Database Administrator

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

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the UK is seeking a Database Administrator to manage and secure business-critical databases. You will work mainly remotely, with occasional in-office attendance. The role involves performance tuning and optimising large-scale databases while ensuring compliance. Ideal candidates will excel in T-SQL and database environments. Offering a salary of up to £65,000 and potential bonuses, this position provides a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a supportive team environment.

Benefits

Salary up to £65,000

Bonus up to 17%

Stocks vesting every 2 years

Opportunity to develop cloud skills

Predominantly remote working

Qualifications

• Strong T-SQL expertise is essential for the role.
• Proven experience in performance tuning and optimisation of databases.
• Experience supporting high-transaction databases is required.
• Background in data optimisation for high-volume systems is important.
• Experience in critical production environments is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Act as custodian of production database access and governance.
• Ensure databases are online, secure, and maintainable.
• Monitor and optimize database performance proactively.
• Support delivery teams during releases and incident resolution.
• Contribute to database performance tuning and schema changes.

Skills

T-SQL expertise

Database performance tuning

Supporting large-scale databases

Data optimisation

Experience in production-critical environments

Exposure to cloud-based platforms

Job description

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

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Database Administrator to take ownership of a large, business‑critical database estate within a highly regulated environment. This is a hands‑on role where you'll act as the gatekeeper for production databases, ensuring data security, performance, availability, and compliance at all times.

You'll work closely with delivery, application support, and engineering teams to enable safe, well‑governed change while protecting the integrity of production systems. The role offers significant responsibility, high visibility, and the opportunity to work on complex, high‑transaction databases that underpin critical services.

If you're a dependable, SQL‑focused DBA who thrives in regulated environments and takes pride in keeping production systems stable and performant, this role offers real impact and long‑term ownership.

What We're Looking For

• Strong, demonstrable T‑SQL expertise
• Proven experience in database performance tuning and optimisation
• Experience supporting large‑scale, high‑transaction databases
• Strong background in data optimisation for automated, high‑volume systems
• Experience working in production‑critical environments
• Exposure to cloud‑based platforms

Role Overview

As a Database Administrator, you'll be responsible for the stability, security, and performance of production databases across multiple environments. Your remit includes:

• Acting as custodian of production database access, governance, and separation of duties
• Ensuring databases remain online, scalable, robust, and secure
• Owning monitoring, alerting, backups, indexing, and maintenance routines
• Proactively tuning and optimising database performance
• Supporting change and delivery teams during releases and incident resolution
• Contributing to schema changes, indexing strategies, and new database builds
• Supporting database consolidation and migration initiatives

Key Focus Areas

• Safeguard production databases in line with strict regulatory and audit controls
• Own performance monitoring, alerting, backup, and maintenance processes
• Diagnose and resolve performance issues, timeouts, and failures
• Enable delivery teams by reducing database‑related blockers
• Support controlled releases and major production changes

What's in it for You?

• High‑impact role safeguarding mission‑critical production systems
• Exposure to large‑scale, complex database environments
• Opportunity to develop cloud skills over time
• 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 £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 themselves and proud to be Corecom. Externally, we utilise those differences