Senior Database Administrator Job at 360 Resourcing Solutions (Manchester)

Senior Database Administrator

360 Resourcing Solutions

Location:
United Kingdom , Manchester

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

60000.00 - 75000.00 GBP / Year

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Job Description:

The Senior Database Administrator (DBA) is responsible for the delivery, maintenance and optimisation of secure, scalable and high-performance database services. The role requires deep technical expertise across infrastructure, application and reliability engineering disciplines with a focus on ensuring database environments remain stable, efficient and well-automated. The Senior DBA will work closely with the Lead DBA, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Development teams to design, implement and support resilient database solutions. The role is highly hands-on and suited to a technically driven individual with a passion for continual improvement and operational excellence.

Job Responsibility:

Administer and maintain production and non-production database environments
Monitor and optimise database performance, replication, backups and high availability configurations
Diagnose and resolve complex performance, reliability and capacity issues across database and infrastructure layers
Apply patches, upgrades and security hardening to ensure compliance and stability
Design and maintain automation for database provisioning, maintenance, monitoring and deployment
Implement configuration management and infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Ansible and Terraform
Collaborate with SRE and platform engineering teams to embed observability, alerting and resilience best practices
Work closely with the Lead DBA and development teams to implement database design standards and performance tuning best practices
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior DBAs and engineers
Participate in incident response and root cause analysis activities ensuring that preventative measures are implemented
Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and scalability challenges
Evaluate emerging database technologies and contribute to their adoption where appropriate
Maintain technical documentation, operational playbooks and automation scripts to support consistency and knowledge sharing

Requirements:

Experience in MariaDB/MySQL or equivalent RDBMS environments
Strong knowledge of database architecture, replication, partitioning and performance optimisation
Proficiency in Linux administration and scripting (Bash, Shell or Python)
Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible or Terraform
Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across database and system layers
Familiarity with CI/CD and observability tooling

Nice to have:

Experience with AWS RDS or other cloud-managed database platforms
Knowledge of Liquibase or similar schema migration tools
Understanding of data protection, disaster recovery and retention strategies
Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus or Grafana

What we offer:

A competitive rate of pay and pension contribution (£60,000 -£75,000)
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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
May 04, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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