Overview

Position Title: Database Administrator (DBA)

Company: Jet2.com and Jet2holidays

Location: Crumlin, UK

Job Description

Jet2.com and Jet2Holidays are always looking for enthusiastic and knowledgeable people to join our award-winning team of colleagues. We are looking to hire a SQL Database Administrator (DBA) to join our growing Data Platform team (DBAs, MVPs and Database Reliability Engineers).

Our Data Platform team are currently based in Leeds city centre, we currently offer a hybrid working policy of three days working at home and two days in the office.

The team consists of 8 DBA’s/Engineers supporting an estate of around 500 SQL Servers and 30 Oracle servers. We are looking for individuals who are keen to explore a variety of data platforms, drive innovation and develop their own skillset.

Responsibilities:

  • Build, configure and support SQL Server operations across the business.
  • Review Pull Requests/release scripts from development teams. Investigate existing queries running on live databases and assist development teams in making queries more performant where possible
  • Understand at least one method for High-Availability/Disaster Recovery, such as backups, mirroring, AlwaysOn, Failover Cluster Instance or Log Shipping.
  • Work closely with IT support and Release Management teams.
  • Provide support to the wider business in relation to Database queries and features.

Requirements:

  • Keen to explore a variety of data platforms.
  • Driven to innovate and improve.
  • Willing to take advantage of excellent training opportunities via external conferences such as SQL Bits, as well as ongoing in house and offsite training.
  • Good communicator.
  • Team player

About Jet2.com and Jet2holidays

Since its first flight to Amsterdam from Leeds Bradford Airport in February 2003, Jet2.com has grown at a rapid but reliable pace. More than 50 million customers have flown with its Friendly low fares. It has bases for leisure flights currently at Leeds Bradford, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, Edinburgh, East Midlands, Birmingham, London Stansted, Bristol, Belfast as well as overseas bases in Alicante and Palma.