Database Administrator - Warwick, United Kingdom - Pilgrim's Food Masters

Pilgrim's Food Masters

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Warwick, United Kingdom

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Tom O´Connor

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Database Administrator:

IT & Telecomms
DBA / Database Developer
Warwick, United Kingdom
Permanent / Full Time

19/5/2023

Database Administrator

We have recently announced the creation of Pilgrim's Shared Services, a fourth stand-alone company, which will bring together some of the support functions of our current three businesses (Moy Park, excluding France and Netherlands, Pilgrim's UK & Pilgrim's Food Masters).

Its purpose is to deliver a high-quality shared service to those three businesses.

As the business grows, this shared service will broaden opportunities for career development as part of a far larger organisation.

We will also continue our investment in technology to drive efficiencies and improved ways of working.

This is a newly created role reporting to the

IT Infrastructure Manager, we are pleased to advise that we are now recruiting for an

Database Administrator
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Main Duties & Responsibilities:The Database Administrator will be working across a primarily Microsoft SQL environment liaising with multiple areas of the business to support, design, evaluate, build, deliver and maintain the provision of a performant and secure SQL environment. They will be responsible for providing specialist technical support and expertise across Pilgrim's Europe SQL environment for both on-prem and cloud. To provide specialist technology expertise and be the escalation point across the Database team, including technical ownership and management of high priority incidents and problem records.

Be responsible for maintaining and proactively managing the portfolio of IT Solutions
Provide Incident and Problem management support.
Perform problem identification and root cause analysis for complex issues.
Perform regular health checks identifying and recommending any potential service improvements
Participation and engagement in Projects/Service improvements impacting Infrastructure Services.
Identification ownership and implementation of proactive maintenance plans including essential upgrades and software patches.
Monitor and review service performance at a component level e.g. Application Server, production of reports including recommendations for risk mitigation.
3rd party/vendor liaison with respect to technical support, build and maintenance.
Meet levels of service in line with published/agreed SLA's.
Adherence to all Pilgrim's UK processes including:
Raising, reviewing and approval of Change Controls.

- o Identify, investigate, update and resolve problem records.
- o Ensuring the configuration management database is maintained.
- o Ensuring that technology implemented is supportable and maintainable.
- o To ensure supporting documentation is maintained in line with improvements and maintenance activities.

Provision of out of hours support including participation in an oncall/standby rota. (as per direction from line manager)
Able to work unsocial hours when required which may include short durations away from home
To provide technical guidance to colleagues.

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What You'll Need

Experience in a support/delivery role in a medium to large organisation, with significant technical delivery/support responsibility.
Technical knowledge/specialism of the following technologies to "Expert" level:
_Database Server Security Patch Management_

- _Experience in Database Access Management_
- _Experience in Microsoft SQL Server DBA_
- _Experience in MS SQL Server Administration_
- _Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO)_
- _Experience with backups, restores and recovery models_
- _Experience of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery_

What's in it for you?

Competitive salary & employee benefits platform.
Matched pension contributions.
Access to the employee assistance program.
Flexible, hybrid working environment.

Why Join Pilgrim's Shared Service?
***Our values are at the heart of our business and drive everything we do.
_Availability_ is key as we are receptive and open and prepared to take on new challenges.
_Humility _is important to us as we listen and respect each other and value opinions of others.
_Discipline_ is vital to fulfil commitment internally and externally. We need to be truthful to each other and respectful of other opinions, so
_Sincerity_ drives us. At Pilgrim's we focus on what's practical and important so through
_Simplicity, Ownership_ and
_Determination_ brings success.

All these core values culminate into our vision which is:

_To be the best and most respected company in our industry, creating the opportunity of a better future for our team members.