Senior Database Administrator

West Recruitment Consulting; City of Parramatta; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

2-year contract

Accrued leave

Job summary

West Technology is seeking a Database Specialist to own the organisation's database and reporting platforms, ensuring security, reliability and scalability to support business operations.

You'll modernise platforms, improve performance, and manage resilience, capacity, disaster recovery and continuous improvement while collaborating with internal teams and external providers across incidents, projects and releases.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Database Administrator with vendor liaison responsibilities.
• Strong SQL and Oracle Database expertise; Oracle certifications highly regarded.
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and related certifications beneficial.
• Experience working within an ITIL environment.
• Solid understanding of cybersecurity, governance and technology risk.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to derive practical solutions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-influencing abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and modernisation of secure, reliable and high-performing database and reporting platforms.
• Shape platform strategy and lifecycle plans, balancing business needs, emerging technology and legacy environments.
• Own platform resilience and performance, including capacity planning, disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Drive continuous improvement and automation, finding ways to make services more reliable, efficient and scalable.
• Lead service delivery and change, working across incidents, projects, releases and technology initiatives with internal teams and external providers.
• Maintain strong governance and security, ensuring compliance, vendor performance, risk management and technical documentation are well managed.

Skills

SQL

Oracle Database

OCI

ITIL

Cybersecurity

Governance

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Tools

Oracle Certifications

Job description

West Technology is partnering with a large, highly recognised Australian organisation that is operating in a rapidly evolving industry.

The organisation is well into a multi-year technology transformation, with significant investment underway to modernise its technology environment and build a market-leading Technology function. This is an opportunity to join that journey at an important time and have a genuine impact on the platforms that keep the business running every day.

About the Role

As the Database specialist, you will take ownership of the organisation's database and reporting platforms, ensuring a secure, reliable, high-performing and able to scale in line with the business. You'll work across both strategic and operational activities from modernising platforms and improving performance to managing resilience, capacity, disaster recovery and continuous improvement.

Your key tasks:

• Lead the design and modernisation of secure, reliable and high-performing database and reporting platforms.
• Shape platform strategy and lifecycle plans, balancing business needs, emerging technology and legacy environments.
• Own platform resilience and performance, including capacity planning, disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Drive continuous improvement and automation, finding ways to make services more reliable, efficient and scalable.
• Lead service delivery and change, working across incidents, projects, releases and technology initiatives with internal teams and external providers.
• Maintain strong governance and security, ensuring compliance, vendor performance, risk management and technical documentation are well managed.

About You

• You have extensive experience as a Database Administrator that saw you as the technical lead to liaise with external vendors.
• Strong experience with SQL and Oracle Database. Oracle certifications will be highly regarded.
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Azure/OCI certifications will be highly regarded.
• Experience working within an ITIL environment.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity, governance and technology risk.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify issues and develop practical solutions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms.
• A proactive, collaborative approach with the confidence to influence stakeholders, take ownership and drive outcomes.

What’s in it for you?

• 2 year, fixed term contract- Accrue leave and Benefits
• This is a great opportunity to join a large-scale Australian organisation at a pivotal point in its technology journey.
• You'll be working on business-critical platforms, contributing to a major transformation program and helping shape the future direction of the organisation's database and reporting environment.
• If you're looking for a role where your technical expertise can make a real difference, we'd like to hear from you.