Lead Database Administrator

About the company:

Midland Computer Services is a managed services provider with 510 employees, supporting more than 1,500 client organisations across the UK. Headquartered in London, the company has grown since 2007 by acquiring regional IT providers.

Position summary:

Looking for a Lead Database Administrator who wants to stay somewhere for a while. We need someone who checks the backups before anyone asks, and who can explain a query plan to a developer. This hire will own performance tuning, high availability and restore testing for our core business systems. The company is based in London, the UK. The team is distributed across several countries. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in India, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. Working hours overlap with UK business hours. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure and patch SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL or MySQL instances.
• Manage backups and run regular restore tests against RPO and RTO targets.
• Set up and maintain Always On availability groups, Data Guard or streaming replication.
• Upgrade major database versions with minimal downtime.
• Plan capacity for storage, memory and CPU growth.

Minimum qualifications:

• Proven query and index tuning ability.
• Willingness to work occasional nights and weekends for maintenance windows.
• Strong T-SQL, PL/SQL or PL/pgSQL.
• Familiarity with SAN storage and VMware virtualization basics.

Preferred:

• MongoDB or Redis.

What you get:

Pay: ₹43-58 LPA

• Monthly internet allowance.
• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end.
• Paid sick days.
• Performance bonus.
• Flexible hours.
• Home office setup budget.

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Midland Computer Services.