SQL DBA | Permanent Position | Open to candidates who are looking to relocate to Newcastle Your current company

Join a large, established corporate organisation with a significant technology environment and a collaborative infrastructure team based in Newcastle. You'll work alongside infrastructure, networking, service desk, integration and data teams, supporting business-critical systems across a complex enterprise environment.

Your new role

As the Database Administrator, you'll take ownership of an environment of approximately 200 Microsoft SQL Servers, with a strong focus on on-premises infrastructure.

You'll be responsible for the day-to-day administration, performance, resilience and availability of the SQL environment, including backup and recovery, disaster recovery, optimisation, monitoring and security.

This is a hands-on infrastructure DBA position rather than a software development role. You'll work closely with the wider infrastructure and applications teams to troubleshoot issues, improve database performance and ensure critical business applications remain highly available.

What you'll need to succeed





Strong hands-on Microsoft SQL Server DBA experience within enterprise production environments A background in infrastructure-focused DBA roles rather than SQL development

Strong experience with disaster recovery, high availability and database resilience

Extensive backup, restore, monitoring and performance optimisation experience

Experience administering and supporting large on-premises SQL Server environments

Good understanding of Windows Server and wider IT infrastructure

Ability to independently troubleshoot database and infrastructure-related issues

Experience with database security, patching and operational maintenance

Azure or cloud database exposure would be advantageous, but is not essential

What you'll get in return

Up to 10% annual bonus

Five weeks' annual leave

Fully reimbursed parking

Modern Newcastle office close to public transport

Opportunity to take ownership of a significant SQL Server environment

Exposure to future Azure and data platform initiatives

Long-term opportunities to broaden your skills beyond traditional DBA responsibilities

Supportive and experienced infrastructure team

What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV to [email protected] . Please click here to apply.

📌 SQL DBA (Newcastle)
🏢 Charlie Pym
📍 Newcastle