Database Administrator Senior Engineer

Job description

About Convatec

Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in Advanced Wound Care, Ostomy Care, Continence Care, and Infusion Care.

With more than 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in around 90 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring.

Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs.

Convatec’s revenues in 2024 were over $2 billion.

The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC).

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Position Overview

Experienced Database administrator that serves as a senior technical specialist who design, implements, maintains and optimizes enterprise database environments across multiple platforms including Microsoft SQL server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, while providing strategic direction for data management.

At this experience level, the DBA has developed deep technical expertise and business acumen that allows them to bridge the gap between database operations and organizational objectives.

Role requires participation in on-call rotations, incident response, and collaboration on projects.

Key responsibilities

· Administer and optimize MySQL and PostgreSQL databases alongside MS SQL Server

· Familiarity with tools and utilities specific to MySQL (, mysqldump, Percona Toolkit) and PostgreSQL (, pgAdmin, pgBackRest).

· Ability to troubleshoot and optimize queries across different SQL dialects

· Design scalable database infrastructures

· Resolve complex performance bottlenecks in large-scale environments

· Design and implement HA/DR architectures

· Create, change, delete user accounts and manage the roles

· Configure and monitoring DB backups and perform restorations

· Oversee major version upgrades and migrations

· Implement database changes with minimal business impact

· Participation in the projects, translation of business requirements and implementation

· Troubleshooting of problems, problem analysis and solution implementation

· Create and maintain enterprise database documentation

· Build knowledge repositories for troubleshooting and best practices

· Evaluate database technologies and licensing options

· Performance monitoring and tuning

· Help Investigate the root cause of incidents and initiate actions to improve or correct the situation

· Participation on on-call duties, independent solving and troubleshooting of incidents and errors within defined expertise

Key requirements

Outline the essential competencies and characteristics that candidates must demonstrate to contribute to our diverse, inclusive culture and succeed in the role.

These may include:

· 5 to 8 years hands-on technical experience administering databases

· Other experience in IT infrastructure technologies will be considered

· Ability to engage, motivate and inspire others to achieve a high-level result from a large and diverse group

· Tenacious problem-solving abilities to see issues through to resolution.

· Ability to independently take ownership, present, demonstrate, document to deliver new projects

· Experience with cloud database platforms

Education/ Qualifications

· Bachelor’s or master’s degree in IT.

· Certifications in MySQL or PostgreSQL are a plus.

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