Senior Database Administrator (Oracle & MS SQL)

This role is Inside IR35.

Clearance: DV

Contract Length: 12 months with a view to extending

Location: Aldermaston, fully onsite.

Key Accountabilities:

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

To support the Technical Service Manager(s) and Team Leader in maintaining the operational status, and maximising availability of assets to programme demanders.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Full life cycle support of Oracle (19c) and MS SQL (2016, 2019 & 2022) environments.
2. Provide advice and recommendations on database architecture, design, and implementation.
3. Develop, support, and communicate database policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
4. Design and implement database solutions that meet customer requirements for reliability, availability, scalability, security, and performance.
5. Install, upgrade and test database software, in addition to troubleshooting database issues.
6. Responsible for development of database backup and recovery procedures, ensuring data integrity and identifying potential data errors.
7. Plan and perform disaster recovery testing with database restoration in alternate locations.
8. Assist application development teams with planning and implementations, including review and approval of database schema changes, procedures and query optimizations.