Senior Database Administrator

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Data Management Services department for a Lead Database Administrator. This role would be suitable for a database administrator who is looking to further progress their career or, existing senior database administrators wanting to work with data at a very large scale, in order to help improve outcomes for patients and support the wider NHS.

The post holder will contribute to the performance of Database Operations, the wider IT Services community and SCW by actively engaging with peers. They will also need to understand and comply with existing RDBMS strategies., The holder of the role will be expected to support the Database Operations Team and as such must have knowledge and experience of the following:

• Working with SQL Server 2008 upwards


• High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server


• Performance Tuning and Optimization


• Backup Solutions


• Working with Windows server, including Active Directory


• Physical and Virtual Server infrastructure


• Best operational practices of a scale environment
  
  This is an exciting time to join NHS South, Central and West.


We are one of the largest commissioning support units in the country, providing support and professional expertise for over 70 NHS and non-NHS customers, including integrated care boards, NHS England, local authorities, foundation trusts, social enterprises and other health-related organisations.

We're supporting clients whose vision and quest for innovation requires us to be flexible, adaptable and open to adventure; giving us the freedom to work in new ways, looking at things from a different angle and challenging the norm.

We are committed to attracting and retaining the best people in order to provide the best possible services to our customers. Our staff enjoy challenging, rewarding roles, supporting our customers to improve their local health and care services.

We want our people to fulfil their potential so we offer a wide range of training, opportunities to gain qualifications as well as access to coaching and mentoring schemes.

If you join us, we will value your experience, your contribution and we will give you the knowledge to succeed as part of your specialist team and as part of our organisation.