Cloud DBA for Enterprise Databases (AWS)

Universal Music Holdings Ltd; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Universal Music Holdings Ltd is seeking a Database Administrator for the Royalty and Copyright Product Team. The role ensures availability, security, performance, and integrity of databases; manages production and non-production environments; supports releases and disaster recovery strategies.

You will optimise SQL, enhance security, and collaborate with engineers and business teams to deliver reliable, scalable services for royalty accounting platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL and database administration experience.
• Experience with performance tuning and optimisation.
• Knowledge of backup, replication, and high availability technologies.
• Experience implementing AWS CloudWatch alerts and cloud database services (Aurora RDS).
• Scripting with PowerShell, Python, or Bash.

Responsibilities

• Administer enterprise database platforms (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server).
• Monitor database health, availability, performance, and capacity.
• Implement backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Manage database security, access control, and compliance.
• Optimise SQL queries and database performance.
• Support application deployments and production releases.
• Automate routine administration tasks.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, and infrastructure teams.

Skills

SQL DBA

Performance tuning

Backup & DR

AWS CloudWatch

AWS/Aurora RDS

Scripting (PowerShell/Python/Bash)

Stakeholder comms

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Job description

Universal Music Holdings Ltd is seeking a Database Administrator for the Royalty and Copyright Product Team. The role ensures availability, security, performance, and integrity of databases; manages production and non-production environments; supports releases and disaster recovery strategies.

You will optimise SQL, enhance security, and collaborate with engineers and business teams to deliver reliable, scalable services for royalty accounting platforms.