The Department and role purpose
The Computing and Information Services Department (CIS) has an annual operational budget in the order of £10m, multi-million pound programmes of change within year, and approximately 140 staff who are predominately based at the Durham University campus. The Senior Leadership Team report directly to the Chief Information Officer with the following portfolios: Strategy and Change; Operations; and Information Systems. CIS provides academic, teaching and administrative services across the organisation that underpin the day-to-day activities of the whole organisation.
Recent infrastructure improvements include investment in a new network backbone, including new cabling which runs throughout the city to all of the Universities core buildings, new scalable user facing storage, and a new hosting environment. Corresponding business led investment also continues to be made with a new Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning suite, investment in research administration, and maximising the breadth of opportunities available to the University through Office365, alongside numerous other important initiatives.
CIS is a friendly, but demanding department, where much is expected and can be achieved by competent, self-motivated individuals who are demonstrable in their team work ability.
This role is for an experienced SQL Server Database Administrator with some knowledge and experience of Oracle.
The post holder will work within the Data and Reporting Services Team and will be involved in the design, configuration, deployment, support and maintenance of database systems, middleware and applications while ensuring compliance with the department’s change management process.
The position will require a high level of technical knowledge, experience of customer service delivery, risk management skills and the ability to convert business requirements into viable technical solutions.
The successful candidate will seek to expand and maintain up-to-date knowledge of key technologies, methods and approaches relevant to database technologies.
Specific role requirements
- Participate within the University’s approach to respond to significant incidents, this may include outside of normal working hours.
- Provide out of hours on-site or on-call cover in support of the University’s key business processes.
- DBA’s will be expected to maintain a core set of skills and to cover for each other as required
What you are required to submit
- A CV;
- A covering letter which details your experience, strengths and potential in the requirements set out above;
- Examples of how you satisfy both the person specification and the Realising Your Potential Approach criteria. This may require completion of the 'Supporting Evidence' application section if specified by the recruiting manager. Please ensure you give detailed examples of how you meet these criteria if requested.
Please ensure that you submit all documentation listed above or your application cannot proceed to the next stage.
At Durham University, our aim is to create an open and inclusive environment where everyone can reach their full potential and believe our staff should reflect the diversity of the global community in which we work. We welcome and encourage applications from members of groups who are under-represented in our work force including people with disabilities, women and black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.
We will notify you on the status of your application at various points throughout the selection process, via automated emails from our e-recruitment system. Please check your spam/junk folder periodically to ensure you receive all emails.