lead data platform administrator

Randstad Digital (Formerly Finite Recruitment)

Randstad Digital was announced on August 30, 2023, under the umbrella of Randstad, the world's largest talent company and a partner of choice to clients. Our 46,000 employees around the world make a positive impact on society by helping people to realize their true potential throughout their working life. In 2022, in our 39 markets, we helped more than 2 million people find a job that feels good and advised over 230,000 clients on their talent needs.

Responsibilities

• Design, administer, and maintain schemas, tables, and views across development, test, staging, and production environments. Optimise indexes, queries, and storage to meet strict SLAs.
• Apply security hardening, access controls, encryption, and patching in line with the security frameworks and audit requirements.
• Implement backup, recovery, and fail over procedures; contribute to disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Collaborate with developers to optimise SQL queries, refine data access patterns, and support CMS (Drupal) and API-driven data integration's.
• Provide specialist troubleshooting for database-related incidents, support data migrations, and maintain version-controlled change documentation

Essential skills:

• Experience administering enterprise databases (e.g. MS SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB), including performance tuning, monitoring and capacity planning.
• Experience implementing security controls, backups, recovery and high-availability patterns in line with governance and audit requirements.
• Ability to support upgrades, patches and structured change processes, including testing and issue resolution.
• Strong SQL skills and experience collaborating with developers and technical teams to optimise queries and data design.

Desirable skills:

• Experience with AWS database services (e.g. RDS/Aurora, snapshots, Performance Insights) and cloud-hosted operational patterns.
• Experience supporting web platforms or CMS technologies (Drupal desirable) and data integration's with APIs.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated database deployment or schema management.
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary Agile delivery teams.

At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.