Senior SQL DBA - 24/7 High Availability & Security

Warwickshire Police; Leek Wootton; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Warwickshire Police is seeking a SQL Database Administrator to maintain and secure databases, ensuring integrity, recoverability, and availability for 24/7 policing operations. The role involves monitoring performance, implementing backups, and enforcing data governance and security controls.

Based in Leek Wootton, the position requires on-call availability and regular travel within Warwickshire. A Grade H salary reflects senior responsibilities and security clearances in a critical public

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant SQL Database Administration experience.
• Experience in 24/7 mission-critical SQL Server environments.
• Backing up, restoring and DR testing to validate recoverability.
• Performance tuning for large transactional DBs and workloads.
• Experience with ITIL change and incident processes.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support SQL Server databases including RM System.
• Ensure performance, stability and capacity to meet 24/7 policing needs.
• Enforce security, encryption and access controls per policy.
• Ensure data governance, retention and audit compliance.
• Design and test high availability and DR solutions.
• Support system integrations with internal and national systems.
• Manage changes through CAB and formal change control.
• Maintain runbooks, logs and audit evidence.

Skills

SQL Server tuning

Incident management

Audit readiness

Access control

Documentation

Education

ITIL Foundation

Tools

TempDB tooling

Job description

Warwickshire Police is seeking a SQL Database Administrator to maintain and secure databases, ensuring integrity, recoverability, and availability for 24/7 policing operations. The role involves monitoring performance, implementing backups, and enforcing data governance and security controls.

Based in Leek Wootton, the position requires on-call availability and regular travel within Warwickshire. A Grade H salary reflects senior responsibilities and security clearances in a critical public