PostgreSQL DBA

Salary: £60,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:

• Were seeking strong hands-on DBA experience across PostgreSQL and Oracle.
• We require recent, meaningful PostgreSQL DBA experience beyond basic exposure, installation, or support-level knowledge.
• We require hands-on experience with Oracle 19c or 21c.
• We require PostgreSQL performance optimisation experience, including index tuning, execution plan analysis, query optimisation, sharding, and partitioning.
• We require experience managing database clusters and failover.
• We require strong data modelling experience.
• We require experience working closely with development and infrastructure teams.
• Experience with PostgreSQL extensions such as pgvector, PostGIS, or AGE would be beneficial.
• Additional MSSQL experience would be useful.
• The source specifies SC clearance as preferred and also as a minimum, with DV targeted.
• We require single British nationality and the ability to meet UK residency criteria for security clearance.

Responsibilities:

• We expect you to take ownership of application database environments across cloud and on-premise environments, working with developers, data pipeline engineers, data scientists, and infrastructure teams.
• Manage PostgreSQL database clusters across multiple environments.
• Monitor, tune, and optimise PostgreSQL database performance.
• Administer and maintain Oracle 19c or 21c databases.
• Manage data migrations between database instances, including offline environments.
• Own data models and the lifecycle of data within the database.
• Design, create, and manage schemas, tables, and views.
• Optimise performance through index tuning, execution plan analysis, query optimisation, and partitioning.
• Manage database clusters and failover strategies.
• Define and implement backup and recovery strategies.
• Manage database security, roles, permissions, and RLS controls.
• Work with infrastructure teams on database installation and patching.
• Work with data pipeline engineers and data scientists to ingest a wide range of data sources.
• Apply best practices for storing JSON objects in PostgreSQL.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• Support
• JSON
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• Security

More:

Were a leading technology organisation hiring a permanent Database Administrator for our team in Northwood, London. The salary is £55,000–£60,000 plus benefits, and the working pattern is hybrid, with a minimum of two days per week in the office. This opportunity is suited to either a PostgreSQL DBA with strong Oracle experience or an Oracle DBA with recent, meaningful PostgreSQL DBA experience. Candidates will need to demonstrate hands-on experience across both technologies in a technical interview.

last updated 39 week of 2026