Database Administrator

Database Administrator (DBA)

Work shouldn't just be something we do; it should have a purpose. At Envision, we believe in creating life-changing outcomes through the work we do with our clients, giving back to our communities, while creating a company culture where our people thrive. We believe success starts with a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, and empowered to grow.

Being part of a collaborative team means there's no limit to what you can achieve. With us, you can be a part of a growing company you want to work for.

Our Vision: To unleash the power of combined intelligence to accelerate patient access to life-changing treatments.

Our Mission: Delivering smarter and faster solutions to create, communicate, and commercialize value for our clients.

Our Values: Excellence, People, Growth

The opportunity

The Database Administrator (DBA) – Platform & Operations is responsible for the administration, maintenance, performance, security, and operational support of enterprise database environments across traditional, hybrid, and cloud platforms. This role works closely with infrastructure, application, cloud, security, and development teams to ensure the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of critical database systems supporting enterprise applications and business services.

The DBA will manage database platforms, backup and recovery processes, high availability solutions, performance optimization, operational governance, and database security while supporting modernization initiatives, automation efforts, and cloud adoption strategies. The role also contributes to operational excellence by maintaining database standards, documentation, monitoring, and continuous improvement processes.

This position requires strong technical expertise in enterprise database administration, troubleshooting, operational support, and infrastructure collaboration within highly available enterprise environments.

How will you make an impact at Envision Pharma Group?

Role responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, patch, upgrade, and support enterprise database environments across on-premises and cloud platforms.
• Manage database installation, configuration, performance tuning, monitoring, and capacity planning activities.
• Maintain and support high availability, replication, clustering, and disaster recovery solutions for critical database systems.
• Configure and maintain database backup, recovery, retention, and restoration processes.
• Monitor database health, performance, storage utilization, and operational metrics to ensure system reliability and availability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database-related incidents, performance issues, connectivity problems, and operational escalations.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, networking, security, and application teams to support enterprise operational requirements.
• Maintain database security controls including access management, auditing, encryption, patching, and vulnerability remediation.
• Support cloud and hybrid database environments including AWS database services and cloud connectivity.
• Participate in database migration, upgrade, consolidation, and modernization initiatives.
• Develop and maintain database operational procedures, standards, runbooks, and technical documentation.
• Support database automation and operational improvement initiatives using scripting and configuration management tools.
• Participate in change management, incident management, problem management, and operational governance processes.
• Perform database capacity analysis, growth forecasting, and resource optimization activities.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security, operational, backup, and data governance standards.
• Participate in on-call support rotations and operational escalation processes.
• Support application deployment activities and collaborate with development teams on database-related requirements.
• Contribute to operational reviews, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Do you have what we are looking for?

Skills & expertise

• 6–9 years of experience in database administration, infrastructure operations, or enterprise IT environments.
• Strong Microsoft SQL Server expertise across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.
• Hands-on AWS experience.
• The ability to support development teams and project work, such as migrations and upgrades, in addition to day-to-day operational activities.
• A proactive approach to monitoring, performance optimisation, and fine-tuning.
• PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB/NoSQL experience are desirable.
• Experience or the ability to recommend improvements to high-availability solutions and overall resilience.
• Proficient in database security, access control, auditing, and operational governance.
• Strong background in automation, scripting, and operational tooling.
• Adept at supporting highly available enterprise applications and operational environments.
• Collaborative approach to working with infrastructure, cloud, networking, and application support teams.

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Do you have the experience we are looking for? If so, explore your place at Envision today!