Database Administrator – AWS Cloud & Performance

Universal Music Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Universal Music Group’s Royalty and Copyright Product Team is seeking a Database Administrator to ensure availability, security, performance and integrity of critical databases. The role involves managing production and non-production environments, optimizing queries, and supporting releases with close collaboration across engineering and business teams.

The candidate will implement backup and disaster recovery strategies, monitor health and capacity, and handle security and compliance.

Qualifications

• Must have strong SQL and database administration experience.
• Experience with backup, recovery, high availability technologies.
• Experience with AWS CloudWatch alerts and cloud database services (Aurora/RDS).
• Scripting skills in 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 DR solutions.
• Manage database security, access control and compliance.
• Optimize SQL queries and database performance.
• Support application deployments and production releases.
• Automate routine administration tasks.
• Collaborate with developers, architects and infrastructure teams.

Skills

SQL

Performance tuning

Backup & high availability

AWS Cloud Watch

Aurora / RDS

Scripting (PowerShell/Python/Bash)

Troubleshooting

Stakeholder communication

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Job description

Universal Music Group’s Royalty and Copyright Product Team is seeking a Database Administrator to ensure availability, security, performance and integrity of critical databases. The role involves managing production and non-production environments, optimizing queries, and supporting releases with close collaboration across engineering and business teams.

The candidate will implement backup and disaster recovery strategies, monitor health and capacity, and handle security and compliance.