SQL Database Administrator – £300-350 per day, Outside IR35 – Fully Remote, UK

SQL Database Administrator
Initially 3 months (extensions likely 12+ months)
£300-350 per day, Outside IR35
Fully Remote
Must be UK based

Unify is proud to be exclusively representing an expanding digital transformation consultancy, who are looking to engage the services of an experienced SQL Database Administrator, on an Outside IR35 basis.

We’re looking for a DBA with strong PostGresql DB experience, and good knowledge of infrastructure and VM’s.

A general understanding of Mongo DB and Sybase DB would be a bonus (not essential).

Operating System Knowledge
You should have a good working understanding of server operating systems that host and support database services, including but not limited to:

• Windows Server 2022
• Windows Server 2025
• CentOS 7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
• Experience should include navigating the operating system, reviewing services, checking logs, investigating performance issues, supporting permissions and access, and working with infrastructure or platform teams where required.

Typical Activities
The role is expected to include the following activities:

• Database maintenance and health checks
• Should have the ability to optimise performance as well as write and understand complex queries
• Monitoring database availability, performance and alerts
• Monitoring disk usage, storage growth and filesystem capacity
• Capacity management and forecasting for database and server resources
• Troubleshooting database, service, connectivity and operating system issues
• Investigating failed jobs, alerts, locks, blocking, slow queries and operational issues
• Supporting database migrations and upgrades
• Applying database and operating system patches
• Supporting service and server restarts
• Supporting backup, restore and recovery activities
• Managing database users, roles, permissions and access requests
• Supporting access reviews and least-privilege access controls
• Reviewing logs across database and operating system layers
• Working with infrastructure, application and support teams to resolve incidents
• Supporting planned change activity through appropriate change control processes
• Producing and maintaining operational documentation, runbooks and support notes

BAU Support Responsibilities
You should be comfortable carrying out regular BAU support tasks, including:

• Checking database and server health
• Reviewing monitoring dashboards and responding to alerts
• Tracking disk, CPU, memory and storage utilisation
• Identifying capacity risks before they become service-impacting
• Investigating operating system-level issues affecting database availability or performance
• Checking database services, scheduled jobs and backups
• Supporting user access, permissions and privilege changes
• Validating that services have restarted correctly after patching or maintenance
• Escalating infrastructure, network or application issues where required
• Maintaining clear records of incidents, changes and actions taken

This engagement will be initially 3 months, with very likely extensions for 1-2 years.

Please apply by submitting your latest CV for immediate review.

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