Senior Database Administrator

Overview

Job description

IT Services

This is a full-time, open-ended hybrid role, with a minimum of one to two days per week on site at the Loughborough location, with additional on-site attendance during induction and as needed.

Join us and be part of a vibrant community at Loughborough University.

Here’s more about the role and what we’re looking for:

We’re on the lookout for a skilled and proactive Senior Database Administrator to join our DBA team.

As a key member of our Database Team, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of our database environment, supporting the University’s mission by:

• enabling high-quality database services for students, staff, and researchers
• ensuring data integrity, availability, and scalability across critical systems

You’ll take a lead role in the day-to-day management, optimisation, and automation of our Oracle and SQL Server database environments. You’ll also support digital transformation initiatives, contributing to projects that modernise our data platforms - including migration to cloud and implementation of best practice backup, recovery, and security standards.

Universities are one of this country’s greatest assets. We’re educators, employers, innovators and pioneers. We shape culture and society.

At Loughborough, we strive for better, think differently, challenge convention and take action. We are passionate about finding solutions to the major problems faced by society and the planet, and we create opportunities for those with the drive, the ambition, and the determination to apply themselves in the pursuit of better.

Our IT Services department is made up of a wide range of teams all responsible for their own specialism. We are based in Holywell Park, a beautiful area of green campus with a large car park, good public transport links and next to Burleigh Woods. Loughborough IT came top in the National Student Survey for IT resources & facilities in supporting learning for several years in a row.

We have an incredibly supportive culture, an understanding of work/life balance, with hybrid working available. Staff particularly enjoy the flexibility available and the opportunity to contribute to interesting University wide projects and innovative technology solutions. Colleagues have a wide variety of backgrounds from different areas, bringing a broad range of experiences.

• You’ll have extensive experience managing enterprise database systems ( Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server).
• You’ll bring expertise in performance tuning, backup and recovery, and cloud-based database solutions.
• You’ll have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex database and performance issues.
• You’ll have excellent communication and collaboration skills and enjoy sharing your knowledge with colleagues across IT and the wider University.
• You’ll have a degree combined with relevant professional IT qualifications and experience.

With huge amount of variety in the role, there is an opportunity for you to develop and continually grow.

If this sounds like the right place, team and role for you please do get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.