Principal Database Administrator Fully Remote
Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
London, Greater London, W1B, England, UK
Listed on 2026-10-23
London, Greater London, W1B, England, UK
Listing for:
interAct Consulting Limited Careers
Full Time, Remote/Work from Home
position Listed on 2026-10-23
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Database Administrator, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below
£80k-£90k | Fully remote | Permanent, full-time | Platform / Engineering
We're hiring a Principal DBA to lead and hands-on-run a 300+ production database estate—predominantly SQL Server on Azure, with a growing Cosmos DB footprint—supporting a market-leading SaaS platform 24x7.
This is a true player-coach role: you'll set the long-term database strategy and standards, improve reliability, performance, and security across the estate, and line-manage and develop our existing DBA team. You'll be the senior technical authority for database architecture, risk, and operations.
What you'll do
- Own the strategy, standards, and roadmap for the database function across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Cosmos DB.
- Get hands-on with a live production estate: performance tuning, configuration, backups, restores, disaster recovery, incident response, and release support.
- Right-size and optimise Azure SQL deployments across General Purpose, Business Critical, and Hyperscale—balancing performance, availability, and cost.
- Replace manual, undocumented changes with repeatable, auditable, well-monitored processes.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a small DBA team.
- Shape our emerging data platform direction, including Cosmos DB, Snowflake, and Azure Data Factory.
What we're looking for
- 8+ years' hands-on SQL Server DBA experience, including deep ...
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