DBA - Oracle & Microsoft

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A great opportunity to practice your DBA skills in a leading UK education company. The ideal candidate will have both breadth and depth in managing DBMS, as well as strong problem solving and trouble shooting skills. This role provides an excellent opportunity to develop existing DBA skillsets across MS SQL, Oracle SQL and MySQL database platforms.

The role encompasses all aspects of database administration, planning and maintenance. Additionally, the DBA will manage database capacity planning, monitoring, reviewing and providing advice to developers on scripts, data conversion, user access management and data uploads. You will be joining a talented IT team in an outcome focused and flexible working environment. The position is based in London but with frequent travel to Manchester with occasional overseas travel.

The DBA will: -

- Own and manage the performance and reliability of the company's databases

- Own and manage scheduled database jobs and ad hoc scripting

- Participate in technology and business projects and lead on all database components for projects

- Work with architects to ensure that all database designs are optimised and efficient and changes are fully documented and align to internal standards

- Ensure quality of applications in terms of performance, integration, integrity, security and data quality

- Diagnose, analyse and rectify client software database problems

- Create sanitised data sets for use in development and testing

- Execute one off data migration jobs and scripts as required

- Perform functional testing on new/upgraded databases

- Engage with vendors in testing new releases to database software

- Assist the infrastructure team in sizing hardware used for database software

- Working with other IT support functions resolve service disruptions

Candidate Pre-requisites

Ideally you must have:-

- Extensive experience working as a database administrator in a corporate environment both in production and development environments

- Excellent DBA skills working both Microsoft SQL (2008/16) and Oracle SQL (8i, 10g, 11g)

- Oracle ASM and MS SQL Clustering

- DDL Scripting

- Oracle ASM

- PL/SQL

- Intermediate level experience of MySQL

- Capacity planning and database performance tuning/optimisation

- Microsoft DBA and/or Oracle DBA qualifications

- Exposure to IT frameworks such as ITIL

- Ideally some exposure to working with Power BI and/or SAS

Benefits:

The employer is one of the UK's leading private universities dedicated to business and the professions and offers professional, apprenticeship and degree qualifications.

The company offers excellent career development opportunities and free access to its portfolio of courses, in addition to a flexible and comprehensive benefits package which includes private medical insurance, contributory pension, childcare vouchers etc.

The role is a full time and permanent position offering between £45-£55k depending on experience. This company are acting as an employment agency regarding this position