Database Administrator I

Job Title: Database Administrator I

Location: Remote (UK)

Salary: £275 - £325 day rate

Hours: 39 hours per week

Contract: 6-month contract

Help desk calls are answered from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., with an on-call tech covering nights and weekends. From the London office, we cover clients within about a two-hour drive and support remote sites through RMM tools. Founded in 2017, we now have 90 employees.

Overview

This hire will own performance tuning, high availability and restore testing for our core business systems. This role is fully remote within the UK. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Key responsibilities

• Install, configure and patch SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL or MySQL instances
• Upgrade major database versions with minimal downtime
• Automate maintenance with PowerShell, SQL Agent jobs or Bash
• Plan capacity for storage, memory and CPU growth
• Review and deploy schema changes from development teams
• Migrate databases to Amazon RDS, Aurora or Azure SQL

About you

• 1+ years of hands-on database administration experience
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery setups
• Scripting with PowerShell, Bash or Python
• Willingness to work occasional nights and weekends for maintenance windows
• Proven query and index tuning ability
• Understanding of Windows Server and Linux as database hosts

Compensation and benefits

• Flexible working hours

No agencies please.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at LND IT.