Database Administrator / Leeds (1-2x per month in the office) / £55,000 - £65,000
About the Role
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.
What We're Looking For
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 platformsRole Overview
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 initiativesKey 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 changesWhat'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
Applications for the role close on Friday 23rd January.
If this role excites you and you want to make a tangible impact, please get in touch with Dominic Brown or send your CV
Database Administrator / Leeds (1-2x per month in the office) / £55,000 - £65,000
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