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On behalf of AWE, we are looking for a Senior Database Administrator (Oracle and MS SQL) Inside IR35 for a 12 Month contract based in Aldermaston, Reading.

As a Senior Database Administrator (Oracle and MS SQL) your main responsibilities will be:

• Full life cycle support of Oracle (19c) and MS SQL (2016, 2019 & 2022) environments.
• Provide advice and recommendations on database architecture, design, and implementation.
• Develop, support, and communicate database policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Design and implement database solutions that meet customer requirements for reliability, availability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Install, upgrade and test database software, in addition to troubleshooting database issues.
• Responsible for development of database backup and recovery procedures, ensuring data integrity and identifying potential data errors.
• Plan and perform disaster recovery testing with database restoration in alternate locations.
• Assist application development teams with planning and implementations, including review and approval of database schema changes, procedures and query optimizations.
• Maintain the performance of the database estate.
• Respond to incidents / changes within published SLA's to maintain/resume service.
• Work with 3rd party suppliers as necessary to meet operational demands.
• Collaborate with other IT teams to ensure integration of databases with other systems and applications is compliant with operational standards and best practice.
• The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.

Key Accountabilities:

DV Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.

• Provide primary support for Oracle and MS SQL database environments including daily operations, backup and recovery, performance monitoring and tuning, and production support.
• Development, documentation, implementation and maintenance of operational policies / best practice for the database estate.
• Continual process improvement with a focus on automation of repeatable tasks.
• Identification of self-service opportunities and ownership of implementation.
• Ensuring changes to databases and services align with operational standards, service level agreements and business requirements.
• Design and implementation of new database environments.
• Strategic planning, capacity planning, and implementing best practices for database management.
• Introduce and deploy new database technology.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, AWE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces Covenant

AWE guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".