Database Administrator Team Lead

Tribal Group Plc is a UK-based EdTech business providing market leading software solutions to the global education market. We strive to research, develop and deliver the products, services and solutions needed by education institutes worldwide to support their primary goals of educating students, providing optimum learning experiences and ultimately delivering successful outcomes.

We have an ambitious strategy to build upon our position and support the education market evolving to a SaaS model.

We are looking for an Oracle/SQL Database Administrator Team Lead who would like to be a part of the journey!

What can you expect from this role?

Joining our Platform Engineering team, you will play a key role in leading our UK DBA operational team for Oracle and SQL database management, ensuring that we provide stable, optimal environments, comprising Database and Application Server, to support our product development teams and customers on mainly Cloud Systems and some client provided infrastructure.

This role will be a champion of process and methodology and be responsible for implementation of new methodologies and standards, applicable to Database Administration.

Some of the key responsibilities for this role will include;

• Monitoring, Incident and Problem Management
• Administering and maintaining the Oracle and SQL database tier of managed environments for optimal performance, security and reliability.
• Installation and Upgrades: Lead the technical activities for upgrading and installing application and platform components on existing or new infrastructure
• Ensuring that Product releases are stable and all change management, upgrade and other relevant processes are clearly documented
• Managing and guiding other Cloud Services DBA staff in the use of operational procedures and review
• Ongoing monitoring, administration and problem management with focus on the Oracle databases to result in stable environments.
• Ensuring that all installations, upgrades and change approaches are clearly defined, configured and documented and successfully delivered to time and specification
• Enabling us to move forward with new tooling and best practice

The Person

Within this role it is therefore essential that applicants have strong proven records operating as a DBA in an enterprise environment, with an excellent practical understanding of Oracle.

Further technical requirements include;

• Very strong working knowledge of database and application server low level architecture
• Extensive experience of having worked in a DBA role in an enterprise environment
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux/Windows Operating System administrative utilities
• Experience with Cloud technologies (AWS or Azure)
• Proficiency in optimisation including indexing and best practice re Oracle queries
• Experience in Operating System shell scripting would be beneficial
• Proficiency with database backup technologies
• Extensive demonstrable technical operational experience in an enterprise environment
• Working knowledge of Cloud toolsets for performance management, monitoring, logging and deployment (Redgate in particular)
• Knowledge or experience of SITS would be beneficial, but not essential

Please Note: This role falls within the scope of Tribal's On Call and Out of Hours Working policy. Regular out of hours working may therefore be required to fulfil the requirements of the role, and this will be compensated in line with the policy.

Why Tribal?

This is an unrivalled opportunity to join a team of driven, meticulous, and passionate professionals who are challenging the status quo of products that are provided globally to institutions that specialise in education, training, and learning. Our software is world-class , and we believe we give our team the tools, environment, and training to be world-class.

Not only will you have full access to resources to continue to up-skill whilst part of our team, but we offer highly competitive salaries and a flexible working environment. Your work will be diverse and challenging. You’ll benefit from our generous benefits package includes pension, private medical insurance, life assurance, a healthcare cash plan and the option to buy or sell annual leave.

Please apply by completing our short application form and your CV.

If you are successful in your application to this role and Tribal make you an offer of employment a security check will be required before we can employ you, in this case a Basic Disclosure – England and Wales will be required, if following the Basic Disclosure check the nature of a conviction is deemed unacceptable, this may lead to an offer of employment being withdrawn.

As an equal opportunity employer, Tribal celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon any protected characteristics and actively welcome applications from all groups, not least those underrepresented in the tech sector. To safeguard this we are signatories to Tech Talent Charter to better enable us to be a responsible business.

Note to all applicants - Tribal reserve the right to close an advertisement to applications ahead of the advertised closure date. For this reason, shortlisting may take place prior to the closing date on some occasions. With this in mind, please do not hesitate to apply early.