As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.
Job Description
SS&C Blue Prism allows organisations to deliver transformational business value via our intelligent automation platform. We make products with one aim in mind - to improve experiences for people. By connecting people and digital workers, you can use the right resource, every time, for the best customer and business outcomes. We supply enterprise-wide software that not only provides full control and governance, but also allows businesses to react fast to continuous change.
Exceed customer expectations, stay competitive, accelerate growth.
Senior Cloud Database Administrator
Locations: UK Remote
The Opportunity
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cloud DBA to manage, optimise, and secure our cloud-based database systems. This role is crucial for ensuring the high availability, performance, and scalability of our data infrastructure, supporting Blue Prism's innovative automation solutions.
What You Will Get To Do:
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure database solutions primarily within public cloud environments (Azure, AWS).
- Design, build, and optimise cloud-based data lake architectures to support scalable, secure, and high-performance data ingestion, storage, and analytics workloads.
- Monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions for performance optimisation and tuning.
- Manage database backups, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and business continuity.
- Implement and enforce database security policies, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
- Automate routine database administration tasks using scripting languages (e.g. Python, T-SQL, PowerShell) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., ARM, Terraform).
- Collaborate with development teams to optimise database schemas, queries, and application interactions.
- Provide expert guidance and support for database-related issues, including troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
Participate in capacity planning and resource management for database systems. - Occasionally, work directly with end-clients to maintain and optimise their data.
- Use Git for version control, managing branching strategies, pull requests, and collaborative code reviews.
- Manage and track work in Jira.
- Document database configurations, processes, and operational procedures.
What You Will Bring:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator, with a strong focus on cloud database platforms (AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL Database/Managed Instance, Google Cloud SQL/Spanner).
- Expert-level proficiency in relational database management systems (RDBMS) such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, or Oracle.
- Demonstrable experience with database performance tuning, optimisation, and monitoring tools.
- Strong understanding of database security principles and best practices, including encryption, access control, and auditing.
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., SQL, Python, PowerShell) for automation.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., ARM, Terraform) is highly desirable.
- Solid understanding of cloud architecture concepts and services.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex database issues.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and clients.
- Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Database - Speciality, Azure Database Administrator Associate) are a plus.
Why You Will Love It Here!
- Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement, including access to SS&C University
- Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
- Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the well-being of our staff
- Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
- Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.
Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.
Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
