Database Administrator

Database Administrator required by our client, an established expert in the telecommunications, digital audio, and video market. They have an outstanding team of bright, innovative engineers, designing and implementing systems for a very wide range of clients across the whole world.

Job Description - Database Administrator

This role will involve occasional foreign travel to customer sites and be based in offices in the UK, near Northampton. The role includes building and maintaining infrastructure on customer platforms and providing support to system administrators of our systems. This includes Microsoft MSSQL and MySQL DBMS. All systems need to run 24/7 and will adopt any forms of high availability and replication (potentially both) to aid that goal. Monitoring backups is equally important to the recovery of running systems.

Essential

1. Strong Microsoft SQL Server experience (Availability Groups and Replication)
2. Strong MySQL Experience (Galera Clusters)
3. Database design and performance tuning.

Desirable

1. Neo4J Graph Database
2. Cloud Technologies with an emphasis on security and stability
3. Firewall, Networking and VPN configuration and maintenance
4. vCenter, vSphere
5. Operating systems including Linux, Ubuntu
6. Active Directory administration
7. IP cameras, base stations, VOIP phones
8. Internet of Things protocols, (MQTT and/or LoRaWAN)
9. Hardware (servers, desktops, laptops, mobile phones)
10. Delivering virtual and face-to-face training to users of varying technical abilities
11. Should be confident with documenting methods for undertaking tasks.

ALL APPLICANTS MUST BE FREE TO WORK IN THE UK.

Exposed Solutions is acting as an employment agency to this client. Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on any grounds and we confirm that we will gladly accept applications from any persons for this role.