Database Administrator

Corecom Consulting

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

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Database Administrator / Leeds (1-2x per month in the office) / £55,000 - £65,000 About the Role We're looking for an experienced Database Administrator to take ownership of a large, business-critical database estate within a highly regulated environment. This is a hands-on role where you'll act as the gatekeeper for production databases, ensuring data security, performance, availability, and compliance at all times. You'll work closely with delivery, application support, and engineering teams to enable safe, well-governed change while protecting the integrity of production systems. The role offers significant responsibility, high visibility, and the opportunity to work on complex, high-transaction databases that underpin critical services. If you're a dependable, SQL-focused DBA who thrives in regulated environments and takes pride in keeping production systems stable and performant, this role offers real impact and long-term ownership. What We're Looking For Strong, demonstrable T-SQL expertise Proven experience in database performance tuning and optimisation Experience supporting large-scale, high-transaction databases Strong background in data optimisation for automated, high-volume systems Experience working in production-critical environments Exposure to cloud-based platforms Role Overview As a Database Administrator, you'll be responsible for the stability, security, and performance of production databases across multiple environments. Your remit includes: Acting as custodian of production database access, governance, and separation of duties Ensuring databases remain online, scalable, robust, and secure Owning monitoring, alerting, backups, indexing, and maintenance routines Proactively tuning and optimising database performance Supporting change and delivery teams during releases and incident resolution Contributing to schema changes, indexing strategies, and new database builds Supporting database consolidation and migration initiatives Key Focus Areas Safeguard production databases in line with strict regulatory and audit controls Own performance monitoring, alerting, backup, and maintenance processes Diagnose and resolve performance issues, timeouts, and failures Enable delivery teams by reducing database-related blockers Support controlled releases and major production changes What's in it for You? High-impact role safeguarding mission-critical production systems Exposure to large-scale, complex database environments Opportunity to develop cloud skills over time Organisation actively adopting modern tooling and AI-driven productivity improvements Predominantly remote working with occasional on-site attendance (approx. 15 days per year) Salary up to £65,000 Bonus up to 17% plus stocks that vest every 2 years Applications for the role close on Friday 23rd January.
If this role excites you and you want to make a tangible impact, please get in touch with
Dominic Brown
or send your CV Database Administrator / Leeds (1-2x per month in the office) / £55,000 - £65,000 'At Corecom, we don't just accept differences, we celebrate them and thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our clients and our candidates. Internally, we thrive from our differences and want our employees to be proud to be themselves and proud to be Corecom. Externally, we utilise those differences
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