Position Overview At CreateFuture, the Senior Cloud Engineer is a vital individual contributor and a technical driving force within our delivery teams. You will work closely with clients and delivery teams to bridge the implementation gap, assisting with architectural designs and transforming them into production systems using autonomous and AI-native platforms. This role requires a modern, hybrid engineering approach, blending infrastructure mastery with software development and data engineering principles. You will act as a technical expert on projects, building trusted relationships with client stakeholders, establishing engineering best practices, and mentoring engineers within the Cloud capability. Furthermore, you will actively contribute to setting engineering standards that influence the whole CreateFuture organisation. Key Responsibilities High-Quality Execution: Proactively contribute to project teams by providing technical guidance, resolving complex technical blockages, supporting migration efforts and writing high-quality, spec-driven code. Platform Engineering: Build and maintain independent, self-service developer platforms that allow engineering teams to spin up compliant, ephemer environments automatically using GitOps workflows. AI & Agentic Infrastructure: Implement the data pipelines, workflow orchestrations, and specialised compute footprints needed to support enterprise AI applications, using technologies like AWS Bedrock and AWS AgentCore. Observability & Reliability: Build robust monitoring and observability pipelines to ensure the health, performance, and security of distributed cloud applications and AI models. FinOps Standards: Embed automated cost-estimation tools into the standard CI/CD deployment pipelines, ensuring auto-shutdown policies and resource optimisation are configured by default. Consultancy & Client Alignment Client Advisory: Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including tech leads, project managers, and enterprise architects, to ensure successful project delivery according to timelines and budgets. Commercial Growth: Have a growth mindset on projects, recognising potential operational bottlenecks or new requirements, and own communicating these throughout the team for new opportunities. Best Practice Champion: Establish best practice tools and processes within client environments, confidently challenging legacy ways of working where appropriate. Capability & Leadership Support Mentoring: Support and mentor engineers within CreateFuture and our client teams, helping them navigate their learning and technical skill gaps. Community Contribution: Actively engage in the internal engineering communities, helping to build out an internal repository of reference architectures, Infrastructure as Code templates, and technical blogs. Culture and Feedback: Help foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe team environment by providing timely, open, and honest technical feedback. Skills & Experience Core Technical Capabilities Candidates must demonstrate a hybrid balance across the three strategic pillars: Software Engineering (30%), Infrastructure (40%), and Data Engineering (30%). Infrastructure & Automation (40%): Lots of experience in writing declarative Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, container orchestration with Kubernetes (managing clusters, nodes, and pods), and building CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions. Software & Agentic Engineering (30%): Proficiency with modern scripting languages for building custom AI agents, configuring workflow orchestration, connecting enterprise API integrations, and implementing agentic guardrails. Data Engineering (30%): Practical experience implementing components of data pipelines, including real-time streaming tools (AWS Kinesis, Kafka), data orchestration (dbt, Airflow), and managing vector databases for RAG architectures. Observability & Cost Management: SRE/Platform experience with the practical application of real-time monitoring and cloud cost optimisation using native CSP tools or utilities like Infracost and Karpenter. Domain & Sector Experience Regulated Industries: Experience delivering secure platforms within highly regulated environments, such as iGaming, financial services, or banking, where zero trust security and strict compliance controls are mandatory is highly advantageous. Consulting: Proven experience operating in a client-facing or consulting engineering role, demonstrating strong communication skills, relationship-building capabilities, and adaptability across changing technical contexts. Preferred Knowledge-level & Certifications Associate-level cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Azure AZ-104). At least one professional-level certification. Progressing toward or holding multiple professional certifications such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS ML Engineer Associate, or FinOps Certified Practitioner. What we'll offer you: We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You'll be part of a supportive and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed. We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
21/07/2026
Full time
Position Overview At CreateFuture, the Senior Cloud Engineer is a vital individual contributor and a technical driving force within our delivery teams. You will work closely with clients and delivery teams to bridge the implementation gap, assisting with architectural designs and transforming them into production systems using autonomous and AI-native platforms. This role requires a modern, hybrid engineering approach, blending infrastructure mastery with software development and data engineering principles. You will act as a technical expert on projects, building trusted relationships with client stakeholders, establishing engineering best practices, and mentoring engineers within the Cloud capability. Furthermore, you will actively contribute to setting engineering standards that influence the whole CreateFuture organisation. Key Responsibilities High-Quality Execution: Proactively contribute to project teams by providing technical guidance, resolving complex technical blockages, supporting migration efforts and writing high-quality, spec-driven code. Platform Engineering: Build and maintain independent, self-service developer platforms that allow engineering teams to spin up compliant, ephemer environments automatically using GitOps workflows. AI & Agentic Infrastructure: Implement the data pipelines, workflow orchestrations, and specialised compute footprints needed to support enterprise AI applications, using technologies like AWS Bedrock and AWS AgentCore. Observability & Reliability: Build robust monitoring and observability pipelines to ensure the health, performance, and security of distributed cloud applications and AI models. FinOps Standards: Embed automated cost-estimation tools into the standard CI/CD deployment pipelines, ensuring auto-shutdown policies and resource optimisation are configured by default. Consultancy & Client Alignment Client Advisory: Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including tech leads, project managers, and enterprise architects, to ensure successful project delivery according to timelines and budgets. Commercial Growth: Have a growth mindset on projects, recognising potential operational bottlenecks or new requirements, and own communicating these throughout the team for new opportunities. Best Practice Champion: Establish best practice tools and processes within client environments, confidently challenging legacy ways of working where appropriate. Capability & Leadership Support Mentoring: Support and mentor engineers within CreateFuture and our client teams, helping them navigate their learning and technical skill gaps. Community Contribution: Actively engage in the internal engineering communities, helping to build out an internal repository of reference architectures, Infrastructure as Code templates, and technical blogs. Culture and Feedback: Help foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe team environment by providing timely, open, and honest technical feedback. Skills & Experience Core Technical Capabilities Candidates must demonstrate a hybrid balance across the three strategic pillars: Software Engineering (30%), Infrastructure (40%), and Data Engineering (30%). Infrastructure & Automation (40%): Lots of experience in writing declarative Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, container orchestration with Kubernetes (managing clusters, nodes, and pods), and building CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions. Software & Agentic Engineering (30%): Proficiency with modern scripting languages for building custom AI agents, configuring workflow orchestration, connecting enterprise API integrations, and implementing agentic guardrails. Data Engineering (30%): Practical experience implementing components of data pipelines, including real-time streaming tools (AWS Kinesis, Kafka), data orchestration (dbt, Airflow), and managing vector databases for RAG architectures. Observability & Cost Management: SRE/Platform experience with the practical application of real-time monitoring and cloud cost optimisation using native CSP tools or utilities like Infracost and Karpenter. Domain & Sector Experience Regulated Industries: Experience delivering secure platforms within highly regulated environments, such as iGaming, financial services, or banking, where zero trust security and strict compliance controls are mandatory is highly advantageous. Consulting: Proven experience operating in a client-facing or consulting engineering role, demonstrating strong communication skills, relationship-building capabilities, and adaptability across changing technical contexts. Preferred Knowledge-level & Certifications Associate-level cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Azure AZ-104). At least one professional-level certification. Progressing toward or holding multiple professional certifications such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS ML Engineer Associate, or FinOps Certified Practitioner. What we'll offer you: We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You'll be part of a supportive and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed. We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
Position Overview At CreateFuture, the Senior Cloud Engineer is a vital individual contributor and a technical driving force within our delivery teams. You will work closely with clients and delivery teams to bridge the implementation gap, assisting with architectural designs and transforming them into production systems using autonomous and AI-native platforms. This role requires a modern, hybrid engineering approach, blending infrastructure mastery with software development and data engineering principles. You will act as a technical expert on projects, building trusted relationships with client stakeholders, establishing engineering best practices, and mentoring engineers within the Cloud capability. Furthermore, you will actively contribute to setting engineering standards that influence the whole CreateFuture organisation. Key Responsibilities High-Quality Execution: Proactively contribute to project teams by providing technical guidance, resolving complex technical blockages, supporting migration efforts and writing high-quality, spec-driven code. Platform Engineering: Build and maintain independent, self-service developer platforms that allow engineering teams to spin up compliant, ephemer environments automatically using GitOps workflows. AI & Agentic Infrastructure: Implement the data pipelines, workflow orchestrations, and specialised compute footprints needed to support enterprise AI applications, using technologies like AWS Bedrock and AWS AgentCore. Observability & Reliability: Build robust monitoring and observability pipelines to ensure the health, performance, and security of distributed cloud applications and AI models. FinOps Standards: Embed automated cost-estimation tools into the standard CI/CD deployment pipelines, ensuring auto-shutdown policies and resource optimisation are configured by default. Consultancy & Client Alignment Client Advisory: Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including tech leads, project managers, and enterprise architects, to ensure successful project delivery according to timelines and budgets. Commercial Growth: Have a growth mindset on projects, recognising potential operational bottlenecks or new requirements, and own communicating these throughout the team for new opportunities. Best Practice Champion: Establish best practice tools and processes within client environments, confidently challenging legacy ways of working where appropriate. Capability & Leadership Support Mentoring: Support and mentor engineers within CreateFuture and our client teams, helping them navigate their learning and technical skill gaps. Community Contribution: Actively engage in the internal engineering communities, helping to build out an internal repository of reference architectures, Infrastructure as Code templates, and technical blogs. Culture and Feedback: Help foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe team environment by providing timely, open, and honest technical feedback. Skills & Experience Core Technical Capabilities Candidates must demonstrate a hybrid balance across the three strategic pillars: Software Engineering (30%), Infrastructure (40%), and Data Engineering (30%). Infrastructure & Automation (40%): Lots of experience in writing declarative Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, container orchestration with Kubernetes (managing clusters, nodes, and pods), and building CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions. Software & Agentic Engineering (30%): Proficiency with modern scripting languages for building custom AI agents, configuring workflow orchestration, connecting enterprise API integrations, and implementing agentic guardrails. Data Engineering (30%): Practical experience implementing components of data pipelines, including real-time streaming tools (AWS Kinesis, Kafka), data orchestration (dbt, Airflow), and managing vector databases for RAG architectures. Observability & Cost Management: SRE/Platform experience with the practical application of real-time monitoring and cloud cost optimisation using native CSP tools or utilities like Infracost and Karpenter. Domain & Sector Experience Regulated Industries: Experience delivering secure platforms within highly regulated environments, such as iGaming, financial services, or banking, where zero trust security and strict compliance controls are mandatory is highly advantageous. Consulting: Proven experience operating in a client-facing or consulting engineering role, demonstrating strong communication skills, relationship-building capabilities, and adaptability across changing technical contexts. Preferred Knowledge-level & Certifications Associate-level cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Azure AZ-104). At least one professional-level certification. Progressing toward or holding multiple professional certifications such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS ML Engineer Associate, or FinOps Certified Practitioner. What we'll offer you: We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You'll be part of a supportive and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed. We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
21/07/2026
Full time
Position Overview At CreateFuture, the Senior Cloud Engineer is a vital individual contributor and a technical driving force within our delivery teams. You will work closely with clients and delivery teams to bridge the implementation gap, assisting with architectural designs and transforming them into production systems using autonomous and AI-native platforms. This role requires a modern, hybrid engineering approach, blending infrastructure mastery with software development and data engineering principles. You will act as a technical expert on projects, building trusted relationships with client stakeholders, establishing engineering best practices, and mentoring engineers within the Cloud capability. Furthermore, you will actively contribute to setting engineering standards that influence the whole CreateFuture organisation. Key Responsibilities High-Quality Execution: Proactively contribute to project teams by providing technical guidance, resolving complex technical blockages, supporting migration efforts and writing high-quality, spec-driven code. Platform Engineering: Build and maintain independent, self-service developer platforms that allow engineering teams to spin up compliant, ephemer environments automatically using GitOps workflows. AI & Agentic Infrastructure: Implement the data pipelines, workflow orchestrations, and specialised compute footprints needed to support enterprise AI applications, using technologies like AWS Bedrock and AWS AgentCore. Observability & Reliability: Build robust monitoring and observability pipelines to ensure the health, performance, and security of distributed cloud applications and AI models. FinOps Standards: Embed automated cost-estimation tools into the standard CI/CD deployment pipelines, ensuring auto-shutdown policies and resource optimisation are configured by default. Consultancy & Client Alignment Client Advisory: Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including tech leads, project managers, and enterprise architects, to ensure successful project delivery according to timelines and budgets. Commercial Growth: Have a growth mindset on projects, recognising potential operational bottlenecks or new requirements, and own communicating these throughout the team for new opportunities. Best Practice Champion: Establish best practice tools and processes within client environments, confidently challenging legacy ways of working where appropriate. Capability & Leadership Support Mentoring: Support and mentor engineers within CreateFuture and our client teams, helping them navigate their learning and technical skill gaps. Community Contribution: Actively engage in the internal engineering communities, helping to build out an internal repository of reference architectures, Infrastructure as Code templates, and technical blogs. Culture and Feedback: Help foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe team environment by providing timely, open, and honest technical feedback. Skills & Experience Core Technical Capabilities Candidates must demonstrate a hybrid balance across the three strategic pillars: Software Engineering (30%), Infrastructure (40%), and Data Engineering (30%). Infrastructure & Automation (40%): Lots of experience in writing declarative Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, container orchestration with Kubernetes (managing clusters, nodes, and pods), and building CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions. Software & Agentic Engineering (30%): Proficiency with modern scripting languages for building custom AI agents, configuring workflow orchestration, connecting enterprise API integrations, and implementing agentic guardrails. Data Engineering (30%): Practical experience implementing components of data pipelines, including real-time streaming tools (AWS Kinesis, Kafka), data orchestration (dbt, Airflow), and managing vector databases for RAG architectures. Observability & Cost Management: SRE/Platform experience with the practical application of real-time monitoring and cloud cost optimisation using native CSP tools or utilities like Infracost and Karpenter. Domain & Sector Experience Regulated Industries: Experience delivering secure platforms within highly regulated environments, such as iGaming, financial services, or banking, where zero trust security and strict compliance controls are mandatory is highly advantageous. Consulting: Proven experience operating in a client-facing or consulting engineering role, demonstrating strong communication skills, relationship-building capabilities, and adaptability across changing technical contexts. Preferred Knowledge-level & Certifications Associate-level cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Azure AZ-104). At least one professional-level certification. Progressing toward or holding multiple professional certifications such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS ML Engineer Associate, or FinOps Certified Practitioner. What we'll offer you: We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You'll be part of a supportive and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed. We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
We are seeking an experienced Senior SQL Server Engineer to join our team in London. This role requires a seasoned professional who can combine deep technical database expertise with formidable team management capabilities. The ideal candidate can work independently, help drive database strategy, optimization, and administration. Key Responsibilities Technical Core Requirements: Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft SQL Server, including distributed Always On, and at least one open-source RDBMS platform (MySQL or PostgreSQL). Deep knowledge of database architecture, performance tuning, optimization, database design, backup/recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery. Cloud Database Expertise: Multiple years of production experience with AWS services such as RDS, Redshift or Snowflake, DynamoDB/Document DB; experience in migration, scaling, optimization, security best practices, compliance, and cost optimization. Skill Requirements Automation & Scripting (Python, PowerShell, Ansible) and building automated deployment pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring solutions, and operational dashboards. Leadership & Management Responsibilities Team Leadership: Mentor a team of Offshore Database Administrators, provide technical guidance and best practice recommendations, foster a collaborative, learning focused environment. Strategic Execution: Define and execute database strategy aligned with business objectives, establish standards, procedures, and operational documentation, drive continuous improvement initiatives. Stakeholder Management: Partner with development teams, architects, and infrastructure teams globally, communicate technical concepts to non technical stakeholders, participate in capacity planning and architectural reviews. Off hours Production Support: Participate in a rotation of one weekend every 8 weeks; major events may require all hands support. Required Qualifications Experience: 8+ years of database administration with at least 2 of 3 relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL), 3+ years in a client facing leadership or team lead capacity, 3+ years working with AWS cloud database services, proven history managing large mission critical production databases. Technical Skills: Advanced SQL programming and query optimization, partitioning, compression, database security, access control, auditing, compliance, active/passive clusters, Always On clusters, Azure Database (plus), performance monitoring, troubleshooting, data modeling, schema design, version control (Bitbucket). Soft Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, strong problem solving and analytical thinking, ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities, collaborative mindset with cross functional teams, strategic thinking with attention to operational detail. Preferred Qualifications Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field. AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Database - Specialty, Solutions Architect). Database vendor certifications (Microsoft, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL). Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. Experience with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana. Knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and exposure to data warehousing concepts and ETL processes. What We Offer Opportunity to lead and shape database strategy for a growing organization. Work with innovative cloud technologies and modern database platforms. Collaborative, innovative team environment.
21/07/2026
Full time
We are seeking an experienced Senior SQL Server Engineer to join our team in London. This role requires a seasoned professional who can combine deep technical database expertise with formidable team management capabilities. The ideal candidate can work independently, help drive database strategy, optimization, and administration. Key Responsibilities Technical Core Requirements: Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft SQL Server, including distributed Always On, and at least one open-source RDBMS platform (MySQL or PostgreSQL). Deep knowledge of database architecture, performance tuning, optimization, database design, backup/recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery. Cloud Database Expertise: Multiple years of production experience with AWS services such as RDS, Redshift or Snowflake, DynamoDB/Document DB; experience in migration, scaling, optimization, security best practices, compliance, and cost optimization. Skill Requirements Automation & Scripting (Python, PowerShell, Ansible) and building automated deployment pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring solutions, and operational dashboards. Leadership & Management Responsibilities Team Leadership: Mentor a team of Offshore Database Administrators, provide technical guidance and best practice recommendations, foster a collaborative, learning focused environment. Strategic Execution: Define and execute database strategy aligned with business objectives, establish standards, procedures, and operational documentation, drive continuous improvement initiatives. Stakeholder Management: Partner with development teams, architects, and infrastructure teams globally, communicate technical concepts to non technical stakeholders, participate in capacity planning and architectural reviews. Off hours Production Support: Participate in a rotation of one weekend every 8 weeks; major events may require all hands support. Required Qualifications Experience: 8+ years of database administration with at least 2 of 3 relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL), 3+ years in a client facing leadership or team lead capacity, 3+ years working with AWS cloud database services, proven history managing large mission critical production databases. Technical Skills: Advanced SQL programming and query optimization, partitioning, compression, database security, access control, auditing, compliance, active/passive clusters, Always On clusters, Azure Database (plus), performance monitoring, troubleshooting, data modeling, schema design, version control (Bitbucket). Soft Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, strong problem solving and analytical thinking, ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities, collaborative mindset with cross functional teams, strategic thinking with attention to operational detail. Preferred Qualifications Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field. AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Database - Specialty, Solutions Architect). Database vendor certifications (Microsoft, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL). Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. Experience with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana. Knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and exposure to data warehousing concepts and ETL processes. What We Offer Opportunity to lead and shape database strategy for a growing organization. Work with innovative cloud technologies and modern database platforms. Collaborative, innovative team environment.
Position Overview At CreateFuture, the Senior Cloud Engineer is a vital individual contributor and a technical driving force within our delivery teams. You will work closely with clients and delivery teams to bridge the implementation gap, assisting with architectural designs and transforming them into production systems using autonomous and AI-native platforms. This role requires a modern, hybrid engineering approach, blending infrastructure mastery with software development and data engineering principles. You will act as a technical expert on projects, building trusted relationships with client stakeholders, establishing engineering best practices, and mentoring engineers within the Cloud capability. Furthermore, you will actively contribute to setting engineering standards that influence the whole CreateFuture organisation. Key Responsibilities High-Quality Execution: Proactively contribute to project teams by providing technical guidance, resolving complex technical blockages, supporting migration efforts and writing high-quality, spec-driven code. Platform Engineering: Build and maintain independent, self-service developer platforms that allow engineering teams to spin up compliant, ephemer environments automatically using GitOps workflows. AI & Agentic Infrastructure: Implement the data pipelines, workflow orchestrations, and specialised compute footprints needed to support enterprise AI applications, using technologies like AWS Bedrock and AWS AgentCore. Observability & Reliability: Build robust monitoring and observability pipelines to ensure the health, performance, and security of distributed cloud applications and AI models. FinOps Standards: Embed automated cost-estimation tools into the standard CI/CD deployment pipelines, ensuring auto-shutdown policies and resource optimisation are configured by default. Consultancy & Client Alignment Client Advisory: Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including tech leads, project managers, and enterprise architects, to ensure successful project delivery according to timelines and budgets. Commercial Growth: Have a growth mindset on projects, recognising potential operational bottlenecks or new requirements, and own communicating these throughout the team for new opportunities. Best Practice Champion: Establish best practice tools and processes within client environments, confidently challenging legacy ways of working where appropriate. Capability & Leadership Support Mentoring: Support and mentor engineers within CreateFuture and our client teams, helping them navigate their learning and technical skill gaps. Community Contribution: Actively engage in the internal engineering communities, helping to build out an internal repository of reference architectures, Infrastructure as Code templates, and technical blogs. Culture and Feedback: Help foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe team environment by providing timely, open, and honest technical feedback. Skills & Experience Core Technical Capabilities Candidates must demonstrate a hybrid balance across the three strategic pillars: Software Engineering (30%), Infrastructure (40%), and Data Engineering (30%). Infrastructure & Automation (40%): Lots of experience in writing declarative Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, container orchestration with Kubernetes (managing clusters, nodes, and pods), and building CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions. Software & Agentic Engineering (30%): Proficiency with modern scripting languages for building custom AI agents, configuring workflow orchestration, connecting enterprise API integrations, and implementing agentic guardrails. Data Engineering (30%): Practical experience implementing components of data pipelines, including real-time streaming tools (AWS Kinesis, Kafka), data orchestration (dbt, Airflow), and managing vector databases for RAG architectures. Observability & Cost Management: SRE/Platform experience with the practical application of real-time monitoring and cloud cost optimisation using native CSP tools or utilities like Infracost and Karpenter. Domain & Sector Experience Regulated Industries: Experience delivering secure platforms within highly regulated environments, such as iGaming, financial services, or banking, where zero trust security and strict compliance controls are mandatory is highly advantageous. Consulting: Proven experience operating in a client-facing or consulting engineering role, demonstrating strong communication skills, relationship-building capabilities, and adaptability across changing technical contexts. Preferred Knowledge-level & Certifications Associate-level cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Azure AZ-104). At least one professional-level certification. Progressing toward or holding multiple professional certifications such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS ML Engineer Associate, or FinOps Certified Practitioner. What we'll offer you: We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You'll be part of a supportive and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed. We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
21/07/2026
Full time
Position Overview At CreateFuture, the Senior Cloud Engineer is a vital individual contributor and a technical driving force within our delivery teams. You will work closely with clients and delivery teams to bridge the implementation gap, assisting with architectural designs and transforming them into production systems using autonomous and AI-native platforms. This role requires a modern, hybrid engineering approach, blending infrastructure mastery with software development and data engineering principles. You will act as a technical expert on projects, building trusted relationships with client stakeholders, establishing engineering best practices, and mentoring engineers within the Cloud capability. Furthermore, you will actively contribute to setting engineering standards that influence the whole CreateFuture organisation. Key Responsibilities High-Quality Execution: Proactively contribute to project teams by providing technical guidance, resolving complex technical blockages, supporting migration efforts and writing high-quality, spec-driven code. Platform Engineering: Build and maintain independent, self-service developer platforms that allow engineering teams to spin up compliant, ephemer environments automatically using GitOps workflows. AI & Agentic Infrastructure: Implement the data pipelines, workflow orchestrations, and specialised compute footprints needed to support enterprise AI applications, using technologies like AWS Bedrock and AWS AgentCore. Observability & Reliability: Build robust monitoring and observability pipelines to ensure the health, performance, and security of distributed cloud applications and AI models. FinOps Standards: Embed automated cost-estimation tools into the standard CI/CD deployment pipelines, ensuring auto-shutdown policies and resource optimisation are configured by default. Consultancy & Client Alignment Client Advisory: Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including tech leads, project managers, and enterprise architects, to ensure successful project delivery according to timelines and budgets. Commercial Growth: Have a growth mindset on projects, recognising potential operational bottlenecks or new requirements, and own communicating these throughout the team for new opportunities. Best Practice Champion: Establish best practice tools and processes within client environments, confidently challenging legacy ways of working where appropriate. Capability & Leadership Support Mentoring: Support and mentor engineers within CreateFuture and our client teams, helping them navigate their learning and technical skill gaps. Community Contribution: Actively engage in the internal engineering communities, helping to build out an internal repository of reference architectures, Infrastructure as Code templates, and technical blogs. Culture and Feedback: Help foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe team environment by providing timely, open, and honest technical feedback. Skills & Experience Core Technical Capabilities Candidates must demonstrate a hybrid balance across the three strategic pillars: Software Engineering (30%), Infrastructure (40%), and Data Engineering (30%). Infrastructure & Automation (40%): Lots of experience in writing declarative Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, container orchestration with Kubernetes (managing clusters, nodes, and pods), and building CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions. Software & Agentic Engineering (30%): Proficiency with modern scripting languages for building custom AI agents, configuring workflow orchestration, connecting enterprise API integrations, and implementing agentic guardrails. Data Engineering (30%): Practical experience implementing components of data pipelines, including real-time streaming tools (AWS Kinesis, Kafka), data orchestration (dbt, Airflow), and managing vector databases for RAG architectures. Observability & Cost Management: SRE/Platform experience with the practical application of real-time monitoring and cloud cost optimisation using native CSP tools or utilities like Infracost and Karpenter. Domain & Sector Experience Regulated Industries: Experience delivering secure platforms within highly regulated environments, such as iGaming, financial services, or banking, where zero trust security and strict compliance controls are mandatory is highly advantageous. Consulting: Proven experience operating in a client-facing or consulting engineering role, demonstrating strong communication skills, relationship-building capabilities, and adaptability across changing technical contexts. Preferred Knowledge-level & Certifications Associate-level cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Azure AZ-104). At least one professional-level certification. Progressing toward or holding multiple professional certifications such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS ML Engineer Associate, or FinOps Certified Practitioner. What we'll offer you: We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You'll be part of a supportive and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed. We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
Position Overview At CreateFuture, the Senior Cloud Engineer is a vital individual contributor and a technical driving force within our delivery teams. You will work closely with clients and delivery teams to bridge the implementation gap, assisting with architectural designs and transforming them into production systems using autonomous and AI-native platforms. This role requires a modern, hybrid engineering approach, blending infrastructure mastery with software development and data engineering principles. You will act as a technical expert on projects, building trusted relationships with client stakeholders, establishing engineering best practices, and mentoring engineers within the Cloud capability. Furthermore, you will actively contribute to setting engineering standards that influence the whole CreateFuture organisation. Key Responsibilities High-Quality Execution: Proactively contribute to project teams by providing technical guidance, resolving complex technical blockages, supporting migration efforts and writing high-quality, spec-driven code. Platform Engineering: Build and maintain independent, self-service developer platforms that allow engineering teams to spin up compliant, ephemer environments automatically using GitOps workflows. AI & Agentic Infrastructure: Implement the data pipelines, workflow orchestrations, and specialised compute footprints needed to support enterprise AI applications, using technologies like AWS Bedrock and AWS AgentCore. Observability & Reliability: Build robust monitoring and observability pipelines to ensure the health, performance, and security of distributed cloud applications and AI models. FinOps Standards: Embed automated cost-estimation tools into the standard CI/CD deployment pipelines, ensuring auto-shutdown policies and resource optimisation are configured by default. Consultancy & Client Alignment Client Advisory: Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including tech leads, project managers, and enterprise architects, to ensure successful project delivery according to timelines and budgets. Commercial Growth: Have a growth mindset on projects, recognising potential operational bottlenecks or new requirements, and own communicating these throughout the team for new opportunities. Best Practice Champion: Establish best practice tools and processes within client environments, confidently challenging legacy ways of working where appropriate. Capability & Leadership Support Mentoring: Support and mentor engineers within CreateFuture and our client teams, helping them navigate their learning and technical skill gaps. Community Contribution: Actively engage in the internal engineering communities, helping to build out an internal repository of reference architectures, Infrastructure as Code templates, and technical blogs. Culture and Feedback: Help foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe team environment by providing timely, open, and honest technical feedback. Skills & Experience Core Technical Capabilities Candidates must demonstrate a hybrid balance across the three strategic pillars: Software Engineering (30%), Infrastructure (40%), and Data Engineering (30%). Infrastructure & Automation (40%): Lots of experience in writing declarative Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, container orchestration with Kubernetes (managing clusters, nodes, and pods), and building CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions. Software & Agentic Engineering (30%): Proficiency with modern scripting languages for building custom AI agents, configuring workflow orchestration, connecting enterprise API integrations, and implementing agentic guardrails. Data Engineering (30%): Practical experience implementing components of data pipelines, including real-time streaming tools (AWS Kinesis, Kafka), data orchestration (dbt, Airflow), and managing vector databases for RAG architectures. Observability & Cost Management: SRE/Platform experience with the practical application of real-time monitoring and cloud cost optimisation using native CSP tools or utilities like Infracost and Karpenter. Domain & Sector Experience Regulated Industries: Experience delivering secure platforms within highly regulated environments, such as iGaming, financial services, or banking, where zero trust security and strict compliance controls are mandatory is highly advantageous. Consulting: Proven experience operating in a client-facing or consulting engineering role, demonstrating strong communication skills, relationship-building capabilities, and adaptability across changing technical contexts. Preferred Knowledge-level & Certifications Associate-level cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Azure AZ-104). At least one professional-level certification. Progressing toward or holding multiple professional certifications such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS ML Engineer Associate, or FinOps Certified Practitioner. What we'll offer you: We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You'll be part of a supportive and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed. We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
21/07/2026
Full time
Position Overview At CreateFuture, the Senior Cloud Engineer is a vital individual contributor and a technical driving force within our delivery teams. You will work closely with clients and delivery teams to bridge the implementation gap, assisting with architectural designs and transforming them into production systems using autonomous and AI-native platforms. This role requires a modern, hybrid engineering approach, blending infrastructure mastery with software development and data engineering principles. You will act as a technical expert on projects, building trusted relationships with client stakeholders, establishing engineering best practices, and mentoring engineers within the Cloud capability. Furthermore, you will actively contribute to setting engineering standards that influence the whole CreateFuture organisation. Key Responsibilities High-Quality Execution: Proactively contribute to project teams by providing technical guidance, resolving complex technical blockages, supporting migration efforts and writing high-quality, spec-driven code. Platform Engineering: Build and maintain independent, self-service developer platforms that allow engineering teams to spin up compliant, ephemer environments automatically using GitOps workflows. AI & Agentic Infrastructure: Implement the data pipelines, workflow orchestrations, and specialised compute footprints needed to support enterprise AI applications, using technologies like AWS Bedrock and AWS AgentCore. Observability & Reliability: Build robust monitoring and observability pipelines to ensure the health, performance, and security of distributed cloud applications and AI models. FinOps Standards: Embed automated cost-estimation tools into the standard CI/CD deployment pipelines, ensuring auto-shutdown policies and resource optimisation are configured by default. Consultancy & Client Alignment Client Advisory: Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including tech leads, project managers, and enterprise architects, to ensure successful project delivery according to timelines and budgets. Commercial Growth: Have a growth mindset on projects, recognising potential operational bottlenecks or new requirements, and own communicating these throughout the team for new opportunities. Best Practice Champion: Establish best practice tools and processes within client environments, confidently challenging legacy ways of working where appropriate. Capability & Leadership Support Mentoring: Support and mentor engineers within CreateFuture and our client teams, helping them navigate their learning and technical skill gaps. Community Contribution: Actively engage in the internal engineering communities, helping to build out an internal repository of reference architectures, Infrastructure as Code templates, and technical blogs. Culture and Feedback: Help foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe team environment by providing timely, open, and honest technical feedback. Skills & Experience Core Technical Capabilities Candidates must demonstrate a hybrid balance across the three strategic pillars: Software Engineering (30%), Infrastructure (40%), and Data Engineering (30%). Infrastructure & Automation (40%): Lots of experience in writing declarative Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, container orchestration with Kubernetes (managing clusters, nodes, and pods), and building CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions. Software & Agentic Engineering (30%): Proficiency with modern scripting languages for building custom AI agents, configuring workflow orchestration, connecting enterprise API integrations, and implementing agentic guardrails. Data Engineering (30%): Practical experience implementing components of data pipelines, including real-time streaming tools (AWS Kinesis, Kafka), data orchestration (dbt, Airflow), and managing vector databases for RAG architectures. Observability & Cost Management: SRE/Platform experience with the practical application of real-time monitoring and cloud cost optimisation using native CSP tools or utilities like Infracost and Karpenter. Domain & Sector Experience Regulated Industries: Experience delivering secure platforms within highly regulated environments, such as iGaming, financial services, or banking, where zero trust security and strict compliance controls are mandatory is highly advantageous. Consulting: Proven experience operating in a client-facing or consulting engineering role, demonstrating strong communication skills, relationship-building capabilities, and adaptability across changing technical contexts. Preferred Knowledge-level & Certifications Associate-level cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Azure AZ-104). At least one professional-level certification. Progressing toward or holding multiple professional certifications such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS ML Engineer Associate, or FinOps Certified Practitioner. What we'll offer you: We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You'll be part of a supportive and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed. We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
3rd Line Oracle Database Administrator Location: 90% to Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire / 10% West London Security Clearance Level: High -DV 'Developed Vetting' Overview We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated third line Oracle Database Administrator, with high levels of security clearance, to join our growing team of IT experts in delivering high quality IT services to our government and commercial customers. Responsibilities include providing enterprise operational database support and maintenance services to a complex range of imagery and geospatial system capabilities in a high availability operational environment. Responsibilities Provide enterprise operational database support and maintenance for Oracle databases, and to a lesser extent MSSQL and PostgreSQL, across a multi site enterprise solution. Maintain and update Data Models and Data Definition Language, ensuring database integrity. Support systems incorporating ClearCase and ClearQuest software and apply patch fixes. Interact with customers and multiple providers, agencies and customer organisations, delivering day to day objectives and ensuring compliance with project milestones, KPI's and SLA's. Provide remote and on site support, including occasional out of hours on call support. Contribute to the creation and ongoing maintenance of technical documentation and support change projects when required. Qualifications Experience in an ITILv3 support enterprise environment. Oracle DBA (10g/11g) experience in an operational support environment. Knowledge of the change and operational release cycle, including systems integration, development and test. Experience with IT architectures and the application of software/system engineering principles within a secure IT environment. Proactive self starter able to respond to complex situations with little oversight and engage other technical experts as needed. Experience with Oracle 12c support, Windows Server, VMWare environments, WebSphere and JBoss applications. Experience with Microsoft SQL. Any experience working in a Defence environment, and/or with imagery and geospatial tooling and datasets would be highly desirable but is not essential. Occasional travel to other Leidos and customer sites may be required. Remaining up to date with new technologies is part of the job. Clearance Requirements Clearance to Start DV Clearance for Role DV Benefits Contributory Pension Scheme Private Medical Insurance 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays) Access to Flexible benefits (life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme) Dynamic Working Commitment to Diversity We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.
19/07/2026
Full time
3rd Line Oracle Database Administrator Location: 90% to Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire / 10% West London Security Clearance Level: High -DV 'Developed Vetting' Overview We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated third line Oracle Database Administrator, with high levels of security clearance, to join our growing team of IT experts in delivering high quality IT services to our government and commercial customers. Responsibilities include providing enterprise operational database support and maintenance services to a complex range of imagery and geospatial system capabilities in a high availability operational environment. Responsibilities Provide enterprise operational database support and maintenance for Oracle databases, and to a lesser extent MSSQL and PostgreSQL, across a multi site enterprise solution. Maintain and update Data Models and Data Definition Language, ensuring database integrity. Support systems incorporating ClearCase and ClearQuest software and apply patch fixes. Interact with customers and multiple providers, agencies and customer organisations, delivering day to day objectives and ensuring compliance with project milestones, KPI's and SLA's. Provide remote and on site support, including occasional out of hours on call support. Contribute to the creation and ongoing maintenance of technical documentation and support change projects when required. Qualifications Experience in an ITILv3 support enterprise environment. Oracle DBA (10g/11g) experience in an operational support environment. Knowledge of the change and operational release cycle, including systems integration, development and test. Experience with IT architectures and the application of software/system engineering principles within a secure IT environment. Proactive self starter able to respond to complex situations with little oversight and engage other technical experts as needed. Experience with Oracle 12c support, Windows Server, VMWare environments, WebSphere and JBoss applications. Experience with Microsoft SQL. Any experience working in a Defence environment, and/or with imagery and geospatial tooling and datasets would be highly desirable but is not essential. Occasional travel to other Leidos and customer sites may be required. Remaining up to date with new technologies is part of the job. Clearance Requirements Clearance to Start DV Clearance for Role DV Benefits Contributory Pension Scheme Private Medical Insurance 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays) Access to Flexible benefits (life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme) Dynamic Working Commitment to Diversity We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.
A global RegTech business is seeking a Database Administrator to support SQL Server databases critical to business operations. This role involves hands-on DBA activities, including performance tuning, automation of processes using T-SQL and PowerShell, and responding to database incidents. The ideal candidate will have experience with cloud environments and strong communication skills to collaborate with development teams. This position offers a chance to work at the forefront of regulatory technology and make a significant impact in the industry.
19/07/2026
Full time
A global RegTech business is seeking a Database Administrator to support SQL Server databases critical to business operations. This role involves hands-on DBA activities, including performance tuning, automation of processes using T-SQL and PowerShell, and responding to database incidents. The ideal candidate will have experience with cloud environments and strong communication skills to collaborate with development teams. This position offers a chance to work at the forefront of regulatory technology and make a significant impact in the industry.
Role Title: Oracle DBA Start Date: 29th July 2026 End Date: 30th November 2026 Rate: up to £375 per day umbrella (inside IR35) Location: Sheffield 3 days in the office Role SummaryWe are seeking an experienced Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) to manage, maintain, and optimize mission-critical Oracle database environments. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters), Oracle Data Guard, Performance Tuning & Optimization, and RMAN (Backup & Recovery), ensuring high availability, disaster recovery readiness, optimal performance, and operational excellence across enterprise database platforms. The successful candidate will be responsible for the installation, configuration, administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and support of Oracle databases while maintaining security, reliability, and business continuity. Experience with Oracle GoldenGate and HashiCorp Vault is highly desirable and will be considered an advantage. Key Responsibilities Administer, maintain, and support Oracle database environments in production, testing, and development landscapes. Design, implement, and manage Oracle RAC configurations to ensure high availability, scalability, and failover capabilities. Configure, monitor, and support Oracle Data Guard environments, including physical and logical standby databases, switchover, and failover activities. Perform proactive database monitoring and troubleshooting to maintain system health, availability, and performance. Lead database performance tuning initiatives by analyzing SQL execution plans, optimizing queries, and identifying system bottlenecks. Monitor database resource utilisation and recommend improvements to enhance performance and efficiency. Develop and execute backup and recovery strategies using Oracle RMAN, ensuring successful database restoration and disaster recovery preparedness. Conduct backup validation, recovery testing, and regular disaster recovery exercises. Manage database patching, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management activities with minimal business disruption. Implement and maintain database security standards, user access controls, and compliance requirements. Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and support teams to ensure seamless database operations and issue resolution. Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and best practice guidelines. Provide on-call support and participate in incident management and root cause analysis activities when required. Mandatory Skills & Experience Strong hands-on experience as an Oracle Database Administrator in enterprise environments. Extensive expertise in Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) administration, configuration, and troubleshooting. Proven experience with Oracle Data Guard setup, monitoring, maintenance, switchover, and failover operations. Strong knowledge of Oracle Performance Tuning & Optimization, including SQL tuning, AWR, ASH, ADDM, and execution plan analysis. Advanced experience with RMAN Backup & Recovery, including backup strategy design, restoration, recovery testing, and disaster recovery planning. Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills within complex Oracle database infrastructures. Experience working in high-availability and mission-critical database environments. Good to Have Experience with Oracle GoldenGate for real-time data replication, synchronization, and migration projects. Knowledge of HashiCorp Vault for secrets management, database credential management, and security integration. Exposure to database automation, scripting, and infrastructure management tools. Experience supporting large-scale enterprise database platforms. Preferred Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Oracle certifications such as Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) or Oracle Certified Master (OCM) are desirable. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Ability to work independently and collaboratively within cross-functional teams.
18/07/2026
Full time
Role Title: Oracle DBA Start Date: 29th July 2026 End Date: 30th November 2026 Rate: up to £375 per day umbrella (inside IR35) Location: Sheffield 3 days in the office Role SummaryWe are seeking an experienced Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) to manage, maintain, and optimize mission-critical Oracle database environments. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters), Oracle Data Guard, Performance Tuning & Optimization, and RMAN (Backup & Recovery), ensuring high availability, disaster recovery readiness, optimal performance, and operational excellence across enterprise database platforms. The successful candidate will be responsible for the installation, configuration, administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and support of Oracle databases while maintaining security, reliability, and business continuity. Experience with Oracle GoldenGate and HashiCorp Vault is highly desirable and will be considered an advantage. Key Responsibilities Administer, maintain, and support Oracle database environments in production, testing, and development landscapes. Design, implement, and manage Oracle RAC configurations to ensure high availability, scalability, and failover capabilities. Configure, monitor, and support Oracle Data Guard environments, including physical and logical standby databases, switchover, and failover activities. Perform proactive database monitoring and troubleshooting to maintain system health, availability, and performance. Lead database performance tuning initiatives by analyzing SQL execution plans, optimizing queries, and identifying system bottlenecks. Monitor database resource utilisation and recommend improvements to enhance performance and efficiency. Develop and execute backup and recovery strategies using Oracle RMAN, ensuring successful database restoration and disaster recovery preparedness. Conduct backup validation, recovery testing, and regular disaster recovery exercises. Manage database patching, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management activities with minimal business disruption. Implement and maintain database security standards, user access controls, and compliance requirements. Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and support teams to ensure seamless database operations and issue resolution. Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and best practice guidelines. Provide on-call support and participate in incident management and root cause analysis activities when required. Mandatory Skills & Experience Strong hands-on experience as an Oracle Database Administrator in enterprise environments. Extensive expertise in Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) administration, configuration, and troubleshooting. Proven experience with Oracle Data Guard setup, monitoring, maintenance, switchover, and failover operations. Strong knowledge of Oracle Performance Tuning & Optimization, including SQL tuning, AWR, ASH, ADDM, and execution plan analysis. Advanced experience with RMAN Backup & Recovery, including backup strategy design, restoration, recovery testing, and disaster recovery planning. Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills within complex Oracle database infrastructures. Experience working in high-availability and mission-critical database environments. Good to Have Experience with Oracle GoldenGate for real-time data replication, synchronization, and migration projects. Knowledge of HashiCorp Vault for secrets management, database credential management, and security integration. Exposure to database automation, scripting, and infrastructure management tools. Experience supporting large-scale enterprise database platforms. Preferred Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Oracle certifications such as Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) or Oracle Certified Master (OCM) are desirable. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Ability to work independently and collaboratively within cross-functional teams.
Role: Oracle Database Administrator Location: Northwich (Hybrid) Salary: Up to £55,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits Are you an experienced Oracle Database Administrator looking for your next challenge? We're recruiting on behalf of a highly respected financial services organisation seeking a talented Oracle DBA to join its growing IT team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a business that values innovation, invests in its people and offers genuine opportunities for career development. The Role You'll play a key role in supporting and developing the organisation's Oracle database estate, ensuring business-critical systems remain secure, resilient, and high performing. Working closely with development and infrastructure teams, you'll be responsible for maintaining Oracle databases, optimising performance, and supporting ongoing technology improvements across the business. Key Responsibilities Administer and maintain Oracle database environments Monitor database health, performance, and availability Manage backups, restores, migrations and disaster recovery Support database patching, upgrades, and maintenance Troubleshoot and resolve database performance issues Maintain Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle WebLogic environments Automate routine administration tasks where possible Ensure database security, compliance, and best practice Collaborate with IT teams to deliver reliable, high-quality services About You You'll have experience in Oracle Database Administration and be confident working within enterprise environments. You'll also have: Oracle Database Administration experience (Oracle 19c or later preferred) Experience with backup and recovery, performance tuning, and database security Oracle Enterprise Manager experience Oracle WebLogic experience Linux operating systems and shell scripting knowledge Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Excellent communication skills with a collaborative approach Experience with Oracle Engineered Systems, high availability environments or infrastructure automation would be advantageous but is not essential. What's in it for You? Salary up to £55,000 Annual performance-related bonus 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with service Employee Assistance Programme Death in Service benefit Ongoing training and career development The opportunity to join a supportive team within a well-established and growing organisation Apply Today If you're an Oracle Database Administrator looking to take the next step in your career, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now or get in touch for a confidential discussion.
17/07/2026
Full time
Role: Oracle Database Administrator Location: Northwich (Hybrid) Salary: Up to £55,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits Are you an experienced Oracle Database Administrator looking for your next challenge? We're recruiting on behalf of a highly respected financial services organisation seeking a talented Oracle DBA to join its growing IT team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a business that values innovation, invests in its people and offers genuine opportunities for career development. The Role You'll play a key role in supporting and developing the organisation's Oracle database estate, ensuring business-critical systems remain secure, resilient, and high performing. Working closely with development and infrastructure teams, you'll be responsible for maintaining Oracle databases, optimising performance, and supporting ongoing technology improvements across the business. Key Responsibilities Administer and maintain Oracle database environments Monitor database health, performance, and availability Manage backups, restores, migrations and disaster recovery Support database patching, upgrades, and maintenance Troubleshoot and resolve database performance issues Maintain Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle WebLogic environments Automate routine administration tasks where possible Ensure database security, compliance, and best practice Collaborate with IT teams to deliver reliable, high-quality services About You You'll have experience in Oracle Database Administration and be confident working within enterprise environments. You'll also have: Oracle Database Administration experience (Oracle 19c or later preferred) Experience with backup and recovery, performance tuning, and database security Oracle Enterprise Manager experience Oracle WebLogic experience Linux operating systems and shell scripting knowledge Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Excellent communication skills with a collaborative approach Experience with Oracle Engineered Systems, high availability environments or infrastructure automation would be advantageous but is not essential. What's in it for You? Salary up to £55,000 Annual performance-related bonus 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with service Employee Assistance Programme Death in Service benefit Ongoing training and career development The opportunity to join a supportive team within a well-established and growing organisation Apply Today If you're an Oracle Database Administrator looking to take the next step in your career, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now or get in touch for a confidential discussion.
As a Senior Database Administrator, you'll be the steward of the data layer that powers Podfather. Working closely with our Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and CTO, you will keep our databases reliable, performant, and well-designed as the business grows. If you love solving real-world problems, collaborating with a passionate team, and making a tangible impact every day, we want to hear from you. Who is Podfather? With our team of around 60 people working remotely or at our Edinburgh head office, we believe that we can offer you something special here at Podfather. Our whole ethos is about creating a unique and rewarding experience for both our customers and our employees. When you work here, you will get involved with challenging projects within a fun and friendly environment. We are a medium-sized company, which means you get to be part of multiple projects, wear different hats, and truly see the difference your work makes. We develop and deliver industry-leading route optimisation and electronic proof of delivery (ePOD) technology to the logistics, construction, and field service sectors. We have some huge clients, and some tiny ones, and because we are growing fast, now is a great time to join our team. At Podfather, we're guided by our core values: reliable, innovative, determined, collaborative, candid, and caring. You'll see these in action every day in how we work together, solve problems, and support our customers. Where do you fit in? We recognise that impact in this role can be made in different ways, and that there are different 'shapes' of DBA. Depending on your background and interests, this role may lean more towards day-to-day operations and tuning, or more towards schema design and working alongside application developers. In this role, you will be joining our Engineering & Infrastructure team. You will focus on: Database Operations: Take ownership of the day-to-day health of our MariaDB/MySQL estate, monitoring, backups, replication, capacity, upgrades, and patching, ensuring the platform stays reliable and recoverable. Schema Design & Evolution: Design new schemas and evolve existing ones to support new product features, working with engineers to ensure changes are safe to deploy, performant at scale, and easy to maintain over time. Performance & Scaling: Identify performance hotspots, tune queries/indexes, and help the team plan for growth as we scale to hundreds of thousands of users. Driving Change & Problem Solving: Identify, understand, and resolve critical database and data-integrity issues. You'll articulate database trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike to drive high-leverage improvements. Information Security: Handle data securely throughout its lifecycle (encryption at rest/in transit), enforce the principle of least privilege, manage secure authentication, and handle patches/updates to protect the database estate. Technical Expertise We are looking for a skilled practitioner who can lead database work to successful technical outcomes by factoring in technical debt, data modelling, stability, security, and business needs. Query Optimisation: Comfortable reading and optimising SQL using execution plans, indexes, and configuration tuning. Resilience & Observability: Responsible for backup strategies, replication, and disaster recovery procedures (including regular verification). You will fill database monitoring and alerting gaps to stop issues before they become incidents. Application Layer Collaboration: Work closely with engineers writing application code (primarily PHP at Podfather) to review how the application talks to the database, ensuring migrations are a routine process rather than a risky event. Incident Management: Take a leading role in debugging complex database issues, managing incidents, and collaborating with support teams to share known workarounds. Required Skills MariaDB/MySQL experience. Some experience of growing databases to scale, to hundreds of thousands of users and beyond. Some application development experience; PHP would be preferred, but any experience working with a mature codebase would be fine. Preferred Skills AWS experience preferred, but other cloud experience would be also be helpful. Data warehousing experience. Experience of database scaling technologies such as sharding, pagination, replicas, caching, proxying Experience of wider database technologies such as NoSQL, Graph, time-series DBs Apply now! Ready to help us scale the data layer behind our expanding platform? If you are interested in joining the Podfather team, please email your CV and a cover letter explaining why you're a great fit for the role to .
17/07/2026
Full time
As a Senior Database Administrator, you'll be the steward of the data layer that powers Podfather. Working closely with our Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and CTO, you will keep our databases reliable, performant, and well-designed as the business grows. If you love solving real-world problems, collaborating with a passionate team, and making a tangible impact every day, we want to hear from you. Who is Podfather? With our team of around 60 people working remotely or at our Edinburgh head office, we believe that we can offer you something special here at Podfather. Our whole ethos is about creating a unique and rewarding experience for both our customers and our employees. When you work here, you will get involved with challenging projects within a fun and friendly environment. We are a medium-sized company, which means you get to be part of multiple projects, wear different hats, and truly see the difference your work makes. We develop and deliver industry-leading route optimisation and electronic proof of delivery (ePOD) technology to the logistics, construction, and field service sectors. We have some huge clients, and some tiny ones, and because we are growing fast, now is a great time to join our team. At Podfather, we're guided by our core values: reliable, innovative, determined, collaborative, candid, and caring. You'll see these in action every day in how we work together, solve problems, and support our customers. Where do you fit in? We recognise that impact in this role can be made in different ways, and that there are different 'shapes' of DBA. Depending on your background and interests, this role may lean more towards day-to-day operations and tuning, or more towards schema design and working alongside application developers. In this role, you will be joining our Engineering & Infrastructure team. You will focus on: Database Operations: Take ownership of the day-to-day health of our MariaDB/MySQL estate, monitoring, backups, replication, capacity, upgrades, and patching, ensuring the platform stays reliable and recoverable. Schema Design & Evolution: Design new schemas and evolve existing ones to support new product features, working with engineers to ensure changes are safe to deploy, performant at scale, and easy to maintain over time. Performance & Scaling: Identify performance hotspots, tune queries/indexes, and help the team plan for growth as we scale to hundreds of thousands of users. Driving Change & Problem Solving: Identify, understand, and resolve critical database and data-integrity issues. You'll articulate database trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike to drive high-leverage improvements. Information Security: Handle data securely throughout its lifecycle (encryption at rest/in transit), enforce the principle of least privilege, manage secure authentication, and handle patches/updates to protect the database estate. Technical Expertise We are looking for a skilled practitioner who can lead database work to successful technical outcomes by factoring in technical debt, data modelling, stability, security, and business needs. Query Optimisation: Comfortable reading and optimising SQL using execution plans, indexes, and configuration tuning. Resilience & Observability: Responsible for backup strategies, replication, and disaster recovery procedures (including regular verification). You will fill database monitoring and alerting gaps to stop issues before they become incidents. Application Layer Collaboration: Work closely with engineers writing application code (primarily PHP at Podfather) to review how the application talks to the database, ensuring migrations are a routine process rather than a risky event. Incident Management: Take a leading role in debugging complex database issues, managing incidents, and collaborating with support teams to share known workarounds. Required Skills MariaDB/MySQL experience. Some experience of growing databases to scale, to hundreds of thousands of users and beyond. Some application development experience; PHP would be preferred, but any experience working with a mature codebase would be fine. Preferred Skills AWS experience preferred, but other cloud experience would be also be helpful. Data warehousing experience. Experience of database scaling technologies such as sharding, pagination, replicas, caching, proxying Experience of wider database technologies such as NoSQL, Graph, time-series DBs Apply now! Ready to help us scale the data layer behind our expanding platform? If you are interested in joining the Podfather team, please email your CV and a cover letter explaining why you're a great fit for the role to .
Macmillan Money & More Service Administrator All districts - Torridge, North, Mid and West Devon Permanent Are you an excellent administrator and are you passionate about helping people in need? Macmillan Money & More South-West South wants to hear from you! Macmillan Money & More SWS supports people affected by cancer across a region spanning from Milton Keynes to Cornwall. Citizens Advice TNMWD leads and coordinates a team of approximately 23 advisers across 8 Citizens Advice locations to support the delivery of high-quality welfare benefits advice, financial support and holistic assistance to people affected by cancer and their families. The Service Administrator is responsible for supporting the effective day-to-day operation of the Macmillan Money & More SWS Service through the management of referrals, administration of client records and coordination of service activities. The role acts as a key point of contact for referrers, service users and colleagues, ensuring information is recorded accurately and processed in a timely manner. The postholder will support data collection and reporting requirements, undertake customer service and triage activities where required, and contribute to the continuous improvement of service delivery. The role requires excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, strong digital literacy and a commitment to delivering high-quality support to people affected by cancer. Job Specification Provide high-quality administrative and customer service to support the Macmillan Money & More SWS Service. Ensure the efficient management of referrals, client records, communications and service data. Support the external agency referral process, ensuring that all referrals received are complete and appropriately prepared for adviser management. Maintain accurate records and documentation in line with organisational and funder requirements. Support compliance with quality standards, data protection and service procedures. Contribute to service development and continuous improvement activities to enhance service delivery. Administration Receive and manage incoming referrals through all channels, including telephone, web forms, email and any other systems or innovations adopted by the service. Create and manage tasks within the Case Management System. Liaise with professional and self-referrers as necessary to ensure a smooth and effective referral and client contact process for people affected by cancer. Support with co ordinating calendars, resource planning and rota management to ensure effective service coverage. Support the processing of internal and external communications. Provide administrative support for regional service requirements, including coordinating marketing and promotional material distribution. Support the Service Manager in maintaining service workspaces and systems as required. Assist with the collection of information received from delivery partners through Microsoft Forms and other agreed systems. Support the Service Manager with case administration. Coordinate feedback activities from service users and team members. Maintain records and data in line with funder requirements and organisational procedures. Complete annual GDPR and mandatory information governance training requirements. Other Duties Carry out any other tasks that may be within the scope of the post to ensure the effective delivery and development of the service. Demonstrate commitment to the aims and policies of the Citizens Advice service. Abide by health and safety guidelines and share responsibility for own safety and that of colleagues. Comply with all Citizens Advice information assurance guidelines. Person Specification Experience of providing administrative support within a busy office, service or customer-focused environment. Experience of managing and prioritising multiple tasks while meeting deadlines. Experience of maintaining accurate records and handling confidential information. Experience of delivering excellent customer service through telephone, email and digital channels. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and Forms. Excellent organisational, communication and time management skills. Ability to communicate sensitively and professionally with people experiencing difficult circumstances. Ability to use digital systems and databases accurately and efficiently. Ability to work independently, use initiative and contribute effectively as part of a team. Willingness and ability to undertake and successfully complete assessor training. Experience within a welfare benefits, advice, health, social care, or charity environment. Experience of referral management systems or case management databases. Experience of collecting and reporting performance, service, or outcome data. Understanding of the types of problems affecting people living with cancer and their families. Benefits Loyalty based holiday entitlement 3% employer auto enrolment contribution (where applicable) Additional Christmas shutdown Starting at £15,527 Working Hours 22.2 hours per week
16/07/2026
Full time
Macmillan Money & More Service Administrator All districts - Torridge, North, Mid and West Devon Permanent Are you an excellent administrator and are you passionate about helping people in need? Macmillan Money & More South-West South wants to hear from you! Macmillan Money & More SWS supports people affected by cancer across a region spanning from Milton Keynes to Cornwall. Citizens Advice TNMWD leads and coordinates a team of approximately 23 advisers across 8 Citizens Advice locations to support the delivery of high-quality welfare benefits advice, financial support and holistic assistance to people affected by cancer and their families. The Service Administrator is responsible for supporting the effective day-to-day operation of the Macmillan Money & More SWS Service through the management of referrals, administration of client records and coordination of service activities. The role acts as a key point of contact for referrers, service users and colleagues, ensuring information is recorded accurately and processed in a timely manner. The postholder will support data collection and reporting requirements, undertake customer service and triage activities where required, and contribute to the continuous improvement of service delivery. The role requires excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, strong digital literacy and a commitment to delivering high-quality support to people affected by cancer. Job Specification Provide high-quality administrative and customer service to support the Macmillan Money & More SWS Service. Ensure the efficient management of referrals, client records, communications and service data. Support the external agency referral process, ensuring that all referrals received are complete and appropriately prepared for adviser management. Maintain accurate records and documentation in line with organisational and funder requirements. Support compliance with quality standards, data protection and service procedures. Contribute to service development and continuous improvement activities to enhance service delivery. Administration Receive and manage incoming referrals through all channels, including telephone, web forms, email and any other systems or innovations adopted by the service. Create and manage tasks within the Case Management System. Liaise with professional and self-referrers as necessary to ensure a smooth and effective referral and client contact process for people affected by cancer. Support with co ordinating calendars, resource planning and rota management to ensure effective service coverage. Support the processing of internal and external communications. Provide administrative support for regional service requirements, including coordinating marketing and promotional material distribution. Support the Service Manager in maintaining service workspaces and systems as required. Assist with the collection of information received from delivery partners through Microsoft Forms and other agreed systems. Support the Service Manager with case administration. Coordinate feedback activities from service users and team members. Maintain records and data in line with funder requirements and organisational procedures. Complete annual GDPR and mandatory information governance training requirements. Other Duties Carry out any other tasks that may be within the scope of the post to ensure the effective delivery and development of the service. Demonstrate commitment to the aims and policies of the Citizens Advice service. Abide by health and safety guidelines and share responsibility for own safety and that of colleagues. Comply with all Citizens Advice information assurance guidelines. Person Specification Experience of providing administrative support within a busy office, service or customer-focused environment. Experience of managing and prioritising multiple tasks while meeting deadlines. Experience of maintaining accurate records and handling confidential information. Experience of delivering excellent customer service through telephone, email and digital channels. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and Forms. Excellent organisational, communication and time management skills. Ability to communicate sensitively and professionally with people experiencing difficult circumstances. Ability to use digital systems and databases accurately and efficiently. Ability to work independently, use initiative and contribute effectively as part of a team. Willingness and ability to undertake and successfully complete assessor training. Experience within a welfare benefits, advice, health, social care, or charity environment. Experience of referral management systems or case management databases. Experience of collecting and reporting performance, service, or outcome data. Understanding of the types of problems affecting people living with cancer and their families. Benefits Loyalty based holiday entitlement 3% employer auto enrolment contribution (where applicable) Additional Christmas shutdown Starting at £15,527 Working Hours 22.2 hours per week
Role Title: Oracle DBA Start Date: 29th July 2026 End Date: 30th November 2026 Rate: up to 375 per day umbrella (inside IR35) Location: Sheffield 3 days in the office Role Summary We are seeking an experienced Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) to manage, maintain, and optimize mission-critical Oracle database environments. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters), Oracle Data Guard, Performance Tuning & Optimization, and RMAN (Backup & Recovery) , ensuring high availability, disaster recovery readiness, optimal performance, and operational excellence across enterprise database platforms. The successful candidate will be responsible for the installation, configuration, administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and support of Oracle databases while maintaining security, reliability, and business continuity. Experience with Oracle GoldenGate and HashiCorp Vault is highly desirable and will be considered an advantage. Key Responsibilities Administer, maintain, and support Oracle database environments in production, testing, and development landscapes. Design, implement, and manage Oracle RAC configurations to ensure high availability, scalability, and failover capabilities. Configure, monitor, and support Oracle Data Guard environments, including physical and logical standby databases, switchover, and failover activities. Perform proactive database monitoring and troubleshooting to maintain system health, availability, and performance. Lead database performance tuning initiatives by analyzing SQL execution plans, optimizing queries, and identifying system bottlenecks. Monitor database resource utilization and recommend improvements to enhance performance and efficiency. Develop and execute backup and recovery strategies using Oracle RMAN , ensuring successful database restoration and disaster recovery preparedness. Conduct backup validation, recovery testing, and regular disaster recovery exercises. Manage database patching, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management activities with minimal business disruption. Implement and maintain database security standards, user access controls, and compliance requirements. Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and support teams to ensure seamless database operations and issue resolution. Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and best practice guidelines. Provide on-call support and participate in incident management and root cause analysis activities when required. Mandatory Skills & Experience Strong hands-on experience as an Oracle Database Administrator in enterprise environments. Extensive expertise in Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) administration, configuration, and troubleshooting. Proven experience with Oracle Data Guard setup, monitoring, maintenance, switchover, and failover operations. Strong knowledge of Oracle Performance Tuning & Optimization , including SQL tuning, AWR, ASH, ADDM, and execution plan analysis. Advanced experience with RMAN Backup & Recovery , including backup strategy design, restoration, recovery testing, and disaster recovery planning. Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills within complex Oracle database infrastructures. Experience working in high-availability and mission-critical database environments. Good to Have Experience with Oracle GoldenGate for real-time data replication, synchronization, and migration projects. Knowledge of HashiCorp Vault for secrets management, database credential management, and security integration. Exposure to database automation, scripting, and infrastructure management tools. Experience supporting large-scale enterprise database platforms. Preferred Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Oracle certifications such as Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) or Oracle Certified Master (OCM) are desirable. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Ability to work independently and collaboratively within cross-functional teams If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.
16/07/2026
Contractor
Role Title: Oracle DBA Start Date: 29th July 2026 End Date: 30th November 2026 Rate: up to 375 per day umbrella (inside IR35) Location: Sheffield 3 days in the office Role Summary We are seeking an experienced Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) to manage, maintain, and optimize mission-critical Oracle database environments. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters), Oracle Data Guard, Performance Tuning & Optimization, and RMAN (Backup & Recovery) , ensuring high availability, disaster recovery readiness, optimal performance, and operational excellence across enterprise database platforms. The successful candidate will be responsible for the installation, configuration, administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and support of Oracle databases while maintaining security, reliability, and business continuity. Experience with Oracle GoldenGate and HashiCorp Vault is highly desirable and will be considered an advantage. Key Responsibilities Administer, maintain, and support Oracle database environments in production, testing, and development landscapes. Design, implement, and manage Oracle RAC configurations to ensure high availability, scalability, and failover capabilities. Configure, monitor, and support Oracle Data Guard environments, including physical and logical standby databases, switchover, and failover activities. Perform proactive database monitoring and troubleshooting to maintain system health, availability, and performance. Lead database performance tuning initiatives by analyzing SQL execution plans, optimizing queries, and identifying system bottlenecks. Monitor database resource utilization and recommend improvements to enhance performance and efficiency. Develop and execute backup and recovery strategies using Oracle RMAN , ensuring successful database restoration and disaster recovery preparedness. Conduct backup validation, recovery testing, and regular disaster recovery exercises. Manage database patching, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management activities with minimal business disruption. Implement and maintain database security standards, user access controls, and compliance requirements. Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and support teams to ensure seamless database operations and issue resolution. Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and best practice guidelines. Provide on-call support and participate in incident management and root cause analysis activities when required. Mandatory Skills & Experience Strong hands-on experience as an Oracle Database Administrator in enterprise environments. Extensive expertise in Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) administration, configuration, and troubleshooting. Proven experience with Oracle Data Guard setup, monitoring, maintenance, switchover, and failover operations. Strong knowledge of Oracle Performance Tuning & Optimization , including SQL tuning, AWR, ASH, ADDM, and execution plan analysis. Advanced experience with RMAN Backup & Recovery , including backup strategy design, restoration, recovery testing, and disaster recovery planning. Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills within complex Oracle database infrastructures. Experience working in high-availability and mission-critical database environments. Good to Have Experience with Oracle GoldenGate for real-time data replication, synchronization, and migration projects. Knowledge of HashiCorp Vault for secrets management, database credential management, and security integration. Exposure to database automation, scripting, and infrastructure management tools. Experience supporting large-scale enterprise database platforms. Preferred Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Oracle certifications such as Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) or Oracle Certified Master (OCM) are desirable. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Ability to work independently and collaboratively within cross-functional teams If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.
We are looking for a skilled and proactive Database Administrator (DBA) to join our IT team. This is a hands on role responsible for the performance, integrity, security, and availability of mission critical databases across our predominantly Microsoft SQL Server estate. You will play a key role in supporting real time operational systems, ensuring our database platforms remain resilient, scalable, and optimised to meet business demands. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a high availability environment and enjoys solving complex performance challenges. Key Responsibilities Database Development & Management Write, optimise, and maintain SQL code supporting operational systems Develop and enhance stored procedures, views, functions, and advanced queries (CTEs, window functions) Ensure data integrity, consistency, and quality across systems Performance & Optimisation Monitor and improve database performance in live environments Diagnose and resolve bottlenecks using execution plans and query analysis Optimise indexing strategies and statistics Manage transactions, locking, blocking, and deadlocks Conduct real time troubleshooting for critical system issues Use tools such as SQL Profiler and Extended Events for diagnostics Investigate production incidents and conduct root cause analysis Work closely with developers and analysts to improve data access patterns Security & Compliance Manage database users, roles, and permissions Ensure adherence to security best practices and data protection standards Maintenance, Automation & Resilience Create and manage SQL Server Agent jobs Automate backups and routine database maintenance Manage backup, restore, and disaster recovery processes Support capacity planning and scalability improvements Perform server administration including installation, patching, and upgrades Business Intelligence Support Support SQL Server BI tools including SSAS (cubes) and SSRS (reporting) What You'll Bring Strong hands on SQL Server DBA experience in a production environment Advanced SQL expertise including: Complex queries, stored procedures, CTEs, window functions Schema design, indexing strategies, and triggers Deep understanding of: Query performance tuning and execution plans Locking, blocking, and deadlocks Experience with monitoring and diagnostic tools (Profiler, Extended Events, DMVs) Knowledge of SQL Server Agent and automation Experience supporting SSAS and SSRS Strong understanding of database security and access control Proven experience managing backups, restores, and maintenance plans High Availability & Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) and business continuity planning Exposure to MySQL and cloud database platforms (AWS RDS, Azure SQL) Experience with data warehousing and ETL processes Background in BI, reporting, and dashboarding (e.g. Power BI) Awareness of modern analytics and AI enabled BI tools (e.g. Microsoft Copilot) Experience with database monitoring tools Why Join The APC? Be part of a nationally recognised logistics network at the heart of UK parcel delivery Work in a fast paced, data driven environment where your impact is visible Opportunity to drive performance improvements and innovation Collaborate with a skilled and supportive technology team
14/07/2026
Full time
We are looking for a skilled and proactive Database Administrator (DBA) to join our IT team. This is a hands on role responsible for the performance, integrity, security, and availability of mission critical databases across our predominantly Microsoft SQL Server estate. You will play a key role in supporting real time operational systems, ensuring our database platforms remain resilient, scalable, and optimised to meet business demands. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a high availability environment and enjoys solving complex performance challenges. Key Responsibilities Database Development & Management Write, optimise, and maintain SQL code supporting operational systems Develop and enhance stored procedures, views, functions, and advanced queries (CTEs, window functions) Ensure data integrity, consistency, and quality across systems Performance & Optimisation Monitor and improve database performance in live environments Diagnose and resolve bottlenecks using execution plans and query analysis Optimise indexing strategies and statistics Manage transactions, locking, blocking, and deadlocks Conduct real time troubleshooting for critical system issues Use tools such as SQL Profiler and Extended Events for diagnostics Investigate production incidents and conduct root cause analysis Work closely with developers and analysts to improve data access patterns Security & Compliance Manage database users, roles, and permissions Ensure adherence to security best practices and data protection standards Maintenance, Automation & Resilience Create and manage SQL Server Agent jobs Automate backups and routine database maintenance Manage backup, restore, and disaster recovery processes Support capacity planning and scalability improvements Perform server administration including installation, patching, and upgrades Business Intelligence Support Support SQL Server BI tools including SSAS (cubes) and SSRS (reporting) What You'll Bring Strong hands on SQL Server DBA experience in a production environment Advanced SQL expertise including: Complex queries, stored procedures, CTEs, window functions Schema design, indexing strategies, and triggers Deep understanding of: Query performance tuning and execution plans Locking, blocking, and deadlocks Experience with monitoring and diagnostic tools (Profiler, Extended Events, DMVs) Knowledge of SQL Server Agent and automation Experience supporting SSAS and SSRS Strong understanding of database security and access control Proven experience managing backups, restores, and maintenance plans High Availability & Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) and business continuity planning Exposure to MySQL and cloud database platforms (AWS RDS, Azure SQL) Experience with data warehousing and ETL processes Background in BI, reporting, and dashboarding (e.g. Power BI) Awareness of modern analytics and AI enabled BI tools (e.g. Microsoft Copilot) Experience with database monitoring tools Why Join The APC? Be part of a nationally recognised logistics network at the heart of UK parcel delivery Work in a fast paced, data driven environment where your impact is visible Opportunity to drive performance improvements and innovation Collaborate with a skilled and supportive technology team
Global bank based in Canary Wharf. Role - C# Developer - Desktop Applications Duration - 6 months with likely extension Rate - 416 p/d (inside IR35) Location - Hybrid / Canary Wharf Tech Stack C# WPF Winforms Javascript SQL Oracle Tasks Tasks range from understanding business requirements, designing application structures, business data analysis, programming WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) applications in Visual C#.NET on both Oracle and SQL Server database, testing with users, implementation through Development, Quality Assurance (QA), Production and Disaster Recovery environments. Supporting users and writing operation documents including User Helps (manuals) will also be required. As well as application development, this role will also include all aspects of system constructions and support for existing programmes which are written as WinForms (C#.NET) applications. Also, applications written in other languages like MS VBA for Excel and Access, MS VB and MS Excel Macros will also be required. Additional Tasks Defining Database objects required in systems to connect with SQL and Oracle Database Administrators in both London and New York. Providing script for database inquiry languages, i.e., T-SQL (SQL Server) and PL/SQL (Oracle) to perform data analysis based on requirements from business parties. Setting up a system distribution method to Citrix and application servers for both Web and Window applications. Troubleshooting systems in an event of failure and implementing necessary solutions by checking Windows Operating System, Internet Information Server and any other relevant environments where the applications are running. In some case this role will act to liaise with other application support team staff. Following the existing team programming policy to keep a common development style to be shared in team members. Updating versions of MS .Net Framework and MS Visual .NET platform to include any necessary changes of existing systems running in Production. Liaising with the relevant support teams such as other Development sections, Technical Support, Network and Infrastructure and DBA where Business users experience system problems. Assessing the impact of data processing loads on SQL and Oracle database and, when appropriate, finding alternative approaches. Rolling out changes with a coordination of Release manager. It is important to maintain the change history of applications GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
14/07/2026
Contractor
Global bank based in Canary Wharf. Role - C# Developer - Desktop Applications Duration - 6 months with likely extension Rate - 416 p/d (inside IR35) Location - Hybrid / Canary Wharf Tech Stack C# WPF Winforms Javascript SQL Oracle Tasks Tasks range from understanding business requirements, designing application structures, business data analysis, programming WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) applications in Visual C#.NET on both Oracle and SQL Server database, testing with users, implementation through Development, Quality Assurance (QA), Production and Disaster Recovery environments. Supporting users and writing operation documents including User Helps (manuals) will also be required. As well as application development, this role will also include all aspects of system constructions and support for existing programmes which are written as WinForms (C#.NET) applications. Also, applications written in other languages like MS VBA for Excel and Access, MS VB and MS Excel Macros will also be required. Additional Tasks Defining Database objects required in systems to connect with SQL and Oracle Database Administrators in both London and New York. Providing script for database inquiry languages, i.e., T-SQL (SQL Server) and PL/SQL (Oracle) to perform data analysis based on requirements from business parties. Setting up a system distribution method to Citrix and application servers for both Web and Window applications. Troubleshooting systems in an event of failure and implementing necessary solutions by checking Windows Operating System, Internet Information Server and any other relevant environments where the applications are running. In some case this role will act to liaise with other application support team staff. Following the existing team programming policy to keep a common development style to be shared in team members. Updating versions of MS .Net Framework and MS Visual .NET platform to include any necessary changes of existing systems running in Production. Liaising with the relevant support teams such as other Development sections, Technical Support, Network and Infrastructure and DBA where Business users experience system problems. Assessing the impact of data processing loads on SQL and Oracle database and, when appropriate, finding alternative approaches. Rolling out changes with a coordination of Release manager. It is important to maintain the change history of applications GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Grade/Salary: £45,000-£65,000 per year Location: Hybrid - on-site typically 2-6 days a month Contract type: Permanent Travel: Occasional requirement to attend client sites typically in Milton Keynes and London Hours: 37 hours Reporting to: Ant Wynne The Role Owing to our continued growth and trusted reputation, we are seeking a skilled and proactive Power Platform Developer to join our Data Science team. This position is ideal for someone with a strong analytical mind and a strong sense of responsibility, essential for managing complex projects and meeting deadlines and budgets effectively. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering client-facing roles primarily to support clients evolving from legacy tools to modern cloud-based information management solutions. You will be a primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders providing core expertise in Data structures, Microsoft Power Platform and other Client database migration expertise. You will play a crucial role in our ongoing quest to streamline customer operations, enhance productivity and integrate data seamlessly, developing innovative solutions to enable us to provide customers with powerful data insights. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders, both internal and external, to understand user needs, operational challenges, gather requirements and provide tailored technical solutions. Public sector projects make a real impact on people's lives. SVGC support the public sector to make great decisions. This role is ideally suited to someone who wants to proactively contribute to the success of the UK Public Sector. Key Project Overview SVGC provides Digital Archive and Records Management (DRAM) services in support of client Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) functions. Already delivering solutions to a range of Government departments, all major and minor government departments have needs to transition and modernise. The SVGC DRAM includes unique and leading-edge technology including proven AI solutions and many in development. The role needs to be responsive and flexible. SVGC's solutions have been heralded across government as "the only game in town" when it comes to the needs of effective digital data records management. Responsibilities Your main responsibilities will be to Application Development and Customisation Define, design, implement and support applications tailored to customers specific business needs. Develop and deploy Power Platform solutions. Develop and implement user testing routines and review feedback from stakeholders to resolve issues and ensure solutions meet customer requirements. Track development of projects using industry standard platforms. Business Process Automation Utilise Power Automate to streamline workflows, reduce manual intervention, human error and thus improve efficiency - including data management, approval processes, notifications and document management. Data Integration and Management Integrate Microsoft Dataverse, SQL Server, SharePoint and third-party APIs to ensure a seamless data flow between systems. Assist with the integration of internal and external IT systems. Power BI Dashboard and Report Development Build interactive and visually appealing dashboards and reports in Power BI, facilitating the ability to monitor performance and identify trends. Prepare technical documentation, including user guides and process documentation. Security and Compliance Ensure Power Platform solutions align with company, customer and industry regulations. Guarantee applications are built with proper security protocols, including role-based access control (RBAC) and data encryption. Project Collaboration and Support Work cross-functionally, coordinating with business analysts, designers and IT administrators to deliver successful solutions. Provide ongoing support to resolve issues and optimise applications as business needs evolve. Design and deliver training and support to end-users. The Person Currently hold Security Checked (SC) Or ability to become SC cleared. Have a blend of technical expertise and problem-solving ability. Have the ability to understand business processing including automation workflows, system integration and process mapping. Have knowledge of security and compliance requirements including data governance, role-based access and cyber security best practices Have a strong analytical mindset with the ability to identify and translate business requirements into technical solutions. Have proven experience in Power Platform expertise including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and Power Virtual Agents. Have experience in Programming including, SQL, DAX, Power Query (M), Excel macros and Python. Have experience in designing Data Structures, Database Management including Microsoft Dataverse, SQL Server, SharePoint and Common Data Model. Have familiarity with project management methodologies including Agile and Waterfall. Have strong interpersonal skills so as to communicate confidently and competently technical information to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Have experience in producing high quality, thorough documentation. Have a genuine enthusiasm for the IT and Software Ecosystem and a keen interest in your continuing professional development in relation to best practices within the Microsoft Power Platform. Hold a degree in a mathematical based subject or other relevant qualifications or vocational experience. Hold a relevant and current Microsoft Certification or a willingness to undertake and achieve certification. Has experience of turning business processes into an efficient technical solution within the Microsoft ecosystem. Can understand the complexity and functions of a legacy IT system and re implement it using modern solutions. Have experience of tools for development support e.g. Confluence, JIRA, and Git. Ability to extend SC clearance to Developed Vetting (DV). Seeing the Big Picture Be alert to emerging issues and trends which might impact or benefit own and work Develop an understanding of own area's strategy and how this contributes to Company priorities Ensure own area/team activities are aligned to Company priorities Actively seek out and share experience to develop understanding and knowledge of own work and of team's business area Seek to understand how the services, activities and strategies in the area work together to create value for the customer/end user Changing and Improving Find ways to improve systems and structures to deliver with more streamlined resources Regularly review procedures or systems with teams to identify improvements and simplify processes and decision making Be prepared to take managed risks, ensuring these are planned and their impact assessed Actively encourage ideas from a wide range of sources and stakeholders and use these to inform own thinking Be willing to meet the challenges of difficult or complex changes, encouraging and supporting others to do the same Prepare for and respond appropriately to the range of possible effects that change may have on own role/team Making Effective Decisions Make decisions when they are needed, even if they prove difficult or unpopular Identify a broad range of relevant and credible information sources and recognise the need to collect new data when necessary, from internal and external sources Recognize patterns and trends in a wide range of evidence/ data and draw key conclusions, outlining costs, benefits, risks and potential responses Ensure all government and public data and information is treated with care in accordance with security procedures and protocols Recognise scope of own authority for decision making and empower team members to make decisions Invite challenge and where appropriate involve others in decision making to help build engagement and present robust recommendations Leading and Communicating Continually communicate with staff, helping to clarify goals and activities and the links between these and Company strategy Recognise, respect and reward the contribution and achievements of others, valuing difference Communicate in a straightforward, honest and engaging manner with all stakeholders and stand ground when needed Communicate using appropriate styles, methods and timing, including digital channels, to maximise understanding and impact Promote the work of the Company and play an active part in supporting the SVGC Team values and culture Role model enthusiasm and energy about their work and encourage others to do the same Collaborating and Partnering Establish relationships with a range of stakeholders to support delivery of business outcomes Act as a team player, investing time to generate a common focus and genuine team spirit Actively seek input from a diverse range of people Readily share resources to support higher priority work, showing pragmatism and support for the shared goals of the organization Deal with conflict in a prompt, calm and constructive manner Encourage collaborative team working within own team and across the Company Building Capability for All . click apply for full job details
13/07/2026
Full time
Grade/Salary: £45,000-£65,000 per year Location: Hybrid - on-site typically 2-6 days a month Contract type: Permanent Travel: Occasional requirement to attend client sites typically in Milton Keynes and London Hours: 37 hours Reporting to: Ant Wynne The Role Owing to our continued growth and trusted reputation, we are seeking a skilled and proactive Power Platform Developer to join our Data Science team. This position is ideal for someone with a strong analytical mind and a strong sense of responsibility, essential for managing complex projects and meeting deadlines and budgets effectively. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering client-facing roles primarily to support clients evolving from legacy tools to modern cloud-based information management solutions. You will be a primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders providing core expertise in Data structures, Microsoft Power Platform and other Client database migration expertise. You will play a crucial role in our ongoing quest to streamline customer operations, enhance productivity and integrate data seamlessly, developing innovative solutions to enable us to provide customers with powerful data insights. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders, both internal and external, to understand user needs, operational challenges, gather requirements and provide tailored technical solutions. Public sector projects make a real impact on people's lives. SVGC support the public sector to make great decisions. This role is ideally suited to someone who wants to proactively contribute to the success of the UK Public Sector. Key Project Overview SVGC provides Digital Archive and Records Management (DRAM) services in support of client Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) functions. Already delivering solutions to a range of Government departments, all major and minor government departments have needs to transition and modernise. The SVGC DRAM includes unique and leading-edge technology including proven AI solutions and many in development. The role needs to be responsive and flexible. SVGC's solutions have been heralded across government as "the only game in town" when it comes to the needs of effective digital data records management. Responsibilities Your main responsibilities will be to Application Development and Customisation Define, design, implement and support applications tailored to customers specific business needs. Develop and deploy Power Platform solutions. Develop and implement user testing routines and review feedback from stakeholders to resolve issues and ensure solutions meet customer requirements. Track development of projects using industry standard platforms. Business Process Automation Utilise Power Automate to streamline workflows, reduce manual intervention, human error and thus improve efficiency - including data management, approval processes, notifications and document management. Data Integration and Management Integrate Microsoft Dataverse, SQL Server, SharePoint and third-party APIs to ensure a seamless data flow between systems. Assist with the integration of internal and external IT systems. Power BI Dashboard and Report Development Build interactive and visually appealing dashboards and reports in Power BI, facilitating the ability to monitor performance and identify trends. Prepare technical documentation, including user guides and process documentation. Security and Compliance Ensure Power Platform solutions align with company, customer and industry regulations. Guarantee applications are built with proper security protocols, including role-based access control (RBAC) and data encryption. Project Collaboration and Support Work cross-functionally, coordinating with business analysts, designers and IT administrators to deliver successful solutions. Provide ongoing support to resolve issues and optimise applications as business needs evolve. Design and deliver training and support to end-users. The Person Currently hold Security Checked (SC) Or ability to become SC cleared. Have a blend of technical expertise and problem-solving ability. Have the ability to understand business processing including automation workflows, system integration and process mapping. Have knowledge of security and compliance requirements including data governance, role-based access and cyber security best practices Have a strong analytical mindset with the ability to identify and translate business requirements into technical solutions. Have proven experience in Power Platform expertise including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and Power Virtual Agents. Have experience in Programming including, SQL, DAX, Power Query (M), Excel macros and Python. Have experience in designing Data Structures, Database Management including Microsoft Dataverse, SQL Server, SharePoint and Common Data Model. Have familiarity with project management methodologies including Agile and Waterfall. Have strong interpersonal skills so as to communicate confidently and competently technical information to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Have experience in producing high quality, thorough documentation. Have a genuine enthusiasm for the IT and Software Ecosystem and a keen interest in your continuing professional development in relation to best practices within the Microsoft Power Platform. Hold a degree in a mathematical based subject or other relevant qualifications or vocational experience. Hold a relevant and current Microsoft Certification or a willingness to undertake and achieve certification. Has experience of turning business processes into an efficient technical solution within the Microsoft ecosystem. Can understand the complexity and functions of a legacy IT system and re implement it using modern solutions. Have experience of tools for development support e.g. Confluence, JIRA, and Git. Ability to extend SC clearance to Developed Vetting (DV). Seeing the Big Picture Be alert to emerging issues and trends which might impact or benefit own and work Develop an understanding of own area's strategy and how this contributes to Company priorities Ensure own area/team activities are aligned to Company priorities Actively seek out and share experience to develop understanding and knowledge of own work and of team's business area Seek to understand how the services, activities and strategies in the area work together to create value for the customer/end user Changing and Improving Find ways to improve systems and structures to deliver with more streamlined resources Regularly review procedures or systems with teams to identify improvements and simplify processes and decision making Be prepared to take managed risks, ensuring these are planned and their impact assessed Actively encourage ideas from a wide range of sources and stakeholders and use these to inform own thinking Be willing to meet the challenges of difficult or complex changes, encouraging and supporting others to do the same Prepare for and respond appropriately to the range of possible effects that change may have on own role/team Making Effective Decisions Make decisions when they are needed, even if they prove difficult or unpopular Identify a broad range of relevant and credible information sources and recognise the need to collect new data when necessary, from internal and external sources Recognize patterns and trends in a wide range of evidence/ data and draw key conclusions, outlining costs, benefits, risks and potential responses Ensure all government and public data and information is treated with care in accordance with security procedures and protocols Recognise scope of own authority for decision making and empower team members to make decisions Invite challenge and where appropriate involve others in decision making to help build engagement and present robust recommendations Leading and Communicating Continually communicate with staff, helping to clarify goals and activities and the links between these and Company strategy Recognise, respect and reward the contribution and achievements of others, valuing difference Communicate in a straightforward, honest and engaging manner with all stakeholders and stand ground when needed Communicate using appropriate styles, methods and timing, including digital channels, to maximise understanding and impact Promote the work of the Company and play an active part in supporting the SVGC Team values and culture Role model enthusiasm and energy about their work and encourage others to do the same Collaborating and Partnering Establish relationships with a range of stakeholders to support delivery of business outcomes Act as a team player, investing time to generate a common focus and genuine team spirit Actively seek input from a diverse range of people Readily share resources to support higher priority work, showing pragmatism and support for the shared goals of the organization Deal with conflict in a prompt, calm and constructive manner Encourage collaborative team working within own team and across the Company Building Capability for All . click apply for full job details
SQL Database Administrator (SQL DBA) Location: Wigan (2 days per week on-site) Salary: Up to £50,000 Benefits: Hybrid working Excellent pension Professional development Holiday allowance Career progression Our client, a leading organisation, is looking to recruit an experienced SQL Database Administrator (SQL DBA) to join its Infrastructure team. This is an excellent opportunity for a DBA who enjoys owning SQL Server environments, ensuring critical databases remain secure, available and performing at their best. You'll play a key role in maintaining and improving the organisation's Microsoft SQL estate while supporting wider infrastructure and platform initiatives. What you'll do Administer, maintain and optimise Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL environments. Manage database backups, restores and disaster recovery processes, ensuring data integrity and business continuity. Monitor and tune database performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements. Develop and maintain database maintenance plans covering indexing, statistics, integrity checks and housekeeping. Ensure high availability and resilience across production database environments. Support database security through access management, permissions and least-privilege principles. Work closely with infrastructure and software engineering teams to support application deployments and database changes. Assist with Windows Server administration, patching and platform maintenance where required. Investigate database incidents, perform root cause analysis and implement preventative improvements. Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures and recovery processes. Participate in an out-of-hours support rota for critical incidents. What we're looking for Commercial experience as a SQL Database Administrator or SQL Server DBA. Strong administration experience across Microsoft SQL Server. Experience with Azure SQL Database or Azure-based SQL environments. Knowledge of backup, recovery, high availability and disaster recovery solutions. Experience with SQL performance tuning, optimisation and troubleshooting. Understanding of SQL Server security, permissions and database governance. Experience supporting production environments and following change control processes. PowerShell scripting or SQL automation experience would be advantageous. Excellent problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to continuous improvement. Desirable experience includes: Always On Availability Groups, replication or failover technologies. Exposure to PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle. Azure infrastructure and cloud services. Infrastructure monitoring and alerting tools. Cyber security best practices and vulnerability management. Why join? Salary of up to £50,000 Hybrid working with just 2 days per week on-site in Wigan Work across business-critical SQL Server and Azure SQL platforms. Opportunity to influence database performance, resilience and future improvements. Supportive team with excellent opportunities for learning and career development. If you're a SQL DBA looking for a role where you'll have real ownership of critical database environments while working with modern Microsoft technologies, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today to find out more.
11/07/2026
Full time
SQL Database Administrator (SQL DBA) Location: Wigan (2 days per week on-site) Salary: Up to £50,000 Benefits: Hybrid working Excellent pension Professional development Holiday allowance Career progression Our client, a leading organisation, is looking to recruit an experienced SQL Database Administrator (SQL DBA) to join its Infrastructure team. This is an excellent opportunity for a DBA who enjoys owning SQL Server environments, ensuring critical databases remain secure, available and performing at their best. You'll play a key role in maintaining and improving the organisation's Microsoft SQL estate while supporting wider infrastructure and platform initiatives. What you'll do Administer, maintain and optimise Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL environments. Manage database backups, restores and disaster recovery processes, ensuring data integrity and business continuity. Monitor and tune database performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements. Develop and maintain database maintenance plans covering indexing, statistics, integrity checks and housekeeping. Ensure high availability and resilience across production database environments. Support database security through access management, permissions and least-privilege principles. Work closely with infrastructure and software engineering teams to support application deployments and database changes. Assist with Windows Server administration, patching and platform maintenance where required. Investigate database incidents, perform root cause analysis and implement preventative improvements. Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures and recovery processes. Participate in an out-of-hours support rota for critical incidents. What we're looking for Commercial experience as a SQL Database Administrator or SQL Server DBA. Strong administration experience across Microsoft SQL Server. Experience with Azure SQL Database or Azure-based SQL environments. Knowledge of backup, recovery, high availability and disaster recovery solutions. Experience with SQL performance tuning, optimisation and troubleshooting. Understanding of SQL Server security, permissions and database governance. Experience supporting production environments and following change control processes. PowerShell scripting or SQL automation experience would be advantageous. Excellent problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to continuous improvement. Desirable experience includes: Always On Availability Groups, replication or failover technologies. Exposure to PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle. Azure infrastructure and cloud services. Infrastructure monitoring and alerting tools. Cyber security best practices and vulnerability management. Why join? Salary of up to £50,000 Hybrid working with just 2 days per week on-site in Wigan Work across business-critical SQL Server and Azure SQL platforms. Opportunity to influence database performance, resilience and future improvements. Supportive team with excellent opportunities for learning and career development. If you're a SQL DBA looking for a role where you'll have real ownership of critical database environments while working with modern Microsoft technologies, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today to find out more.
Furness Building Society
Barrow-in-furness, Cumbria
Furness Building Society is seeking a Junior Oracle Database Administrator to join our IT & Data Team in Barrow-in-Furness. You will maintain the production Oracle database, manage DR/backups, and work with Cyber Security to protect data in transit and at rest. The role requires a customer-focused IT background and knowledge of Oracle, Linux/Unix, and MS SQL. We offer a competitive salary plus benefits, a focus on professional development, and an empowering culture.
10/07/2026
Full time
Furness Building Society is seeking a Junior Oracle Database Administrator to join our IT & Data Team in Barrow-in-Furness. You will maintain the production Oracle database, manage DR/backups, and work with Cyber Security to protect data in transit and at rest. The role requires a customer-focused IT background and knowledge of Oracle, Linux/Unix, and MS SQL. We offer a competitive salary plus benefits, a focus on professional development, and an empowering culture.
Furness Building Society
Barrow-in-furness, Cumbria
Junior Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) Junior Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) Full time - 35 Hours Competitive Salary + Benefits An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, innovative, and confident individual to join our IT & Data Team. We are driven by our values, putting the community first in everything we do. We expect our colleagues' values to align with ours, trusting them to be genuine and responsible. In return we offer competitive remuneration packages, and an empowering culture supported by continuous professional development and training. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and will consider all applicants. In this role you will: Administration and maintenance of the Production Oracle Database and its environment so that it is performant and accessible. Administration and maintenance of DR and secure backups of the Database environment. Working with Cyber Security officer, ensure the security of all data at rest and in transit. Liaise with Third Party and Oracle Support to resolve issues affecting the Unix and Oracle Estate. Administration and maintenance of the Society's Solaris Servers and Linux VMs. Provide suitable testing environments to the Business when requested. Monitor systems and build weekly reports on Storage, Performance and Security where applicable. Ensure all relevant documentation is maintained and updated under change control. Act as 2nd Line Support escalation point for any Oracle and Solaris software or hardware issues. Assist the Data Team with their Technical Requests and requirements, allocating Oracle and Solaris Hardware and Software where needed so that they are able to support the business in their day-to-day MI tasks. What you will bring: Minimum of five GCSEs (or equivalent), including Maths and English at grade C/4 or above. Previous experience of working in a customer service role, preferably within an IT environment. Good experience/understanding of Oracle, Linux and Unix platforms Understanding of general networking. Knowledge/understanding of MS SQL Strong attention to detail, high standard of accuracy. Basic awareness of Microsoft Cloud technologies such as Azure (desirable) What you can expect from us: Competitive pension with up to 10% employer contribution.
10/07/2026
Full time
Junior Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) Junior Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) Full time - 35 Hours Competitive Salary + Benefits An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, innovative, and confident individual to join our IT & Data Team. We are driven by our values, putting the community first in everything we do. We expect our colleagues' values to align with ours, trusting them to be genuine and responsible. In return we offer competitive remuneration packages, and an empowering culture supported by continuous professional development and training. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and will consider all applicants. In this role you will: Administration and maintenance of the Production Oracle Database and its environment so that it is performant and accessible. Administration and maintenance of DR and secure backups of the Database environment. Working with Cyber Security officer, ensure the security of all data at rest and in transit. Liaise with Third Party and Oracle Support to resolve issues affecting the Unix and Oracle Estate. Administration and maintenance of the Society's Solaris Servers and Linux VMs. Provide suitable testing environments to the Business when requested. Monitor systems and build weekly reports on Storage, Performance and Security where applicable. Ensure all relevant documentation is maintained and updated under change control. Act as 2nd Line Support escalation point for any Oracle and Solaris software or hardware issues. Assist the Data Team with their Technical Requests and requirements, allocating Oracle and Solaris Hardware and Software where needed so that they are able to support the business in their day-to-day MI tasks. What you will bring: Minimum of five GCSEs (or equivalent), including Maths and English at grade C/4 or above. Previous experience of working in a customer service role, preferably within an IT environment. Good experience/understanding of Oracle, Linux and Unix platforms Understanding of general networking. Knowledge/understanding of MS SQL Strong attention to detail, high standard of accuracy. Basic awareness of Microsoft Cloud technologies such as Azure (desirable) What you can expect from us: Competitive pension with up to 10% employer contribution.
Role Overview At DXC, one of our platinum accounts has openings for client-based working Database Administrators at varying skill levels. The successful candidate will work within one of our database support teams and will be focused and motivated with good interpersonal skills. Your role will include optimising and tuning database performance and assisting in database migration. Responsibilities Installing and configuring database binaries Writing and maintaining scripts to automate DBA tasks Investigating and implementing automation of operational processes using tools such as Ansible, PowerShell, Bash, and Git-based workflows Performing routine, periodic, and proactive operational monitoring and maintenance Troubleshooting database-related issues and driving root cause analysis Optimising and tuning database performance to ensure reliability and efficiency Performing patching and upgrades to ensure data security and compliance Assisting with database migrations, including migrations to cloud-based environments such as AWS Supporting database resilience through backup, recovery, replication, clustering, failover, and disaster recovery activities Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives and the modernisation of database services Qualifications A genuine passion for technology and a strong desire to continuously develop your technical skills Willingness to both share your knowledge and learn from others A proactive approach towards identifying risks, opportunities, and potential improvements An ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team environment A willingness to investigate challenges and develop innovative solutions Good organisational, analytical, and problem solving skills An interest in automation, scripting, and modern infrastructure practices A growth mindset with the ambition to broaden your technical capabilities across databases, cloud technologies, and automation tooling Desirable Skills and Technologies Database Technologies Administration experience in one or more database technologies such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL Server Knowledge of database server clustering, failover, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions Experience with database replication technologies such as Oracle Data Guard, PostgreSQL Replication Manager, and MongoDB Replica Sets Experience in backup and recovery procedures Operating Systems & Cloud Experience supporting Linux operating systems (RHEL) and/or Windows Server Experience working with cloud technologies, particularly AWS Knowledge of AWS database services and database deployments in cloud environments Experience planning or delivering database migrations into cloud environments would be highly advantageous Automation & Scripting Experience with scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, and Bash Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible Familiarity with source control and collaborative development practices using Git Experience identifying opportunities to automate operational and administrative tasks Monitoring & Tooling Knowledge of database monitoring tools such as Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Nagios, or equivalent monitoring platforms
10/07/2026
Full time
Role Overview At DXC, one of our platinum accounts has openings for client-based working Database Administrators at varying skill levels. The successful candidate will work within one of our database support teams and will be focused and motivated with good interpersonal skills. Your role will include optimising and tuning database performance and assisting in database migration. Responsibilities Installing and configuring database binaries Writing and maintaining scripts to automate DBA tasks Investigating and implementing automation of operational processes using tools such as Ansible, PowerShell, Bash, and Git-based workflows Performing routine, periodic, and proactive operational monitoring and maintenance Troubleshooting database-related issues and driving root cause analysis Optimising and tuning database performance to ensure reliability and efficiency Performing patching and upgrades to ensure data security and compliance Assisting with database migrations, including migrations to cloud-based environments such as AWS Supporting database resilience through backup, recovery, replication, clustering, failover, and disaster recovery activities Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives and the modernisation of database services Qualifications A genuine passion for technology and a strong desire to continuously develop your technical skills Willingness to both share your knowledge and learn from others A proactive approach towards identifying risks, opportunities, and potential improvements An ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team environment A willingness to investigate challenges and develop innovative solutions Good organisational, analytical, and problem solving skills An interest in automation, scripting, and modern infrastructure practices A growth mindset with the ambition to broaden your technical capabilities across databases, cloud technologies, and automation tooling Desirable Skills and Technologies Database Technologies Administration experience in one or more database technologies such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL Server Knowledge of database server clustering, failover, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions Experience with database replication technologies such as Oracle Data Guard, PostgreSQL Replication Manager, and MongoDB Replica Sets Experience in backup and recovery procedures Operating Systems & Cloud Experience supporting Linux operating systems (RHEL) and/or Windows Server Experience working with cloud technologies, particularly AWS Knowledge of AWS database services and database deployments in cloud environments Experience planning or delivering database migrations into cloud environments would be highly advantageous Automation & Scripting Experience with scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, and Bash Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible Familiarity with source control and collaborative development practices using Git Experience identifying opportunities to automate operational and administrative tasks Monitoring & Tooling Knowledge of database monitoring tools such as Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Nagios, or equivalent monitoring platforms
The Access Bank UK is looking for an experienced Oracle Database Administrator to join their dedicated IT Development team in Northwich. The successful candidate will support and develop the Bank's Oracle database estate while ensuring secure and high-performing data platforms. Ideal candidates are collaborative team players with excellent problem-solving skills and significant experience in Oracle database administration, especially Oracle 19c or later. Benefits include a competitive salary and a tailored benefits package.
09/07/2026
Full time
The Access Bank UK is looking for an experienced Oracle Database Administrator to join their dedicated IT Development team in Northwich. The successful candidate will support and develop the Bank's Oracle database estate while ensuring secure and high-performing data platforms. Ideal candidates are collaborative team players with excellent problem-solving skills and significant experience in Oracle database administration, especially Oracle 19c or later. Benefits include a competitive salary and a tailored benefits package.
