Are you ready to play a key role in propelling organisations on their data driven journey?

Sword builds foundations across platforms, data, and applications and our people have a shared passion for technology and solving complex business challenges for our customers.

Our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.

If these values are important to you, and you are looking to take the next step in your career with a growing company, we’re delighted to share a newly created opportunity to join the Sword team in the role of Database Administrator.

The ideal candidate will have experience in maintaining Oracle and SQL estates for our clients and will provide expert knowledge and guidance to other team members on critical issues. It would be advantageous to have experience in setting up and monitoring the performance of a large-scale environment with potentially numerous instances.

Our DBA will be part of our Managed Services team and will be responsible for providing database administration services to various clients:

• Supporting the entire application development to Database Management process.
• Ensuring the availability of client databases.

What this DBA role will look like :

• Installation, configuration and upgrading of Oracle Software SQL Server Databases and related products according to established best practices.
• Establish and maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures to ensure business continuity in a DR situation.
• Plan growth and changes (capacity planning) while working as part of a team and provide 7x24 support when required to ensure database availability and scalability.
• Perform general technical trouble shooting and proffer solutions to development teams, project teams and business analysts
• Patch Management and Version Control including Interfacing with Vendors (Oracle, Microsoft etc.) to prevent security breaches and keep software up to date.
• Setup and maintain documentation and technical guides to ensure standardisation across systems and databases.

Requirements

• In depth understanding of the Oracle database, SQL Server databases, related utilities and tools

• Sufficient Understanding of Database concepts to be able to implement different RDBMS technologies.

• Good understanding of the operating systems; Windows and Unix

• Knowledge of Oracle and SQL Server backup and recovery scenarios

• Ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines

• Experience in database change management and data management through the various stages of the development

life cycle

• Presentation/Communication Skills

• Oracle Certified or MCP Certified

Benefits

Our people are supported and encouraged to develop their career with Sword through their own personal learning and development plan, alongside a competitive salary, pension, private health, wellbeing and insurance schemes, a flexible approach to working, and employee assistance programme.

Sword is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.  All qualified applicants receive equal consideration for employment regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.