Database Administrator

Job Title: DBA Administrator

Location: Solihull

Hours: Permanent - Full Time

A bit about us:

At BNP Paribas Personal Finance, we're part of a global bank and are proud to be a Top Employer UK, providing a great place to work in an open and inclusive environment.

We're here to provide simple and straightforward consumer finance solutions and we work with many well-known retailers and brands to help their customers finance their purchases in a responsible way.

We care about making a positive impact for our colleagues, customers, partners and the wider community. That's why we live by our values of we're positive, we're brave and we own it.

The Role:

To provide comprehensive support for the build, maintenance, monitoring and improvement of in-house bespoke and third party provided PostgreSQL Server solutions.

You will be a valuable addition to a small team, who are looking to expand due to business growth.

Key Responsibilities:

Support and maintain the PostgreSQL estate in a cloud environment.

Take a proactive role in projects, providing PostgreSQL expertise to implement solutions that meet company/industry standards and best practices.

Support the business during its move from an on-premise SQL Server environment to PostgreSQL in cloud.

Ensure optimal database performance through proactive monitoring, analysis, tuning and optimisation.

Maintain database security in line with legislation and internal policies

Work with the IT Team to establish robust Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans

Participate in the annual Disaster Recovery test

Skills & Attributes:

Knowledge of relational database design fundamentals

Knowledge of database components and capabilities

Understanding of Continuity Mgmt including backups, Incident Mgmt, Problem Mgmt, Change Mgmt and Capacity Mgmt

Knowledge of HA and DR

Knowledge of database best practices

A breadth of experience in Production database installation, support and administration

Experience with PostgreSQL 15

Service driven and adept at finding viable solutions to issues

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