Database Administrator

6 days ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Pharmacy2U Ltd Full time

**Role **- Database Administrator

**Location **- Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

**Salary **- £60,000 - £65,000 per annum

**About Us**

Pharmacy2U is the UK's first and largest online pharmacy, we're a market leader in the pharmacy world, with 20 years’ experience, helping over 700,000 patients in England manage their NHS repeat prescriptions from request through to delivery.

**Role**

Develop and maintain a highly available, secure, and performant data platform. Optimising and monitoring production databases across an estate of Physical, Cloud and PaaS environments.

A challenging and dynamic opportunity in a small and highly focused team, supporting the business to achieve its goals.

**Responsibilities**

Working for a market leading organisation as DBA you will be responsible for the configuration, availability, integrity and security of all databases and data sources. With a natural ability to identify, assess, prioritise and deliver improvements to the environments you are responsible for, you will proactively manage technology and processes to deliver high-quality architecture you can be proud of.

Main Duties
- Ensure all database platforms are highly available
- Ensure all data sources are secure and access is controlled, reviewed, and audited
- Contribute to the creation of effective backup, proactive maintenance, and disaster recovery plans
- Work with third parties for new installations, upgrades, maintenance, testing, troubleshooting and general advice and guidance as required to ensure all delivered services meet requirements
- Respond to support escalations from DevOps and technical colleagues, providing specific expertise for troubleshooting as required
- Build strong relationships in the business to understand business objectives, specific data requirements and how the data you maintain adds value to the business
- Controlled execution of data management tasks
- Configure, maintenance and get maximum value from proactive monitoring using tools such as Redgate and New Relic
- Population and maintenance of software development lifecycle environments

**Skills**

Essential
- SQL Server 2019 and Azure SQL
- Strong operations experience in troubleshooting and root cause analysis
- Experience of performance tuning and optimizing
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft T-SQL
- Excellent communication skills, and attention to detail
- Experience using native and third-party performance monitoring tools such as Redgate SQL Monitor and New Relic

Desirable
- Experience of cloud-based or hosted database platforms such as Amazon AWS RDS and similar technologies
- Experience with Cosmos DB
- Experience with MI/BI Technologies (SSIS,SSRS and SSAS)
- Experience with high availability and clustering technologies

**What we will offer you**
- 25 days annual leave increasing with service plus bank holidays
- Brand new head office at The Springs, with discounts on leisure facilities close by.
- Contributory pension
- Employee discount site. Plus 25% discount on staff health and beauty purchases
- Social events throughout the year
- Free onsite parking and refreshments as well as a Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme (includes Online Health and Wellbeing Resource)

Key Words -Database Administrator, Junior Database Administrator, IT, MI, BI, Azure SQL, DBA, Database Developer, Database Tester

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