Progress OpenEdge DBA - High Availability & Performance

Intuition IT Solutions Ltd; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuition IT Solutions Ltd in the United Kingdom is hiring a skilled Progress OpenEdge DBA to manage critical databases across development, test and production environments. You will ensure reliability, performance and secure operation of the Progress OpenEdge stack, and contribute to upgrades, patching and migrations in a demanding production setting.

You will monitor health and capacity, tune queries and memory usage, manage backups, disaster recovery and replication, and collaborate with

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Progress OpenEdge DBA in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of backup, restore, disaster recovery, and replication processes.
• Experience with Linux and/or Windows environments.
• Proficient in Progress ABL and SQL for analysis.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support Progress OpenEdge databases across environments (development, test, production).
• Monitor database health, availability, capacity and performance.
• Troubleshoot database failures, outages, locking issues, crashes and connectivity problems.
• Perform database performance tuning including query, index, memory and resource optimization.
• Manage backups, restores, DR, and data replication activities.
• Analyze database logs, alerts and system metrics to identify root causes.
• Support Progress/OpenEdge upgrades, patching, migrations and environment refreshes.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure and development teams to resolve production issues.
• Participate in incident management, root-cause analysis and preventive action planning.
• Automate routine DBA activities using scripting and maintain runbooks.
• Ensure database security, access controls, maintenance and compliance requirements.
• Provide on-call and production support as required.

Skills

Progress OpenEdge

Database administration

Linux/Windows

Scripting

Incident management

Performance tuning

Tools

ABL

SQL

Bash

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Intuition IT Solutions Ltd in the United Kingdom is hiring a skilled Progress OpenEdge DBA to manage critical databases across development, test and production environments. You will ensure reliability, performance and secure operation of the Progress OpenEdge stack, and contribute to upgrades, patching and migrations in a demanding production setting.

You will monitor health and capacity, tune queries and memory usage, manage backups, disaster recovery and replication, and collaborate with