SQL Database Adminstrator

**Who are Benifex?**

We are a fast-moving technology company, and **one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the world.**We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build **workplace technology** that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to **build remarkable experiences that employees love.**Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, **we need brilliant people** on board and that’s where you come in.

**Why should you apply?**
- **Autonomy**: Own the running and management of our global SQL server estate
- **Technical Progression**: Work on business critical migration projects and upskill in MongoDB, AlloyDB and Cloud SQL
- **Career Progression**: Progress longer term into a Platform Engineer, Data Engineer role or progress down the management track
- **Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025**and **Best Large Tech Company to Work for** 2025**:

- Work for a **profitable, fast-growing** **market leader**in the online reward and benefits space

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require to people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position

**Great benefits**:
£50,000-65,000

Tech setup of your choice (MacBook Pro or equivalent, monitors, etc.)

£800 annual learning budget, plus two hours per week as ‘Focus Fridays’.

Flexible work - choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a quarter in the office and you must be based in the UK or Ireland.

Full access to our comprehensive benefits package, including discounts from hundreds of high street brands, salary sacrifice schemes across Finance, Health, Tech, and more

️ 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays

Your birthday off

️ Two half day wellbeing days

Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day-to-day healthcare

Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support

Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)

Referral bonuses

Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave

️ Work from Anywhere policy for 90 days

️ Buy and Sell scheme for holidays

£50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benifex card will be topped up at the start of each month

**Role Overview**

We are looking for a **skilled, proactive Database Administrator** to join our Platform team, taking ownership of our database estate that includes **SQL Server, MongoDB, and MySQL** instances across multiple global environments.

As our dedicated DBA, you’ll ensure our databases are secure, performant, and highly available. You’ll also work closely with developers to design, optimise, and maintain our data layer in line with best practices.

**Responsibilities**

**Database Operations**:

- Administer and maintain **SQL Server** installations:

- Backups/restores lifecycle management
- Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) key management
- Failover clustering
- Maintenance plans (DBCC, index management, log pruning)
- Side-by-side upgrades and environment migrations
- Performance tuning and configuration beyond defaults
- Troubleshooting and recovery in case of outages
- Administer **MongoDB** deployments:

- Backup and restore procedures
- Monitoring and performance analysis
- Schema design review
- Administer **MySQL** deployments:

- Backup strategies
- Replication setup and monitoring
- Query optimisation and indexing

**Development & Collaboration**
- Work with engineering teams to:

- Understand business requirements
- Develop, maintain, and optimise stored procedures and queries
- Automate routine database tasks and processes
- Enforce best practices for database development and deployment
- Provide routine feedback to developers on query optimisation
- Review changes to data access patterns proposed by developers to ensure performance and best practices

**Security & Compliance**
- Implement and maintain encryption, access controls, and auditing.
- Ensure compliance with data protection regulations (e.g. GDPR).

**Monitoring & Incident Response**
- Configure and maintain monitoring solutions.
- Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Lead database recovery efforts in the event of failures (compute, storage, network).

**What are we looking for?**

**Must Have Experience**:

- Strong experience with **SQL Server administration and T-SQL development**.
- Performance tuning expertise across RDBMS systems.
- Proven experience with database backup/restore strategies.
- Understanding of data modelling principles.
- Experience with source control (e.g. **Git/GitHub**).
- Scripting ability (e.g. **PowerShell**, Bash, or Python).

**Nice to Have**:

- Production experience with **MongoDB,MySQL** (or demonstrated ability to learn quickly).
- Exposure to cloud database offerings (GCP Cloud SQL)
- Awareness of database securit