Senior Database Administrator

2 months ago


Worthing, United Kingdom Southern Water Full time

Closing Date

2024-08-12

Job Title: Senior SQL Database Administrator Specialist

Location: Durrington Hybrid

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours a week, plus on-call

Salary: Up to £60,000

There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint

Job Overview

Southern Water is currently going through an IT transformation which will strategically change the way it delivers IT support and services to its business and end users. To help support this strategic initiative; The Business Technology Services (BTS) Department acts as the delivery unit for Southern Water end users requiring IT services along with supporting the delivery of strategic and tactical projects.

This position is part of the BTS – Core Technologies Team. The role will be expected to liaise with team members as well as other IT and Business teams within Southern Water.

As an SQL Server Database Administrator at Southern Water, you will join our journey of IT transformation. You will be working with our latest technology, providing database admin services across the SQL Server infrastructure within Southern Water.

You will take a lead on projects, support & mentor other team members to build the skills of our team, advise & contribute to architectural solutions and pro-actively provide solutions to continuously improve our offering to our business partners.

You will be playing a vital role working on the transformational journey working with a state-of-the-art data centre environment and going forwards, a growing cloud focus. Within this role, you will be working on, upgrading and migrating SQL Server databases from legacy versions, 2000 onwards, to SQL Server 2022.

The role encompasses a 24x7 out of hours standby capability which is governed by a pre-defined rota, generally one week in 4.

Responsibilities will include:

SQL Database Administration including installation and maintenance of Availability Groups. Test, start-up, shutdown, housekeeping, restores, backup and recovery for production and non-production environments. Tuning, installing software, maintenance and support. Troubleshooting and issue resolution for all database components. Ensure HA, DR and Backups are configured correctly and available. Perform updates & patching in all database environments. Provide advanced scripting techniques to automate processes. Writing and reviewing database documentation, including standards, procedures & designs. Ensuring instance and data security complies with SW (Southern Water) policies. Support and mentor others, including building cross functional capability across the team

About You

You will be a motivated and experienced Database Administrator, willing to take ownership of your workloads and contribute to the team. You will be highly knowledgeable in SQL Server and ideally have some experience of either Oracle or PostgreSQL as you may need to support these other areas from time to time. You have a background in or knowledge of the installation and maintenance of SQL Server in a Windows VM (Virtual Machine) Experience of Implementation and monitoring of Availability Groups. Knowledge of security best practi You will have a flexible attitude with the ability to adapt well to changing environments and demands.

Package

This role will be full time Monday to Friday on a shift pattern between 7am and 5.30pm plus on call one week in four.

Southern Water operate a hybrid approach to working between our Durrington office and home.

We are offering a salary of up to £60,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:

• Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution

• Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary

• Health benefits through a Cash Plan

• Two paid community volunteering days a year

• 25 days annual holiday

• Occupational health service

• Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences

• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications

• We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options

Join our Core Technologies team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

Privacy Statement:

Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.

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