Senior Database Lead

Are you a Senior DBA looking for a new challenge?

Reporting to the Technical Operations Lead, the role of the Senior Database Administrator Lead, will be to support delivery of database services within the hosting environment in line with client SLAs. This will involve supporting development and implementation of the database platform ready to be populated by applications from the client and, monitoring, managing and fine-tuning this environment, throughout the whole lifecycle.

This is a Database lead role, where you will lead a small team across multiple client sites. You will be responsible for carrying out mentoring, 1-2-1's and workflows of your team.

What you will be doing:

• Implement Database environments in line with client requests
• Support resolution of issues with Database environment owning trouble tickets to conclusion
• Maintain records of current database sizes and configurations
• Maintain database backups for use in the event of system failure
• Proactively monitor database use and performance
• Advise on and implements additional database storage and new databases as required
• Administration of databases
• Ensure database designs provide for Disaster Recovery Planning
• Install and configure the database environment and software
• Manage and execute changes on the database in line with Client requests
• Attach and detach storage from the database
• Implement server specific governance including password policy, user access, default settings etc.
• Conduct all data imports, exports and adjustments to data structure and/or data model in line with client requests
• Perform regular KPI Reporting
• Develop databases that support multiple data models and extended capabilities such as spatial and graph, and support data virtualisation, distributed storage, and in memory storage e.g. for the use of high performance satellite image analysis and recognition
• Provide support for real time processing on transactional data or hybrid transactional analytic database systems

You will need:

• Significant experience in SQL Server Database Administration covering multiple versions of Microsoft SQL Server
• PostgreSQL/MySQL
• Oracle Databases
• Experience working with database performance tuning
• Ability to anticipate problems and take decisive action Out of Hours
• Maintain accurate records and documentation
• Experience applying ITIL methodology

It would be great if you had:

• Experience involving multiple software vendors
• Knowledge of Storage Technologies
• Willing to work out of hours and attend remote sites
• Experience working in virtualised environment

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time
Location: Stevenage OR Portsmouth
Security Clearance Level: Must be eligible for SC
Internal Recruiter: Josh Huggins-Smith
Salary: £55,000 to £65,000
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company?

Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

Our technical specialists deploy systems running many of the major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and multiple Linux distros. We also provide Messaging and Collaboration systems and support, Application packaging and deployment, along with supporting Infrastructure and Cloud services and support. Our time can be split between our services and project work, so we have the chance to be multi-disciplined and access to a range of technologies.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.