Senior Database Administrator

Location: City of Edinburgh

# 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 Golden Gate  + 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
** Single Store 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, Dev Ops, 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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