Senior Database Administrator

Overview

Be the driving force behind enterprise-scale database performance and reliability.

Are you an experienced Database Administrator who thrives in high-performance environments? Do you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, optimizing mission-critical systems, and building resilient database platforms?

Our Company is seeking a highly skilled Senior Database Administrator (Level
3) to join our team on a 12-month contract. This is an exciting opportunity to work with large-scale SQL Server environments, modern infrastructure technologies, automation frameworks, and cloud-based solutions while making a direct impact on business-critical systems.

• As a Senior DBA, you'll play a key role in ensuring our database environments remain secure, scalable, highly available, and optimized for peak performance.
• Design and maintain High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions
• Implement and manage complex replication and data movement architectures
• Proactively monitor database environments and resolve performance bottlenecks
• Conduct advanced database tuning using execution plans, profiling tools, and wait statistics
• Lead root cause investigations and implement lasting solutions
• Drive automation initiatives through scripting and self-service tooling
• Support cloud adoption and infrastructure modernization projects
• Ensure compliance, security, auditing, encryption, and access governance
• Create and maintain technical documentation and operational standards
• Mentor and support junior Database Administrators
• Participate in critical incident response and after-hours support where required
• 6+ years' experience in enterprise database administration
• Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field
• Strong expertise in SQL Server or other enterprise RDBMS platforms
• Proven experience in High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Replication technologies
• Advanced performance tuning and query optimisation skills
• Scripting and automation experience (Power Shell, Bash, or Python)
• Strong troubleshooting and critical incident management capabilities
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Passion for collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement

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• Cloud and modern infrastructure platforms