Senior Database Administrator (Private Cloud Infrastructure)

Lloyds Banking Group; Manchester; On-site; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual bonus award based on performance

Share schemes, including free shares

Discounts on shopping

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Job summary

A leading UK financial institution is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to join their Private Cloud Platform. This role involves engaging with the business for optimal solution design and working with Oracle database technologies. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in database platform engineering, a commitment to high-quality solutions, and mentoring experience. The position offers a hybrid working model based in Manchester or Leeds, with a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Expertise in private cloud environments and Oracle Database technologies is required.
• Experience in supporting and managing enterprise systems preferred.
• Ability to mentor colleagues and support their technical development.

Responsibilities

• Understand business needs for optimal solution designs.
• Resolve technical impediments and bottlenecks.
• Contribute to service design and best practices.

Skills

Oracle Database 12c, 19c, 23/26ai proficiency

Oracle Cloud at Customer/OCI

Agile methodologies

Backup/Restore and Disaster recovery processes

Performance Optimisation

DevOps, Automation Tooling

Mentoring and coaching

Problem-solving skills

Job description

This range is provided by Lloyds Banking Group. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

Direct message the job poster from Lloyds Banking Group

LOCATION: Leeds or Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

We are modernising with cloud, a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers and easy, modern and green for developers.

We're looking for a Senior Database Administrator to join our Private Cloud Platform. You'll have a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team with the purpose of driving our tech modernisation agenda and enable us to become the biggest Fintech in the UK.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in database platform engineering and a passion for technology. Commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions is a must. You will have worked hands‑on with Oracle database technologies and bring your expertise to our specialist team.

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever‑changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

Job Description

On a day to day basis you will:

• Understand the business area to facilitate the best solution design with team members and product owners
• Be environment aware, identify technical impediments / bottlenecks and work directly to resolve
• Be technology agnostic and willing to adapt approach in pursuit of the best solution
• Be anchored to core engineering area and carry the ability to test and learn
• Understand Systems Thinking and Service Design to mitigate reactive solutions that leads to further technical debt
• Understand agile and the relationship between agile definitions and automated delivery
• Be passionate about automating everything
• Be industry aware and understand the importance of new technical approaches to evolve solutions and the experience of the team
• Can mentor and coach others, always sharing knowledge for the benefit of the team

What you'll need

• Expertise in a private cloud environment specialising in one or more of the following technologies: Oracle Database 12c, 19c, 23/26ai. Oracle OCI Console, OEM
• Oracle Cloud at Customer/OCI/Oracle Database@Azure
• Oracle Autonomous Database
• Supporting, managing and designing enterprise systems, including HA/DR solutions
• Agile ways of working
• Designing or contributing to solutions for a Private Cloud Environment
• Backup / Restore and Disaster recovery processes
• Performance Optimisation
• Technical fault‑finding Level 3 & 4
• Security best practises and compliance standards
• Mentoring Colleagues and supporting technical development of others
• Service design and associated methodologies
• Problem solving and communication skills
• Industry based best practice

Can be any of these additional experiences which would be really useful: DevOps, Automation Tooling (Chef/Terraform/Ansible)

Interviews for this role will take place on the 1st and 2nd December 2025.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups.

We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide‑ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Industries

• Data Infrastructure and Analytics