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Lead Database Administrator

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United Kingdom , Manchester

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Job Description:

The Lead DBA owns the architecture, operations and strategic direction of the database platforms. The role spans infrastructure, application and reliability engineering disciplines ensuring environments are secure, scalable and performant. The Lead DBA works closely with the Engineering Manager, architects and engineering teams to define standards, guide technical decisions and mentor the DBA team. This role is both strategic and hands-on delivering business-critical database services.

Job Responsibility:

  • Lead the design and maintenance of highly available, fault-tolerant database infrastructure
  • Plan for growth and scalability aligned with business and platform needs
  • Evaluate and integrate emerging database technologies to improve performance and efficiency
  • Ensure compliance with security, governance and regulatory requirements
  • Manage resource utilisation across storage, compute, memory and networking
  • Implement and validate replication, clustering and disaster recovery strategies
  • Apply patches, upgrades and security hardening
  • Monitor database health, capacity and performance proactively
  • Collaborate with developers to optimise schema design, indexing and queries
  • Support deployments, migrations and application-aligned changes
  • Maintain data integrity and resilience across all workloads
  • Troubleshoot complex database and application-facing issues
  • Build and maintain CI/CD and automation pipelines
  • Automate routine operations including backups, restores and patching
  • Identify and remediate platform risks and points of failure
  • Partner with DevOps, SRE and platform teams on operational maturity
  • Define and enforce operational standards and best practices
  • Mentor Senior and Junior DBAs
  • Drive continuous improvement across database operations and tooling

Requirements:

  • Strong experience across relational and non-relational platforms (MariaDB, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.)
  • Deep expertise in HA, replication, clustering and DR
  • Strong Linux administration and advanced scripting skills
  • Proven ability to solve complex performance issues
  • Strong understanding of security, compliance and governance
  • Experience leading teams and defining standards
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD, automation and IaC (Ansible, Terraform)

Nice to have:

  • Experience with cloud or hybrid database platforms
  • Familiarity with modern observability tooling
  • Knowledge of sharding, partitioning and scale-out strategies
  • Experience supporting application performance and database integration
What we offer:
  • A competitive rate of pay and pension contribution ( £80,000 - £90,000)
  • Generous discretionary bonus schemes, incentives and competitions
  • An annual leave entitlement that increases with length of service
  • Access to an online GP 24/7, 365 days a year for you and your immediate family
  • Employee wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Programme
  • Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
  • Long Service Recognition
  • Access to a pay day savings scheme, financial coach and up to 40% of your earned wage ahead of payday, through Wagestream

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Job Posted:
May 04, 2026

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