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DBA Specialist
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Winchester, Hampshire County, SO23, England, UK
Listed on 2026-10-06
Listing for:
Experis
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-06
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Database Administrator, Disaster Recovery IT
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location:
Leicester or Hursley | Onsite 5 Days per Week
Duration: 6 months +
Security Clearance:
Active SC or DV.
Our client is seeking an experienced DBA Specialist, supporting critical database environments and ensuring the performance, availability, and security of key business systems.
This is an exciting opportunity for a database professional with strong administration, performance tuning, automation, and troubleshooting experience to work within a highly secure and complex production environment.
The Role
As a DBA Specialist, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and optimisation of critical database systems. You will play a key role in ensuring database performance, resilience, and security while supporting high-availability environments.
The successful candidate will be required to work onsite in either Leicester or Hursley five days per week and participate in an on-call rota for P1/P2 incidents, with additional compensation provided.
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain database schemas, tables, indexes, and stored procedures.
Monitor and optimise database performance across critical environments.
Perform database administration activities including backups, restores, patching, and upgrades.
Troubleshoot and resolve database-related issues and incidents.
Implement and support database security and access controls.
Manage replication, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
Support database scalability and resilience initiatives.
Contribute to automation and operational improvements.
Essential Skills & Experience
Proven experience as a Database Administrator (DBA) or DBA Specialist.
Strong knowledge of database concepts, architecture, and best practices.
Experience with one or more of the following:
Oracle
Microsoft SQL Server
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
Strong SQL skills.
Database performance tuning and optimisation experience.
Knowledge of database security principles and controls.
Experience with backup, recovery, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
Scripting experience, particularly Power Shell.
Strong Linux and Windows administration knowledge.
Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work effectively within a high-pressure production environment.
Desirable Skills
Experience with cloud-based database services such as:
AWS RDS
Azure SQL Database
Google Cloud SQL
Automation experience using Ansible.
Awareness of Apache Tomcat and JVM environments.
Experience supporting Very Large Databases (VLDBs).
Knowledge of Net App ONTAP and Snap Center.
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If you are an experienced DBA with strong database administration, performance optimisation, automation, and high-availability experience, we'd love to hear from you.
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