What will I be doing?

As a Senior Database Administrator within the DBA team you will:

• Lead the creation and continual improvement of automation tools to support the DBA team in the administration of our growing estate of SQL Server and PostgreSQL estate  
• Ensure all production servers are properly secured and patches are applied in a timely fashion
• Proactively identify performance problems and work with development teams to implement improvements to application performance
• Provide guidance in the creation and modification of standards and procedures
• Engineering and defining builds on a Database during development and testing
• Providing day-to-day support within the Engineering infrastructure departments and working coherently with other development teams
• Strong understanding of DR and monitoring standards
• Owning and regulating current Database infrastructure
• Designing and maintaining a multi-site SQL environment
• Understanding and maintaining database security

 

What skills and experience would I need?

• Administration of SQL Server and PostgreSQL
• Enterprise monitoring tools such as SQL Monitor, Prometheus, Graphite, etc…
• Source Control for tracking and managing changes to DBA tooling
• Knowledge of automation languages (PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, Terraform)
• Familiarity with High Availability/Disaster Recovery solutions
• The ability to update, back-up and recover databases via
• Strong experience of Transactional Replication
• Installation and configuration of SQL server
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Willing and eager to expand your skill set in other database technologies

 

Desirable Skills

• Implementation and management of Always on groups
• Windows Server and failover clusters
• Network experience
• We leverage Google BigQuery to provide read-only data replicas for reporting and ML (Machine Learning) model training. Increasing use requires us to manage this in-line with the rest of our data estate.

What's in it for me?

Career Development

• Access bespoke development programmes that have been designed and developed by our in-house L&D team.
• Continued development through our upskilling programme that is delivered in partnership with an industry-leading training provider.

Enhanced Leave

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Don’t want to work on your birthday? We don’t either! Enjoy your day off on us!
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, depending on length of service.
• Up to 10 days compassionate leave.
• Buy back up to 3 days each year.
• Unlock 2 days volunteer leave after 12-months.

Wellbeing Support

• Access face-to-face and virtual appointments with our in-house GP.
• Access our in-house CBT therapist.
• Access our 247 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which is provided by Bupa.
• State-of-the-art on-site gym.
• Access to our on-site physio.

Other Perks

• Save up to 12% on the cost of personal tech through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Subsidised bus pass from Manchester City Centre to our ICON office.
• Up to 50% staff discount on THG brands.
• On-site staff shop.
• Access to on-site barber.
• Know someone who would be perfect for THG? Refer them and get up to £1000 when they pass their probation.
• Anniversary gifts when you hit 5 and 10 years of service.