Role: Senior Database Administrator - DV
Location: Aldermaston (5 days/week onsite)
IR35: Inside
Rate: £67.49/hr (Umbrella) MAX
Duration: 12 Months (Potential extension)
Security Clearance: DV
Key Accountabilities:
* Provide primary support for Oracle and MS SQL database environments including daily operations, backup and recovery, performance monitoring and tuning, and production support.
* Development, documentation, implementation and maintenance of operational policies/best practice for the database estate.
* Continual process improvement with a focus on automation of repeatable tasks.
* Identification of self-service opportunities and ownership of implementation.
* Ensuring changes to databases and services align with operational standards, service level agreements and business requirements.
* Design and implementation of new database environments.
* Strategic planning, capacity planning, and implementing best practices for database management.
* Introduce and deploy new database technology.
Key Responsibilities:
* Full life cycle support of Oracle (19c) and MS SQL (2016, 2019 & 2022) environments.
* Provide advice and recommendations on database architecture, design, and implementation.
* Develop, support, and communicate database policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
* Design and implement database solutions that meet customer requirements for reliability, availability, scalability, security, and performance.
* Install, upgrade and test database software, in addition to troubleshooting database issues.
* Responsible for development of database backup and recovery procedures, ensuring data integrity and identifying potential data errors.
* Plan and perform disaster recovery testing with database restoration in alternate locations.
* Assist application development teams with planning and implementations, including review and approval of database schema changes, procedures and query optimizations.
* Maintain the performance of the database estate.
* Respond to incidents/changes within published SLA's to maintain/resume service.
* Work with 3rd party suppliers as necessary to meet operational demands.
* Collaborate with other IT teams to ensure integration of databases with other systems and applications is compliant with operational standards and best practice.
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