Database (Administrator) Engineer

Spirax-Sarco Engineering; Skelmersdale; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading industrial engineering group in the UK is seeking a Database Engineer to optimize data platforms that support IIoT and Operational Technology environments. The role includes overseeing database operations, migrations, and security, ensuring reliable performance and compliance. Candidates should have strong experience with SQL Server, cloud platforms like Azure and AWS, and a deep understanding of secure data architecture. This position offers competitive salary, excellent benefits, and a commitment to an inclusive work environment.

Benefits

27 days holiday allowance

Private healthcare

Enhanced pension plan

Life assurance

Flexible working

Discretionary bonus

Qualifications

• Significant experience in managing database operations in a technical environment.
• Strong capability in schema design, backups, and secure data handling.
• Experience supporting secure customer data migration projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver secure data transformations and database operations.
• Oversee database security, access control, and integrity.
• Monitor and tune database performance for efficiency.

Skills

SQL Server Management Studio

ETL processes

Performance tuning

Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)

Agile practices

Collaboration

Job description

Database (Administrator) Engineer

We are seeking a hands‑on Database Engineer to own and optimise data platforms supporting our IIoT and Operational Technology environment, ensuring secure data flow, ensuring platforms perform reliably, scale effectively and meet business and operational requirements. The role sits within our OT and Infrastructure Operations and is responsible for database operations, migrations and performance optimisation across global industrial systems, thus requiring a candidate who has proven experience managing complex database platforms and a strong understanding of secure data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver secure data transformations and database operations across the estate, ensuring accuracy, reliability and availability.
• Manage day‑to‑day database activities, including queries, reporting and user support, to meet stakeholder needs.
• Oversee database security, access control and integrity, ensuring platforms remain robust and compliant.
• Maintain and optimise schemas, backups, functions, procedures and related services, with a focus on performance and resilience.
• Monitor and tune database performance to drive efficiency and continuous improvement.
• Support secure customer data migration projects, ensuring effective planning, execution and validation.
• Document database structures, data flows and ingress and egress operations to maintain clarity and traceability.
• Work closely with OT and Infrastructure Operations teams to support shared initiatives and operational requirements.
• Contribute to tenders, provide cost inputs, and track operational expenditure related to data services.
• Maintain oversight of the database environment, using monitoring and reporting to ensure stability and availability.
• Ensure adherence to data protection standards across all activities and systems.
• Support Development with testing, recommendations and operational readiness for new features and releases.
• Provide operational support to both OT and Infrastructure Operations teams, contributing expertise and guidance where required.

Qualifications

• Company Core Values at all times.
• Significant experience in managing database operations, including administration, monitoring and optimisation, within a demanding technical environment.
• Highly skilled in SQL Server Management Studio and associated tooling, with strong capability in schema design, ETL processes and secure data handling.
• Proven expertise in performance tuning, profiling, backups and recovery, including deep understanding of T‑SQL, transaction logs and restore procedures.
• Demonstrable experience in delivering data transformations, imports and exports, and producing accurate queries and reports for stakeholders.
• Confident working with cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS, particularly in relation to database services and integration with on‑premise systems.
• Experience supporting secure customer data migration projects, ensuring accuracy, compliance and operational continuity.
• Strong understanding of database security, access management and data protection standards.
• Familiarity with Agile and Scrum practices, and comfortable using project management tools to track delivery and priorities.
• Excellent collaboration skills, able to work effectively with OT, Infrastructure Operations and Development teams.
• Able to manage time and workload effectively, maintaining accuracy and control under pressure.
• Acts with integrity, welcomes feedback and contributes positively to continuous improvement.

The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi‑national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender‑neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause‑friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments.

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.