Senior Database Administrator

Help power healthcare platforms that matte r 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.

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.

Hybrid working:
This UK-based role follows a hybrid model, with around 40% of time per month spent in our Edinburgh of

The role 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.

• Le for Acting as a technical leader within the Database Administration
• Team Supporting and optimizing 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 platforms
• Designing and contributing to cloud migration strategies and future‑state database architecture
• Advising senior IT leadership on database platform architecture, capacity planning, and budgeting
• Overseeing database upgrades, patching, tuning, and performance monitoring
• Mentoring DBAs and developers on best practices, efficient coding, and performance optimization
• Contributing to automation through scripting, monitoring, and alerts
• Participating in an on‑call rotation, taking ownership of incidents impacting customer‑facing systems

• Experience:
  
  Expert‑level Oracle DBA experience
• Experience:
  
  Strong expertise in database tuning and performance monitoring
• Monitoring experience working with Very Large Databases
• Experience with:
  Oracle
• Exadata Oracle
• Cloud Oracle Gol
• Den Gate Oracle Active Dat
• a Guard OEM / Grid
• Control, Proven experience with database migrations, upgrades, and p
• Matching 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
• Monitoring Comfortable working across Linux/Unix and Windows environments

• 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
• Teams, comfortable working in environments requiring high levels of data security and compliance
• 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.

• Crane Ware? 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