Senior Database Administrator

Senior Database Administrator

Location:

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Job Purpose: The Senior Database Administrator (DBA) is responsible for the delivery, maintenance and optimisation of secure, scalable, high‑performance database services. The role requires deep technical expertise across infrastructure, application and reliability engineering with a focus on ensuring database environments remain stable, efficient and well‑automated.

Job Duties:

• Administer and maintain production and non‑production database environments.
• Monitor and optimise database performance, replication, backups and high availability configurations.
• Diagnose and resolve complex performance, reliability and capacity issues across database and infrastructure layers.
• Apply patches, upgrades and security hardening to ensure compliance and stability.
• Design and maintain automation for database provisioning, maintenance, monitoring and deployment.
• Implement configuration management and infrastructure‑as‑code using tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Collaborate with SRE and platform engineering teams to embed observability, alerting and resilience best practices.
• Work closely with the Lead DBA and development teams to implement database design standards and performance tuning best practices.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior DBAs and engineers.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis activities ensuring that preventative measures are implemented.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and scalability challenges.
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and contribute to their adoption where appropriate.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational playbooks and automation scripts to support consistency and knowledge sharing.

Knowledge,

Skills and Experience:

• Experience in Maria
  
  DB/MySQL or equivalent RDBMS environments.
• Strong knowledge of database architecture, replication, partitioning and performance optimisation.
• Proficiency in Linux administration and scripting (Bash, Shell or Python).
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible or Terraform.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across database and system layers.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and observability tooling.

• Experience with AWS RDS or other cloud‑managed database platforms.
• Knowledge of Liquibase or similar schema migration tools.
• Understanding of data protection, disaster recovery and retention strategies.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus or Grafana.

• Competitive rate of pay and pension contribution (£65,000‑£85,000)
• Generous discretionary bonus schemes, incentives and competitions
• Annual leave entitlement that increases with length of service
• 24/7, 365 days a year online GP access for you and your immediate family
• Employee wellbeing support through Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
• Long Service Recognition
• Pay‑day savings scheme, financial coach and up to 40% of earned wage ahead of payday through Wagestream

Mid‑Senior level

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