Senior Database Administrator

At The Craneware Group, we build technology that helps healthcare organisations across the US make smarter, more sustainable decisions. Our platforms rely on highly available, high-performance data systems, and we're looking for an experienced Senior Database Administrator to help ensure our databases remain secure, resilient, and future-ready.

Hybrid working: This UK-based role follows a hybrid model, with around 40% of time per month spent in our Edinburgh office.

The Team You'll join our Shared Data Services team, acting as a technical leader responsible for the performance, availability, security, and evolution of our database platforms across on-prem and cloud environments.

This is a hands-on senior technical role, with real influence over database architecture, performance, and cloud migration strategy.

You'll support business-critical production and development databases, take ownership of complex issues, and play a key role in shaping our move towards cloud-based database platforms. While not a line management role, you'll act as a technical mentor and advisor to DBAs, developers, and wider engineering teams.

What you'll be responsible for

• Acting as a technical leader within the Database Administration team
• Supporting and optimising production and development databases across on-prem, private, and public cloud environments
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and recoverability of all database platforms
• Leading investigations into complex production database issues
• Designing and contributing to cloud migration strategies and future-state database architecture
• Advising senior IT leadership on database platform architecture, capacity planning, and budgets
• Overseeing database upgrades, patching, tuning, and performance monitoring
• Mentoring DBAs and developers on best practices, efficient coding, and performance optimisation
• Contributing to automation through scripting, monitoring, and alerting
• Participating in an on-call rotation, taking ownership of incidents impacting customer-facing systems

You Will Be

• Acting as a technical leader within the Database Administration team
• Supporting and optimising production and development databases across on-prem, private, and public cloud environments
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and recoverability of all database platforms
• Leading investigations into complex production database issues
• Designing and contributing to cloud migration strategies and future-state database architecture
• Advising senior IT leadership on database platform architecture, capacity planning, and budgets
• Overseeing database upgrades, patching, tuning, and performance monitoring
• Mentoring DBAs and developers on best practices, efficient coding, and performance optimisation
• Contributing to automation through scripting, monitoring, and alerting
• Participating in an on-call rotation, taking ownership of incidents impacting customer-facing systems

• Expert-level Oracle DBA experience
• Strong expertise in database tuning and performance monitoring
• Experience working with Very Large Databases (VLDBs)
• Hands-on experience with:

• Oracle Exadata
• Oracle Cloud
• Oracle GoldenGate
• Oracle Active Data Guard
• OEM / Grid Control

• Proven experience with database migrations, upgrades, and patching
• Strong SQL and PL/SQL performance tuning experience
• Experience with SingleStore and/or Microsoft SQL Server
• Scripting experience (e.g. shell scripting) for automation and monitoring
• Comfortable working across Linux/Unix and Windows environments, * Detail-oriented and comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy
• Confident influencing others and promoting best practices
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, especially in high-pressure production environments
• Able to collaborate across engineering, DevOps, platform, and leadership teams
• Comfortable working in environments requiring high levels of data security and compliance (e.g. PHI awareness), * Typically 5-7+ years' experience in database administration or a closely related field
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience, * Work on mission-critical healthcare platforms with real-world impact
• Influence database strategy and cloud migration, not just day-to-day support
• A strong, collaborative engineering culture with technical depth
• Hybrid working that balances flexibility and collaboration
• Long-term platform investment and meaningful technical challenges