Role: Senior Database Administrator (Oracle & MS SQL)
Contracting Authority: Government
Contract Length: 12 Months
Location: Aldermaston
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate: Up to £67.49 per hour
Clearance: DV Clearance
An exciting opportunity has become available with our prestigious client who is a prominent government department. The client is seeking an experienced Senior Database Administrator (Oracle & MS SQL) to join their welcoming team.

• Full life cycle support of Oracle (19c) and MS SQL (2016, 2019 & 2022) environments.
• Provide advice and recommendations on database architecture, design, and implementation.
• Develop, support, and communicate database policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Design and implement database solutions that meet customer requirements for reliability, availability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Install, upgrade and test database software, in addition to troubleshooting database issues.
• Responsible for development of database backup and recovery procedures, ensuring data integrity and identifying potential data errors.
• Plan and perform disaster recovery testing with database restoration in alternate locations.
• Assist application development teams with planning and implementations, including review and approval of database schema changes, procedures and query optimizations.
• Maintain the performance of the database estate.
• Respond to incidents / changes within published SLA’s to maintain/resume service
• Work with 3rd party suppliers as necessary to meet operational demands.
• Collaborate with other IT teams to ensure integration of databases with other systems and applications is compliant with operational standards and best practice.
• The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time