Senior Database Administrator

**Salary**: £39,748 to £44,166 (dependent on qualifications and experience)
Plus a recruitment and retention allowance of up to £10,000 per annum (dependent on experience)
Benefits: 30 days holiday + 8 bank holidays + 2.5 privilege days + exceptional defined average salary pension + excellent work life balance
Location: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Oxfordshire
Full time/Part Time (minimum of 25 hours a week)

Come and do the kind of computing that got you into technology in the first place. Work with cutting-edge tech and world-leading scientists and engineers. And harness the power of some of the country's most advances supercomputers to tackle work that improves daily life in the UK and far beyond.

Put simply, come and discover the impact you can make when you're equipped, encouraged and inspired to perform to your very best.

The Scientific Computing Department (SCD) provides large-scale computing facilities, data storage and infrastructure at both Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire. Made up of numerical analysis, scientific computing and computation groups, the expertise and intelligence SCD provides UKRI, underpins almost every key calculation across the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and beyond.

**_About the role:_**
Due to the growth of SCD we have a vacancy for a highly motivated Database Administrator to join the group. In this role you will be responsible for developing and operating professional database services supporting the work of STFC alongside taking an active role in advising on the architecture and technology strategy for the database services going forward, with an end goal of meeting the science facilities ever increasing needs for storing, searching and analysing their data.

**_Work Programme:_**
Support the full database/system management lifecycle (requirements, design, specification, install, maintenance, security patching, RMAN backups etc.) for Oracle RAC, PostgreSQL, Galera Cluster, MySQL, MongoDB etc.
Database performance monitoring and tuning
Create and manage project plans for database implementation, migration and upgrade.
Develop standards and policies that the group can adopt to fulfil and comply with STFC standards.

**_About you:_**
We are looking for someone who can demonstrate good communication skills, good organisational skills, and an analytical approach to problem solving. You’ll need to provide a share of on call support (systems can be supported remotely) and undertake some travel in the UK and overseas, e.g. to CERN, conferences when travel for meetings/conferences resumes.
Additional training and certification opportunities are also offered.

**_Essential Skills:_**
Experience with Oracle 19c in a production service environment, including Oracle RAC, installation, backup/restore, monitoring, performance tuning etc.
Experience with another database technology, e.g. MongoDB, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL
Knowledge of Unix/Linux.
Good communication skills, good organisational skills and an analytical approach to problem solving
You must be able to take a reasonable share of the team’s on-call (24/7 support) responsibilities - services can be supported remotely.

**_Employee Benefits:_**
We are offering a permanent position with a whole host of benefits including:
30 days holiday (in addition to 10.5 bank holidays and privilege days).
Flexible working hours.
An excellent defined average salary pension scheme.
Employee shopping/travel discounts.
Excellent learning and development opportunities.
Relocation allowance may also be available where applicable.

We ask some of the biggest questions in the universe, to answer some of the biggest challenges in the world. Together, our scientists, technologists, engineers and business-support team explore the unknown across every field you could think of. And they turn what they find into work that changes the world around us.

What could you achieve with the world-leading facilities and experts of one of Europe's largest research organisations by your side? Join us and discover what's possible.

**About STFC**

One of Europe’s largest research organisations, we’re trusted to support, enable and undertake cutting-edge projects in an amazing diversity of fields. Through world-class facilities and people, we’re driving ground-breaking advances in science, engineering, computing and technology. Our research seeks to understand the Universe from the largest astronomical scales to the tiniest constituents of matter, yet creates impact on a very tangible, human scale.

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