Senior Database Administrator

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time
DEPARTMENT: HIPE (Hosting Infrastructure & Platform Engineering) in Technology & Media Operations
LOCATION: London - hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to 62500 plus London Weighting depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application though theres no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

As a Senior Systems Engineer (DBA) within the BBCs Technology & Media Operations group youll be working with systems that support both broadcast and corporate services. This role gives you the chance to directly influence technical strategy and key engineering decisions driving performance resilience and reliability across business-critical platforms. You will work hands-on with a wide range of relational database technologies including Oracle MySQL SQL Server and PostgreSQL

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Join the well-established highly skilled Database Team working alongside other Engineering teams. As a Senior Systems Engineer (DBA) you will work across the BBCs diverse on-premise database estate while helping shape our journey into cloud-based operations. You will also get the chance to explore machine learning and containerisation technologies making this a great opportunity to innovate develop new skills and make a real impact across the BBC.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

Work with teams across the BBC and with system vendors and suppliers on the implementation of secure and highly available database solutions
Write review and take responsibility for technical documentation as part of project and product delivery
Install configure and provide operational support for relational databases
Monitor and tune database performance
Respond to incidents during office hours and as part of out of hours support leading on resolution and root cause analysis

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE KEY CRITERIA

ESSENTIAL

Expertise in at least 3 of the following major RDBMS (Oracle MySQL SQL Server PostgreSQL)
Strong SQL T-SQL/PL-SQL scripting (Python PowerShell).
Knowledge of monitoring and performance tuning solutions for relational databases
Familiarity with replication clustering and HA/DR configurations for different database technologies.
Experience with backup and recovery strategies and their implementation
Experience with security best practices and compliance and their implementation

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED

Experience with databases on cloud platforms
Experience with containerisation technologies.
Experience with NoSQL databases
Experience with automation and Machine Learning

Required Experience: