Progress OpenEdge DBA — Production Stability & Performance

Infoplus Technologies UK Limited; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Infoplus Technologies UK Limited is seeking an experienced Progress OpenEdge DBA to support a critical application. The role covers database administration, performance tuning, backups, security, and on‑call production support across dev, test, and production environments.

You will troubleshoot complex incidents, optimize performance, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure system stability and DR readiness. Experience with OpenEdge and scripting is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a Progress OpenEdge DBA in production environments.
• Hands-on expertise in Progress database architecture, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting.
• Proven experience handling database failures and high-priority production incidents.
• Experience with backup, recovery, replication, and DR processes.
• Experience with Linux and/or Windows environments.
• Familiarity with SQL for analysis and OpenEdge ABL is a plus.
• Experience in incident, change, and problem management.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support Progress OpenEdge databases across dev, test, and prod environments.
• Monitor health, availability, capacity, and performance.
• Troubleshoot failures, outages, locking issues, crashes, and connectivity problems.
• Perform performance tuning: queries, indexes, memory, and resources.
• Manage backups, restores, DR, and replication.
• Analyze logs and metrics to identify root causes.
• Support upgrades, patches, migrations, and environment refreshes.
• Collaborate with app, infra, and dev teams to resolve production issues.
• Participate in incident management and preventive action planning.
• Automate routine DBA tasks and maintain runbooks.
• Ensure security, access controls, maintenance and compliance.

Skills

Progress OpenEdge

DBA experience

Database tuning

Automation scripting

Linux/Windows

Incident management

Root-cause analysis

Monitoring tools

SQL/ABL knowledge

On-call support

Communication skills

Tools

Bash

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Infoplus Technologies UK Limited is seeking an experienced Progress OpenEdge DBA to support a critical application. The role covers database administration, performance tuning, backups, security, and on‑call production support across dev, test, and production environments.

You will troubleshoot complex incidents, optimize performance, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure system stability and DR readiness. Experience with OpenEdge and scripting is essential.