Cloud Database Administrator

Corecom Consulting; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT consulting firm is looking for a Cloud Database Administrator in Leeds. In this role, you'll ensure the reliability, performance, and security of AWS-hosted databases while collaborating with various teams for operational resilience. The ideal candidate has strong T-SQL skills, experience with database performance tuning and AWS databases, and a solid understanding of backups and security. This role also offers a competitive salary of £55,000 - £65,000, occasional on-site attendance, and additional benefits including a bonus up to 17%.

Benefits

Bonus up to 17%

Stocks vesting every 2 years

Opportunity for remote working

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cloud database environments.
• Strong understanding of AWS RDS and database management.
• Experience managing production database availability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability and performance of cloud-hosted production databases.
• Manage AWS RDS databases and monitor performance.
• Support delivery teams during releases and incidents.

Skills

Strong T-SQL expertise

SQL database administration

Database performance tuning

Hands-on experience with AWS databases

Understanding of backups and security

Experience with high-transaction systems

Job description

Cloud Database Administrator / Leeds (1-2x per month in the office) / £55,000 - £65,000

About the Role

We're seeking a Cloud Database Administrator to help safeguard and evolve a large, AWS-hosted database estate supporting critical business systems in a regulated environment. This is a hands‑on role combining strong SQL fundamentals with practical experience operating databases in the cloud.

You'll own the reliability, performance, and security of production databases hosted in AWS, working closely with infrastructure, delivery, and application teams to ensure controlled change and operational resilience.

This role offers strong exposure to AWS-based database platforms, with responsibility and influence across a complex, enterprise‑scale environment.

What We're Looking For

• Strong T‑SQL expertise and SQL database administration background
• Proven experience in database performance tuning and optimisation
• Hands‑on experience with AWS‑hosted databases (ideally RDS)
• Experience supporting production databases in cloud environments
• Strong understanding of backups, restores, monitoring, and security
• Experience working with high‑transaction, automated systems

Role Overview

As a Cloud Database Administrator, you'll take ownership of cloud‑hosted production databases, ensuring availability, performance, and resilience across multiple environments. Your remit includes:

• Acting as gatekeeper for production cloud databases
• Managing and optimising AWS RDS‑hosted databases
• Owning monitoring, alerting, backups, and maintenance routines
• Performance tuning and optimisation of high‑volume workloads
• Supporting delivery teams during releases, upgrades, and incidents
• Contributing to schema changes, indexing strategies, and new database builds
• Supporting database migrations, consolidation, and cloud upgrade initiatives

What's in it for You?

• High‑impact role safeguarding mission‑critical production systems
• Exposure to large‑scale, complex database environments
• Opportunity to further develop cloud skills
• Organisation actively adopting modern tooling and AI‑driven productivity improvements
• Predominantly remote working with occasional on‑site attendance (approx. 15 days per year)
• Salary up to £55,000‑£65,000
• Bonus up to 17% plus stocks that vest every 2 years

Applications for the role close on Friday 23rd January.

If this role excites you and you want to make a tangible impact, please get in touch with Dominic Brown or send your CV.

At Corecom, we don't just accept differences, we celebrate them and thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our clients and our candidates. Internally, we thrive from our differences and want our employees to be proud to be themselves and proud to be Corecom. Externally, we utilise those differences.