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# Principal Database Administrator Fully Remote

- **Company:** Interact Consulting Limited
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £80,000 - £90,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Databases, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Disaster Recovery, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Azure, MongoDB, NoSQL, Operational Databases, Performance Tuning, Windows PowerShell, SQL Databases, Transact-SQL, Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, Indexer, Cosmos DB, Redgate
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/principal-database-administrator-fully-remote/57479348

## About the Role

* 8+ years' hands-on SQL Server DBA experience, including deep performance tuning, indexing, execution plans, and troubleshooting at scale.
 * Strong Azure SQL experience, including deployment-tier selection and migration.
 * Proven experience defining standards and long-term direction for a DBA function-not just running day-to-day operations.
 * Experience owning backup, restore, and DR for business-critical, 24x7 systems.
 * T-SQL and PowerShell automation; Redgate SQL Compare/SQL Toolbelt or equivalent.
 * Ideally, line-management experience and exposure to NoSQL (Cosmos DB or MongoDB), data warehousing, and ETL.

## Description

We're hiring a Principal DBA to lead and hands-on-run a 300+ production database estate-predominantly SQL Server on Azure, with a growing Cosmos DB footprint-supporting a market-leading SaaS platform 24x7.

This is a true player-coach role: you'll set the long-term database strategy and standards, improve reliability, performance, and security across the estate, and line-manage and develop our existing DBA team. You'll be the senior technical authority for database architecture, risk, and operations.

What you'll do

 * Own the strategy, standards, and roadmap for the database function across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Cosmos DB.
 * Get hands-on with a live production estate: performance tuning, configuration, backups, restores, disaster recovery, incident response, and release support.
 * Right-size and optimise Azure SQL deployments across General Purpose, Business Critical, and Hyperscale-balancing performance, availability, and cost.
 * Replace manual, undocumented changes with repeatable, auditable, well-monitored processes.
 * Lead, mentor, and grow a small DBA team.
 * Shape our emerging data platform direction, including Cosmos DB, Snowflake, and Azure Data Factory.