Database Administrator

Department:
IT
- Location:
Colchester, Essex
- Salary Range:
Competitive Salary plus 33 days holiday, Life Assurance and other great Company benefits
- Contract Type:
Permanent

**“Smiley face. It comes as standard here at TrustFord.”**

If you have the attitude to make it happen, TrustFord is for you. We're driving the standard in customer care. Our commitment to giving honest advice that people can trust, nothing is too much trouble for our customers. Whether you join us in a **customer service**, **sales**,** admin**,** technical **or **operational** role, you'll benefit from great career prospects and rewards in a company that's investing in its future and your development.

We are looking for a production focused Junior Production Database Administrator to help support our databases ensuring their performance, scalability and security.

Responsible for the day to day management of all database servers, you will ensure the resilience, availability and maintenance of the database infrastructure that supports our business systems in a true 24/7 environment, keeping TrustFord online.

The team works on large Microsoft SQL Server databases, of which are utilising high availability and disaster recovery configurations. To ensure that our supporting systems are operating as expected you will be required to offer support outside of normal working hours.

The day to day work is interesting, challenging and fast paced amidst a hardworking and delivery focused company ethos. We are looking for applicants with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to tackle some of technologies greatest challenges.

This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid working from home policy.

**Preferred skills and experience**
- Experience of SQL Server.
- Awareness of SQL Server high availability features including replication and log shipping.
- Good communication and presentation skills supported by a high level of energy and persuasion.
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment on multiple projects with independent deadlines and deliverables.
- High attention to detail.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Assessing the quality of all UAT and production database releases ensuring company standards are followed.
- Deploying fit for purpose code to UAT and Live, driving all requests through the process to completion and taking end to end ownership.
- Installing, configuring and upgrading SQL Server across different environments.
- Responding to and resolving ad hoc requests as required to meet business and end user requirements.
- Monitoring, reporting on and maintaining the reporting activity and trends on the database servers and databases to senior management to enable a capacity planning strategy to be employed.

**Qualifications**
Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent degree is essential.
- Industry leading package
- 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) in addition to an annual leave purchase & sale scheme
- Pension Scheme & Life Assurance
- Ford Privilege vehicle purchase scheme
- Discount on Service, Bodyshop and Parts
- 1 day each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice
- Cycle to work purchase scheme
- Access to Perks at Work discount website

**HAPPY TO TALK FLEXIBLE WORKING.**

**AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY WITH ONE OF THE TOP 25 SUNDAY TIMES BEST BIG COMPANIES TO WORK FOR**

**For your first 2 days in the business, you’ll be attending our fantastic residential induction academy. This is at a lovely hotel in the heart of the Northampton countryside, where you’ll learn all about our business before you start your new role.**

**TrustFord is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on any grounds other than ability to carry out the job role.