Senior IT Systems Administrator in Maidstone

Location: Rochester, Kent

Salary: £55,000

What You’ll Be Doing

• Identifying and correcting performance issues, reviewing systems and error logs, storage management, backups, job monitoring, optimization efforts, data integrity analysis and resolving database contention issues
• Managing Oracle Cloud and legacy Oracle ERP 11i environments
• Oracle and SQL database administration to ensure databases are tuned to perform efficiently, plus reviewing established monitoring process to look for improvements
• Ensure systems and environment are patched to the latest vendor patch levels
• Cloning of systems between environments and environment auditing
• Backup management, including how we would respond in a disaster recovery situation
• Performing release reviews and releases into production environments
• Working as part of a project team to deliver DBA and system administration activities required for new applications and upgrades to existing applications, infrastructure and databases

Essential Your skills and experiences:

• SQL Server Administration and Support with experience of Oracle Database Administration and Support
• Oracle EBS or managing Oracle cloud environments
• Experience with third party backup and monitoring tools
• Oracle or SQL Server clustering, replication and log shipping an advantage
• Knowledge of indexes, index management, partitioning and statistics

Desirable

• Experience or knowledge of Siemens Teamcenter PLM, SharePoint
• T-SQL, SQL, SSIS, PowerBI, Oracle RDBMS 11i, 12c Red Hat Linux skills
• Experience using Atlassian products Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence & BitBucket

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The IT Systems Administration Team

The role is responsible for ensuring the monitoring, maintenance and management of databases, application services and servers key to the business operation. As part of the System Administration team, you will get the opportunity to ensure maintenance and release activities are performed in line with our procedural mandates, as well as looking for ways to improve executions. This role will involve an element of being on-call to support.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 12th December 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.