SC Cleared Senior Database Administrator (AWS Aurora/Amazon RDS/PostgreSQL)

Synergize Consulting Ltd
Croydon, United Kingdom
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 143K

Job location

Croydon, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Databases
Continuous Integration
Data Integrity
Disaster Recovery
Failover
Identity and Access Management
PostgreSQL
Microsoft SQL Server
MongoDB
MySQL
Operational Databases
Performance Tuning
Query Optimization
Redis
Sql Optimization
System Availability
Database Optimization
Indexer
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloudformation
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloudwatch
Terraform

Requirements

Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location

We're recruiting for an experienced SC Cleared Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to join a major public sector programme, supporting the design, optimisation and resilience of critical AWS-hosted database platforms.

This is a hands-on technical role requiring strong expertise across AWS database services, performance tuning and high availability.

  • Clearance required: BPSS + SC (It needs to be an active SC with a government agency used within the last 6 months)

Essential Skills

  • Expert knowledge of AWS Aurora, Amazon RDS and PostgreSQL
  • Strong database architecture, schema design and data modelling experience
  • SQL optimisation, query tuning and execution plan analysis
  • Performance tuning, indexing and database optimisation
  • Backup, recovery, replication, failover and disaster recovery
  • Troubleshooting complex production database environments
  • Data reconciliation and data integrity validation
  • AWS services including IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, VPC and Secrets Manager
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
  • CI/CD experience
  • Excellent stakeholder management and technical leadership skills

Desirable

  • AWS Database Specialty or AWS Solutions Architect certification
  • Experience with MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB or Redis
  • Public Sector or other highly regulated environments

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