Database Administrator I

A bit about us

Our technicians handle onsite and remote support for medical offices, accounting firms and manufacturers on fixed monthly contracts. Birmingham Technology Group provides managed IT for offices of 10 to 200 users: help desk, patching, backups, Microsoft 365 and firewall management.

The position

Birmingham Technology Group has an opening for a Database Administrator I. The Infrastructure team supports about 200 production databases. We need someone who can handle both daily operations and longer projects. DBA role covering on-premises and cloud databases, including a planned move to Amazon RDS. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in Pakistan, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. Core hours are 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM UK time. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Main duties

• Respond to after-hours database incidents on a rotating schedule
• Document configurations, runbooks and disaster recovery procedures
• Control access with roles, least privilege and audited service accounts
• Upgrade major database versions with minimal downtime
• Manage backups and run regular restore tests against RPO and RTO targets
• Support audits with evidence for encryption, access reviews and backup retention
• Tune queries, indexes and statistics using execution plans and Query Store

What we're looking for

• 0-2 years of hands-on database administration experience
• Willingness to work occasional nights and weekends for maintenance windows
• Familiarity with SAN storage and VMware virtualization basics

Preferred

• MongoDB or Redis

Perks and benefits

• Two weeks of paid leave at year end
• Public holidays observed per your country
• Annual team retreat
• Annual salary review
• Paid sick days

We review applications as they come in.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Birmingham Technology Group.