Job Description

Role: Senior Database Administrator - DV

Location: Aldermaston (5 days/week onsite)

IR35: Inside

Rate: £67.49/hr (Umbrella) MAX

Duration: 12 Months (Potential extension)

Security Clearance: DV

Key Accountabilities:

• Provide primary support for Oracle and MS SQL database environments including daily operations, backup and recovery, performance monitoring and tuning, and production support.
• Development, documentation, implementation and maintenance of operational policies / best practice for the database estate.
• Continual process improvement with a focus on automation of repeatable tasks.
• Identification of self-service opportunities and ownership of implementation.
• Ensuring changes to databases and services align with operational standards, service level agreements and business requirements.
• Design and implementation of new database environments.
• Strategic planning, capacity planning, and implementing best practices for database management.
• Introduce and deploy new database technology.

Key Responsibilities:

• Full life cycle support of Oracle (19c) and MS SQL (2016, 2019 & 2022) environments.
• Provide advice and recommendations on database architecture, design, and implementation.
• Develop, support, and communicate database policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Design and implement database solutions that meet customer requirements for reliability, availability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Install, upgrade and test database software, in addition to troubleshooting database issues.
• Responsible for development of database backup and recovery procedures, ensuring data integrity and identifying potential data errors.
• Plan and perform disaster recovery testing with database restoration in alternate locations.
• Assist application development teams with planning and implementations, including review and approval of database schema changes, procedures and query optimizations.
• Maintain the performance of the database estate.
• Respond to incidents / changes within published SLA's to maintain/resume service
• Work with 3rd party suppliers as necessary to meet operational demands.
• Collaborate with other IT teams to ensure integration of databases with other systems and applications is compliant with operational standards and best practice.
• The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant   

CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. 

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on 0121 794 8181.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources on 0121 794 8181