We are looking for an experienced Senior Database Administrator to join a well-established national organisation. This role owns the end-to-end performance, availability, security, and lifecycle management of the firm's enterprise database platforms, ensuring the databases supporting critical business systems remain reliable, secure, and optimised.

You'll be the go-to database subject matter expert, working closely with Infrastructure and IT teams to keep platforms running smoothly while contributing to architecture decisions and long-term technology roadmaps.

Responsibilities include:

- Own and manage all production and non-production database environments, ensuring high availability, stability, performance, and data integrity
- Install, configure, maintain, monitor and optimise databases, including performance tuning and capacity planning
- Contribute to database architecture, design decisions and technology roadmaps
- Implement database security controls including access management, encryption and auditing
- Design,



maintain and regularly test backup, recovery and disaster recovery capabilities
- Provide database support for key enterprise applications, ensuring reliable operation and upgrade readiness
- Develop and optimise SQL, stored procedures and scripts to support automation and reporting
- Partner with IT and business teams on projects involving data platforms, upgrades and migrations

Experience needed:

- 5+ years' experience in senior database administration within enterprise environments
- Solid expertise in Microsoft SQL Server administration, performance tuning and high-availability architectures
- Proven experience with backup, recovery and disaster recovery planning and testing
- Solid understanding of database security, access control and data protection
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex database issues and document operational processes

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📌 Senior Database Administrator (New South Wales)
🏢 Ambition Recruitment
📍 New South Wales