Database Administrator (DBA)
St. James's Place
- Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
- Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
About
A proactive and meticulous person who is passionate about delivering reliable, high-performing database solutions. You'll be someone who thrives on solving complex technical problems, while maintaining high standards of quality, security, and resilience across our estate. With a natural curiosity and commitment to continuous learning, you'll stay ahead of emerging technologies and contribute ideas that help us evolve. You will be able to build strong relationships, confidently engage with technical and non-technical team members. You'll be trusted to work independently, take ownership of your workload, and support others through mentoring and knowledge sharing-bringing a positive, can-do attitude to everything you do. What you'll be doing:
Implementation of automated backup, restore and verification process for all critical databases. Ensuring availability and performance of the databases that support the system Ensure associated hardware resources allocated to the databases and to ensure high resilience and performance tuning. To work with, all members of Technology Operations, particularly Cloud Ops Engineers, Cyber, Infrastructure Engineers and other areas such as Solution Architects, Application Developers and Project teams to design the infrastructure for applications. Assess and deliver change for projects (internal to Technology Operations and to the wider business) - particularly complex change To provide guidance and support to other members of the team, enabling their technical development Recommend and deliver cost savings and cost-effective solutions Maintain the cybersecurity stance of our IT infrastructure. Identify areas for automation and deliver automated functions. Essential Criteria
Strong practical experience supporting SQL workloads. Experience of developing and managing reports with tools such as SSRS, PowerBI Highly experienced supporting enterprise infrastructure including networks, firewalls, load balancing and Active Directory Experience with PowerShell Familiarity with data warehousing concepts Managing or working within hybrid-cloud enterprise level configurations Experience with SQL database security and backup principles and services Good understanding of database workload monitoring services/products to leverage monitoring and event capabilities to trigger appropriate reactions desired Understanding of BAU maintenance activity is performed to the standard and timeliness required Knowledge of other database technologies such as RDS Oracle, MySQL, Redshift etc. Understanding of High-Availability and Disaster recovery based workloads The successful candidate will be highly technical, analytical and is comfortable in a fast-paced environment
Languages
- English
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