Database Engineer (DBA)

We are representing a confidential e-commerce technology client in Manchester who are seeking a Database Engineer (DBA) to join their platform team. This is a hands-on role supporting a cloud-based database estate following a major migration to Google Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

Database administration

• Install, configure, maintain and upgrade PostgreSQL and SQL Server environments across development, test and production
• Ensure database servers are securely configured, patched and compliant with operational standards
• Own backup, restore and maintenance strategies, and test recovery procedures regularly
• Maintain database security, access control and auditing practices

Cloud and infrastructure

• Deploy and manage database environments in Google Cloud Platform, using Compute Engine instances or managed services such as Cloud SQL where appropriate
• Configure networking, storage and security controls for cloud-hosted database systems
• Support the remaining on-premise footprint and the realities of running a hybrid estate

Modernisation

• Contribute to migration and consolidation work across the estate, covering schema and code conversion, data migration, testing and cutover
• Help shape and deliver the next phase of modernisation across the estate
• Bring ideas forward to improve processes and systems

Resilience and performance

• Build and maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including replication
• Identify and resolve performance issues, and work with development teams on query, indexing and schema design
• Maintain monitoring and alerting so problems are caught proactively rather than reported by users

Automation and change

• Automate provisioning, patching, backups and routine maintenance
• Keep all scripts, configuration and database change in GitHub, delivered through CI/CD pipelines and proper change management
• Contribute to database standards, runbooks and documentation

Operational support

• Participate in the rotating on-call rota supporting production systems
• Provide day-to-day support to engineering and infrastructure teams
• Take part in incident response and post-incident review

What We're Looking For

Essential skills and experience:

• PostgreSQL (core requirement): solid production administration experience covering configuration, upgrades, backup and recovery, replication and basic performance tuning
• Microsoft SQL Server: production administration including availability groups, backups, patching and maintenance
• SQL: able to write and optimise complex queries and read an execution plan
• Google Cloud Platform: deploying and managing database infrastructure in GCP (Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, storage, networking, IAM)
• High availability and disaster recovery: supporting HA/DR architectures and replication technologies
• Backup and recovery: strong understanding of strategies and hands-on restore experience
• GitHub and CI/CD: working with source control day to day and comfortable with change management in a production environment
• Automation: scripting in Python, PowerShell or Bash to remove manual toil
• Monitoring and alerting: using enterprise tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring or equivalent
• On-call: willing to join a rotating rota and handle production incidents
• Communication: clear written and verbal communication, and effective collaboration with engineering teams

Desirable skills:

• Migration experience moving production workloads between database engines
• NoSQL / document-store experience
• Distributed SQL platforms experience
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform or Ansible
• Database CI/CD tooling: Flyway, Liquibase or Redgate
• On-premise infrastructure: servers, storage, networking, virtualisation
• Kafka or streaming platforms

Personal attributes:

• Curious and like learning – keen to deepen expertise in technologies that may not be your strongest today
• Challenge constructively – speak up when something looks wrong or inefficient
• Want room to grow – supported to stretch beyond your job description
• Methodical – you test, you document, and you think about the restore before the backup
• Communicate well with people who are not database engineers
• A dependable teammate who takes on-call responsibilities seriously

How We Work With You

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai screens all applications and presents qualified candidates to our client. When you apply through our platform, a recruiter will review your profile and arrange an initial conversation if there's a potential match. We then submit you to the client for consideration.

Please apply only through Get A Job.ai – do not contact the client directly, as we are managing this search exclusively.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruitment team.

Equal Opportunity

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