Database Administrator - High-Availability, Cloud & Performance

Universal Music Group UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Universal Music Group UK is seeking a Database Administrator (DBA) to safeguard the availability, security and performance of our databases supporting Royalty and Copyright platforms. The role requires managing production and non-production environments, optimising queries, and collaborating with engineering and business teams.

You will implement backup and disaster recovery strategies, ensure compliance, and support deployments and releases.

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.
• Experience with AWS Aurora RDS or cloud database services.
• Scripting with PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• Strong troubleshooting and stakeholder communication skills.

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 Database Admin

Performance Tuning

Backup & DR

AWS CloudWatch

Aurora RDS

Scripting: PowerShell/Python/Bash

Troubleshooting

Job description

Universal Music Group UK is seeking a Database Administrator (DBA) to safeguard the availability, security and performance of our databases supporting Royalty and Copyright platforms. The role requires managing production and non-production environments, optimising queries, and collaborating with engineering and business teams.

You will implement backup and disaster recovery strategies, ensure compliance, and support deployments and releases.