Lead Database Administrator
Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
GBP 80K-95K Senior-level Full Time
Tasks
- Apply patches upgrades and security hardening
- Automate backups restores and patching
- Build and maintain CI/CD automation pipelines
- Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and platform teams
- Define and enforce operational standards and best practices
- Design and maintain highly available fault tolerant database infrastructure
- Ensure database security compliance governance and regulatory requirements
- Evaluate and integrate emerging database technologies
- Identify and remediate platform risks and points of failure
- Implement replication clustering and disaster recovery
- Manage database resource utilization storage compute memory networking
- Mentor DBAs and drive continuous improvement
- Monitor database health capacity and performance
- Optimize database schema, indexing, and queries
- Plan database scalability and growth
- Support deployments migrations and application changes
- Troubleshoot complex database and application issues
Perks/Benefits
- Discretionary bonus
- Employee assistance programme
- Enhanced maternity pay
- Enhanced paternity pay
- Financial coaching
- Increased annual leave
- Long service recognition
- Online GP 24 7
- Pension contribution
- Wagestream wage advance
Skills/Tech-stack
Ansible | Automation | Backup | CI/CD | Clustering | Database security | Disaster Recovery | Disaster Recovery Planning | Indexing | Infrastructure as Code | Linux | MariaDB | MongoDB | MySQL | Observability | Performance Tuning | Query Optimization | Recovery Planning | Replication | Restore | Schema Design | Scripting | Terraform | “as-code”
Education
N/A
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