Database Administrator

Senior Database Administrator & Backup Consultant

Location: Remote

Contract Length: 3 months

We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator & Backup Consultant to provide senior-level operational support for enterprise database, backup, and recovery environments.

This is a hands-on role focused on maintaining the availability, performance, security, integrity, and recoverability of critical enterprise systems .

What You’ll Be Doing

• Administer, monitor, maintain, patch, upgrade, and optimize enterprise relational database environments.
• Perform database performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Administer enterprise backup and recovery platforms.
• Monitor backup jobs, retention policies, and recovery processes.
• Troubleshoot backup/database failures and perform root-cause analysis.
• Perform and document restore testing and recovery validation.
• Support disaster recovery activities and exercises.
• Maintain documentation and evidence for audit, compliance, and recovery requirements.
• Work closely with application teams, infrastructure teams, and vendors.
• Use scripting, automation, and monitoring tools to improve operational efficiency.
• Participate in incident, problem, and change management activities.
• Participate in on-call support as required.

What We’re Looking For

• Senior-level experience administering enterprise relational databases .
• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise backup and recovery platforms .
• Experience with database installation, configuration, maintenance, patching, upgrades, security, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Strong knowledge of backup scheduling, retention, restore operations, disaster recovery testing, and recoverability validation.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience with operating system administration, scripting, automation, and monitoring.
• Strong incident, change, and problem management practices.

Nice to Have

• Experience within financial services, pensions, or another highly regulated environment .
• Experience producing backup/restore evidence for audits, compliance, or cyber-insurance requirements.
• Database or data protection modernization experience.
• Experience with platform upgrades and disaster recovery exercises.
• Relevant database, backup/recovery, cloud, or IT service management certifications.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced DBA who is equally strong in database administration and enterprise backup/recovery and can step into a critical environment with minimal ramp-up time.