SQL Database Administrator in Manchester

This role involves leading Oracle database teams and providing hands-on expertise across Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. You will manage and optimise databases, ensure security and reliability, support design and troubleshooting, and implement backup and disaster recovery procedures. The role requires collaboration with technical teams, working in Agile/DevOps environments, supporting cloud and distributed data technologies, and mentoring team members.

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

• Must have hands-on experience as Database Administration specifically with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
• Managing an Oracle team.
• Working with database software to find ways to store, organise, and manage data.
• Expert knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL data stores and working with a variety of structures including JSON and XML.
• Experience of software development with distributed data processing technologies including Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
• Experience in keeping databases up to date, troubleshooting, helping with database design, development, and managing database access.
• Experience in designing maintenance procedures and putting them into operation.
• Liaising with programmers, applications operational staff, IT project managers, and other technical staff.
• Managing database security, integrity, and backup procedures, implementing security measures.
• Writing reports, documentation, and operating manuals.
• Testing and modifying databases to ensure that they operate reliably.
• Writing disaster recovery plans and archiving housekeeping data.
• Knowledge of Cloud platforms and serverless architecture preferable.
• Good understanding of software patterns and when/how to apply them.
• Knowledge of Kafka will be advantageous.
• Experience of working in an Agile/DevOps software development environment.
• Ability to help with mentoring tasks.
• Experience in working on support activities.

• Strong hands-on experience with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Oracle database administration.
• Experience leading a database team and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Proficient in designing, implementing, and maintaining maintenance procedures.
• Experience with security, integrity, and backup procedures.
• Ability to work in Agile/DevOps environments and support cloud and distributed data technologies.
• Mentoring and coaching capabilities.

We are a Disability Confident Employer. Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please opt in during the application process.

You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce as a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing, we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from think tanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications, and much more.

You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini: Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs, and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini: Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology, and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering, and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.