate blameless post-mortems to identify … sound knowledge of algorithms, data structures and software design. Knowledge of networking protocols(VPC) , load balancing strategies in a distributed systems environment , database query performance tuning and identify cause for lagging Core Competencies & Soft Skills Ability to analyze complex, distributed systems holistically and understand how individual components interact ...

Principal Java Developer

Location
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
hybrid role is based in the UK and offers the opportunity to build scalable, real-time services using modern technologies.If you’re passionate about performance, have strong Core Java and SpringBoot expertise, and thrive in a collaborative yet opinionated engineering culture, we want to hear from you .Key Responsibilities … with DevOps, Product, and QA teams to ensure production-grade solutions .Drive architectural changes, advocate for best practices, and provide mentorship to peers .Drive performance tuning, fault tolerance, and observability improvements across services . Required Skills & Experienc e:10+ years of experience in Java development with a focus ...

Senior ServiceNow Developer

Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
models, advanced server- and client-side scripting, and integrations with security tooling and customer environments. It demands expert-level JavaScript, a rigorous approach to performance, maintainability and upgradeability, and the judgement to know when to configure, when to customise, and when to challenge the requirement. Because the platform delivers … authentication, error handling, retry behaviour and monitoring. Platform Health and Upgradeability: Own the technical quality of a heavily customized, multi-customer set of instances: performance tuning, reduction of technical debt, upgrade impact analysis and remediation of skipped or broken customisations. Code Review and Technical Standards: Set and enforce ...

Associate Director - Digital Identity and Biometrics, Solutions Architect, Deloitte Digital

Hiring Organisation
Deloitte
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
market and technology insight. Manage technical risk on large scale identity and biometric projects, evaluating the technical and business impacts caused by bias, matching performance, and resilience to presentation attacks. Own the architecture design of large-scale identity solutions, managing governance forums for compliance, including identifying and documenting dispensations … exposure to a range of modalities e.g. biographic, fingerprint, facial, and iris. Understanding of testing methodologies for biometric and identify verification systems, measuring bias, performance, performance drift and presentation/system resilience. Understanding of the risks related to biometric and identity verification solutions, the role of Presentation Attack ...

Database/Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Salt Search
Location
London, South East England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£230.00 per day
configure database environments across development through to production Automate database provisioning, configuration and deployments Integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines Support performance tuning, query optimisation and complex troubleshooting Engineer for high availability, resilience, security and recovery Support database migrations, upgrades and modernisation initiatives Work closely with … Looking For Strong hands-on Oracle and PostgreSQL experience Experience with at least one of Cassandra, MongoDB or Couchbase Strong database engineering, performance tuning and troubleshooting skills Automation experience using Terraform, Ansible, Python and/or Shell Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and Git Experience ...

Database Reliability Engineer

Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Fleet: Ensure the rock-solid reliability of our existing RDS footprint. You will architect automated strategies for seamless, multi-version upgrades and proactive performance tuning to minimize downtime across hundreds of instances Architect Cross-Cloud Portability: Use CNPG and cloud-native patterns to ensure our database layer remains … Evolve Observability & Monitoring: Build deep, proactive monitoring and alerting for our global database fleet. You will ensure we have the visibility to detect performance regressions and health issues before they impact our customers Support Replication & Mobility: Support data streaming and "Zero-Downtime" migration strategies, ensuring data consistency and availability ...

Managing Engineer – Database, Platform

Location
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Responsibilities Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Database Administrators/Platform Engineers (hiring, performance reviews, career development, coaching). Own the technical roadmap for database platform services (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB on prem, and MongoDB Atlas), driving improvements in scalability, availability, performance, and cost. Lead platform engineering work … support of production environments. Proven experience managing production deployments both on premises and in cloud environments. Strong understanding of database internals, replication, sharding, performance tuning, and backup/restore strategies. Proven experience designing and building database solutions, including schema design, data modelling, indexing strategies, query optimization, and implementing ...

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 ...

Senior SQL Server Developer

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
have extensive demonstrable experience in SQL Server Development utilising T-SQL, a track record of building and working with data warehouses and strong SQL performance tuning expertise. Previous experience working within Financial Services, Wealth Management or Asset Management environments would be highly desirable. The role is Inside IR35 … Skills: Significant hands-on experience as a SQL Server Developer in enterprise environments Strong expertise in T-SQL development Proven experience in SQL performance tuning & trouble shooting (indexes, execution plans, waits, IO, memory) Strong experience building and working with data warehouses/data platforms Experience with data quality ...

Software Engineering Specialist

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
billing services are deployed and operated effectively in AWS and EKS, with strong observability, logging, alerting, and operational controls. · Lead production readiness, resilience planning, performance tuning, and root‐cause analysis for customer and revenue‐impacting incidents. · Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and engineering practices to accelerate … safe and repeatable change. Data & Billing Platform Integrity · Guide Oracle DB usage, data access patterns, and schema considerations to ensure performance, integrity, and traceability across billing solutions. · Work with dependent systems and teams to maintain reliable billing flows, reconciliations, and operational controls across integrated services, including maintaining Oracle ...

Java Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Government and Defence
Location
Bristol, Avon, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£80,000
understand requirements and resolve issues Creating and maintaining low-level technical designs and documentation Supporting CI/CD and software delivery activities Debugging, performance tuning and improving application reliability Participating in Agile ceremonies and sprint activities Contributing to digital transformation and wider engineering projects What we're looking … experience with: Java and associated technologies Spring Boot Unit testing, test automation and TDD DevOps tooling and CI/CD Debugging, profiling and performance tuning Agile software delivery Experience with Docker or other container technologies would also be beneficial. We are looking for someone with strong problem-solving ...

Oracle Database Engineer

Hiring Organisation
FBI &TMT
Location
Christchurch, Dorset, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £55.31 per hour
time on site with one of the industry's leading defence and security companies. Key Responsibilities: Developing, maintaining, and supporting Oracle databases Ensuring high performance, availability, and security of the Oracle databases Designing database solutions that meet the business requirements for both new projects and existing systems Conducting database … performance tuning and optimisation Implementing database backup and recovery strategies Collaborating with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure effective database solutions Providing support for database-related issues and troubleshooting any problems that arise Maintaining comprehensive database documentation and ensuring adherence to security protocols and standards Job Requirements ...