Database Administrator

Database Administrator\n\nLocation: Central London or Manchester – on site 5 days a week.\n\nDue to security vetting requirements candidates must be UK nationals or sole British citizens with no dual nationality and resided in the UK 10 years or over.\n\nDXC Technology is committed to building diverse, inclusive teams. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and particularly encourage interest from women, underrepresented groups, and neurodivergent candidates. We offer reasonable adjustments throughout the hiring process and are dedicated to creating a supportive, accessible environment for everyone.\n\nAt DXC Technology, delivering excellence for our customers and colleagues is more than just a motto, it’s something we strive towards constantly through our work. Every day we deliver mission critical services in a secure environment whilst promoting our people first agenda, a real sense of community and a healthy work-life balance. Our consistently positive customer feedback and continuous growth helps us cement our place as one of the world’s leading IT solutions enterprises, helping us deliver services and solutions in both challenging and exciting situations.\n\nAt DXC, one of our platinum accounts has an opening for an experienced Database Administrator. The successful candidate will work within one of our database support teams and will be focused and motivated with good interpersonal skills. Your role will include optimising and tuning database performance and assisting in database migration.\n\nRole responsibilities:\n\nInstalling and configuring database binaries\n\nWriting and maintaining scripts to automate DBA tasks\n\nInvestigating and implementing automation of processes\n\nPerform routine, periodic, and proactive operation and monitoring\n\nTroubleshoot database related issues\n\nPerform patching and upgrades to ensure data security\n\nWhat you will bring to the team:\n\nWillingness to both share your knowledge and learn from others\n\nA proactive approach towards looking for risks and problems\n\nAn ability to work both independently and in a team\n\nA willingness to investigate challenges and solve them\n\nGood organisational, analytical, and problem-solving skills\n\nDesirable Skills and Technologies\n\nAdministration experience in a database technology such as Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, etc\n\nExperience of OS such as RHEL and Windows Server\n\nExperience in cloud technologies such as AWS and AWS database.\n\nMigrations into AWS\n\nExperience in Ansible\n\nKnowledge of database monitoring tools, such as OEM and Nagios\n\nExperience in scripting, such as Powershell and Bash\n\nKnowledge of database server clustering, failover, and disaster recovery\n\nExperience in database replication software, such as Data Guard, Replication Manager for PostgreSQL, and MongoDB ReplicaSets\n\nExperience in backup/recovery procedures and scripting