DBA Support


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Spring Group Plc

Listed on

7th March 2019

Location

London

Salary/Rate

£35000 - £45000

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Database Support Analyst

London

£35,000 - £45,000

Oracle | SQL | MySQL | DBA | Education

A leading educational institute based in central London is currently recruiting for a Database Support Analyst who will be responsible for the support, administration, maintenance and ongoing improvement of key databases and related services, ensuring that these services are efficient, effective, and meet defined and agreed service levels.

Main activities and responsibilities:

*Responsible for database management services across a wide portfolio of enterprise applications, including academic systems, corporate applications, including Finance and Payroll, HR and Student Records.

*To resolve assigned incidents, service requests and problems in accordance with the IT Incident Management and Service Request Management policies and procedures, and within agreed service level targets.

*Undertake IT changes related to scope of the role in accordance with the IT Change Management Policy and Process

*To undertake all necessary tasks required to support, maintain, administer and improve LSBU's key business databases, including the provision of patches, upgrades and configuration changes required to ensure their integrity is maintained and that they are highly secure, available and fit for purpose.

*To be responsible for ensuring that system/server back-ups and other underpinning infrastructure services are being effectively provided, working in collaboration with colleagues across the IT Services Department.

*To be responsible for ensuring that standards and procedures for the effective support/maintenance of key business databases are developed, maintained and adhered to.

*To provide appropriate documentation for key business databases, including details of the underlying infrastructure and configuration settings to ensure that these can be effectively supported, knowledge documents, and support plans/guides/FAQs .

*To be responsible for ensuring that key business databases are monitored and that they meet agreed availability, performance, capacity and response targets in accordance with varying business demand profile. This will include database analysis and tuning activities.

*To provide support for the development of new/changed IT services and/or projects involving key business databases, and the transition of these into service operation.

*To produce reports, dashboards and management information relating to the performance of key business databases.

Skills

*Recognised qualification in Database Administration for an Enterprise Database Management System preferred.

*Knowledge and experience of using formal database management frameworks, methodologies and techniques.

*Experience of database management, support, administration, maintenance and ongoing improvement.

*Has highly specialised knowledge and experience of at least one Enterprise Database Management System (e.g. Oracle and/or MS-SQL) including backup/restore, availability management, performance tuning, query optimisation and capacity planning.

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