Senior Database Administrator (DBA)
Were 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
.
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.