Staff Database Administrator

Equiniti (EQ) is a leading provider of technology-led financial and administration services, helping some of the world's largest organisations manage and engage with their customers, shareholders and investors. EQ delivers critical services across shareholder administration, employee share plans, customer remediation and payments, supporting millions of people and businesses worldwide.

Our services underpin some of the most important financial interactions in the market. We work with many of the UK's and US's largest organisations, providing secure, resilient and innovative solutions that help our clients meet regulatory requirements, improve customer experiences and deliver trusted outcomes. EQ supports millions of shareholders globally and operates across multiple international markets.

Technology is central to our continued transformation and growth. We are investing heavily in modern cloud platforms, automation and digital capabilities, including the migration of critical services from traditional on-premises infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. Our technology teams play a key role in delivering secure, scalable and highly available platforms that support business-critical services for customers around the world.

At Equiniti, you'll have the opportunity to work on large-scale enterprise platforms, challenging transformation programmes and industry-leading technologies while collaborating with talented teams across the UK, Central Europe, India and North America. We are committed to fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement and professional development, empowering our colleagues to make a meaningful impact on both our business and our customers.

Role Summary
This is a hands-on Database Platform role requiring strong technical expertise alongside excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. The successful candidate will be responsible for the delivery, migration, administration and continual improvement of enterprise database platforms across both on-premises and Microsoft Azure environments.
The role will include supporting strategic migration programmes from on-premises infrastructure to Azure, as well as the ongoing management and optimisation of database services hosted across Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions.
The successful candidate will ensure database platform operational readiness through effective monitoring, security, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery and capacity management practices. Working closely with application, infrastructure, cloud engineering and project delivery teams, they will provide technical leadership and support throughout the database lifecycle.
The databases maintained support critical enterprise applications and business services. The role requires an individual who can work independently while collaborating effectively across multiple technical and business teams.
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Core Duties / Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following duties:
1.    Manage and support enterprise database platforms across multiple environments, including development, test, UAT, production and disaster recovery.
2.    Deliver and support database migration projects from on-premises environments to Microsoft Azure, including assessment, planning, execution, cutover and post-migration activities.
3.    Administer and maintain database platforms deployed across Azure IaaS virtual machines, Azure PaaS database services and integrated SaaS solutions.
4.    Configure and maintain database servers, instances and services to ensure high levels of performance, availability, scalability and security.
5.    Monitor database health, performance and capacity, proactively identifying risks and implementing improvements.
6.    Implement and maintain backup, recovery, high availability and disaster recovery solutions in both on-premises and cloud environments.
7.    Investigate, troubleshoot and resolve complex database platform issues, providing end-to-end ownership through to resolution.
8.    Support application development and engineering teams with database design, deployment, performance optimisation and best practices.
9.    Drive automation and standardisation initiatives using scripting, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and cloud-native tooling.
10.    Support database security, governance, compliance and auditing requirements in accordance with organisational standards.
11.    Perform database release activities, environment provisioning and change implementations, including out-of-hours support where required.
12.    Produce and maintain operational documentation, support procedures, architectural standards and migration runbooks.
13.    Provide technical mentorship, knowledge sharing and cross-training to colleagues and wider technology teams.
14.    Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, security and application teams to deliver resilient and scalable database platform solutions.
15.    Participate in on-call support and major incident management activities for business-critical services where required.
Location
The role is based in our Bangalore/Chennai office. Working hours align with a UK working day. There will be a requirement to support planned maintenance, migration activities and service-impacting changes outside of standard business hours.
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Skills, Attributes and Behaviour
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills and behaviours:
1.    Extensive experience administering enterprise database platforms, hosted on SQL Server (primary RDBMS), and well as PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL or equivalent technologies for the future.
2.    Experience delivering database migrations from on-premises infrastructure to Microsoft Azure.
3.    Strong knowledge of Azure database technologies, including Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure Database for PostgreSQL and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.
4.    Experience supporting database solutions deployed across Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS environments.
5.    Strong understanding of database performance tuning, optimisation and troubleshooting techniques using both native and third-party monitoring tools.
6.    Experience implementing and supporting backup, restore and disaster recovery strategies.
7.    Knowledge of high availability technologies, clustering, replication and business continuity solutions.
8.    Experience with automation and scripting technologies such as PowerShell, T-SQL, Terraform , Azure CLI or Infrastructure as Code tooling.
9.    Familiarity with Azure monitoring, security, governance and operational management practices.
10.    Experience working within ITIL-based support and change management processes.
11.    Strong understanding of database security principles, identity management and access controls.
12.    Experience working with Windows Server, Active Directory and cloud identity services.
13.    Excellent written, verbal and stakeholder communication skills.
14.    Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a proactive, service-oriented approach.
15.    Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt effectively within a rapidly changing technical environment.
16.    Flexible, collaborative and delivery-focused team player with a strong commitment to continuous improvement and operational excellence.
17.    Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within cross-functional teams.