Database Administrator

Database Administrator / Leeds (1-2x per month in the office) / £55,000 - £65,000, We're looking for an experienced Database Administrator to take ownership of a large, business-critical database estate within a highly regulated environment. This is a hands-on role where you'll act as the gatekeeper for production databases, ensuring data security, performance, availability, and compliance at all times.

You'll work closely with delivery, application support, and engineering teams to enable safe, well-governed change while protecting the integrity of production systems. The role offers significant responsibility, high visibility, and the opportunity to work on complex, high-transaction databases that underpin critical services.

If you're a dependable, SQL-focused DBA who thrives in regulated environments and takes pride in keeping production systems stable and performant, this role offers real impact and long-term ownership., As a Database Administrator, you'll be responsible for the stability, security, and performance of production databases across multiple environments. Your remit includes:

• Acting as custodian of production database access, governance, and separation of duties
• Ensuring databases remain online, scalable, robust, and secure
• Owning monitoring, alerting, backups, indexing, and maintenance routines
• Proactively tuning and optimising database performance
• Supporting change and delivery teams during releases and incident resolution
• Contributing to schema changes, indexing strategies, and new database builds
• Supporting database consolidation and migration initiatives

Key Focus Areas

• Safeguard production databases in line with strict regulatory and audit controls
• Own performance monitoring, alerting, backup, and maintenance processes
• Diagnose and resolve performance issues, timeouts, and failures
• Enable delivery teams by reducing database-related blockers
• Support controlled releases and major production changes

What's in it for You?

• High-impact role safeguarding mission-critical production systems
• Exposure to large-scale, complex database environments
• Opportunity to develop cloud skills over time
• Organisation actively adopting modern tooling and AI-driven productivity improvements
• Predominantly remote working with occasional on-site attendance (approx. 15 days per year)
• Salary up to £65,000
• Bonus up to 17% plus stocks that vest every 2 years

• Strong, demonstrable T-SQL expertise
• Proven experience in database performance tuning and optimisation
• Experience supporting large-scale, high-transaction databases
• Strong background in data optimisation for automated, high-volume systems
• Experience working in production-critical environments
• Exposure to cloud-based platforms

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