Database Administrator

3 weeks ago


Liverpool, United Kingdom The Riverside Group Full time

Database Administrator
Permanent Hybrid
Full Time 35hrs per week
Work Pattern Monday-Friday
Salary £44,339-£48,583
Based in Liverpool

Want to make a real difference to the lives of people? For over 90 years, The Riverside Group has been providing affordable housing across the UK to people as well as care for the elderly and support for those who face homelessness.

**The difference you’ll make**

You will develop, maintain, and ensure adherence to the Group’s database operational standards and controls including management, archiving, backups, recovery, monitoring and alerting, with input into Database Technology Reference Architectures owned by the IT Architecture function.

**So, who are you?**

Essentially you will have a good understanding of structured query language (SQL).

Ideally the role owner will have experience of one or more of the following mainstream databases technologies, MS Access, SQL Server, Ingres, Sybase, Progress, MySQL, Solaris.

Have excellent attention to detail with the ability to work under pressure, deliver to strict deadlines and manage conflicting priorities.

As well as having the ability to work using own initiative as well as being an excellent team player who can work flexibly to meet business requirements.

**Enjoy the rewards**

Working with us, you’ll enjoy competitive pay, 28 days holidays plus bank holidays, a wide range of benefits, flexible working, and the chance to learn valuable new skills. We empower our people to do great work by investing in learning, personal development, and technology.

If you’re the kind of person that wants to do a really great job and make a difference to our customers, we think you’ll love it here. Sound like a challenge you’d like to take on? Then get in touch and let’s talk about how you can help us transform lives and revitalise neighbourhoods.

We encourage applicants from all sections of the community so that we can truly reflect the

**Job purpose**

Accountable for the proactive monitoring, support, maintenance, and ongoing housekeeping of all Group databases, whether developed internally or by a third-party provider.

Subject Matter Expert for design, maintenance, and support of a range of databases and database technologies and tools to industry standards, responsible for the operational performance, integrity, and security of the databases.

**Role requires you to**:

- Develop, maintain, and ensure adherence to the Group’s database operational standards and controls including management, archiving, backups, recovery, monitoring and alerting, with input into Database Technology Reference Architectures owned by the IT Architecture function.
- Assist the Project Delivery and IT Architecture database design teams; advising on industry best practice, data security, integrity, and optimising performance, and provide approval on database design functional specifications.
- Enrol users and maintain system security ensuring compliance with database vendor license agreement.
- Control and monitor user access to the database, monitoring and optimising the performance of the database, planning for backup and recovery of database information, maintaining archived data, backing up and restoring databases and contacting database vendor for technical support.
- Respond to monitoring feedback and manage alerts to minimise disruption to services, working to agreed rotas covering 24x7x365, meeting agreed Operations Level Agreements (OLAs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) as appropriate.
- Accountable for the definition, design, implementation, and continuous improvement of proactive monitoring and alerting of thresholds in database efficiency and performance, and as required, undertaking remedial actions.
- Adhere to Data Architecture and Information Security controls thereby sustaining the security and integrity of the data. The Riverside Group Limited Registered Office: 2 Estuary Boulevard, Estuary Commerce Park, Liverpool L24 8RF A charitable Registered Society under the Co-operative and Community Benefits Societies Act 2014 Page 1 of 3
- Creating complex query definitions that allow data to be extracted and communicated in a controlled and secure manner and guide technical colleagues as required on best practice/how to input and extract data.
- Provide risk assessment as input to Change process ‘requests for change, and once authorised, through the change process change, updating existing production/live databases.
- Provide second/third-line incident support and meet the incident service level agreements as advised by the Service Desk and fulfil standard service requests as communicated by the Service Desk.
- Maintain knowledge of industry standards and best practice to ensure optimal IT services, solutions, and processes across the Group.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of IT processes and procedures.
- Respond flexibly to any necessary changes in work priorities and undertake other duties when required



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