# Applicant Portal:## Job Details: Senior Database Administrator| | Senior Database Administrator || | || | Edinburgh |At **The Craneware Group**, we build technology that helps healthcare organisations across the US make smarter, more sustainable decisions. Our platforms rely on **highly available, high‐performance data systems**, and we’re looking for an experienced **Senior Database Administrator** to help ensure our databases remain secure, resilient, and future‐ready. **Hybrid working:** This UK-based role follows a hybrid model, with around **40% of time per month** spent in our **Edinburgh office**.You’ll join our **Shared Data Services team**, acting as a technical leader responsible for the performance, availability, security, and evolution of our database platforms across **on‐prem and cloud environments**.This is a **hands-on senior technical role**, with real influence over database architecture, performance, and cloud migration strategy.You’ll support **business‐critical production and development databases**, take ownership of complex issues, and play a key role in shaping our move towards cloud-based database platforms. While not a line management role, you’ll act as a **technical mentor and advisor** to DBAs, developers, and wider engineering teams.---### What you’ll be responsible for* Acting as a **technical leader** within the Database Administration team* Supporting and optimising **production and development databases** across on‐prem, private, and public cloud environments* Ensuring **availability, performance, security, and recoverability** of all database platforms* Leading investigations into **complex production database issues*** Designing and contributing to **cloud migration strategies and future‐state database architecture*** Advising senior IT leadership on **database platform architecture, capacity planning, and budgets*** Overseeing **database upgrades, patching, tuning, and performance monitoring*** Mentoring DBAs and developers on **best practices, efficient coding, and performance optimisation*** Contributing to automation through **scripting, monitoring, and alerting*** Participating in an **on-call rotation**, taking ownership of incidents impacting customer-facing systems#### Technical experience* **Expert-level Oracle DBA experience*** Strong expertise in **database tuning and performance monitoring*** Experience working with **Very Large Databases (VLDBs)*** Hands-on experience with: + Oracle Exadata + Oracle Cloud + Oracle GoldenGate + Oracle Active Data Guard + OEM / Grid Control* Proven experience with **database migrations, upgrades, and patching*** Strong SQL and PL/SQL performance tuning experience* Experience with **SingleStore and/or Microsoft SQL Server*** Scripting experience (e.g. shell scripting) for automation and monitoring* Comfortable working across **Linux/Unix and Windows environments**#### Ways of working* Detail-oriented and comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy* Confident influencing others and promoting **best practices*** Strong analytical and problem‐solving skills, especially in high‐pressure production environments* Able to collaborate across engineering, DevOps, platform, and leadership teams* Comfortable working in environments requiring **high levels of data security and compliance** (e.g. PHI awareness)#### Background* Typically **5–7+ years’ experience** in database administration or a closely related field* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience---* Work on **mission‐critical healthcare platforms** with real-world impact* Influence **database strategy and cloud migration**, not just day-to-day support* A strong, collaborative engineering culture with technical depth* Hybrid working that balances flexibility and collaboration* Long-term platform investment and meaningful technical challenges
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