Database Manager

The Database Manager will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining database architecture, ensuring security, and optimizing performance. Key duties include implementing security policies, managing access, monitoring and tuning performance, and developing backup and recovery strategies. The role also involves collaborating with IT teams, documenting systems, and planning upgrades and migrations to support organizational needs.

Must Have

• Design, build, and maintain database architecture and data structures
• Implement and enforce security policies and manage database access
• Monitor and tune database performance, optimize queries
• Develop and implement database backup and recovery strategies
• Collaborate with IT teams for system integration and technical support
• Develop and maintain documentation for database systems and standards
• Plan and implement database upgrades, migrations, and ETL processes
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Expertise in database design, development, and management
• Proficiency in database technologies, such as SQL
• Knowledge of database security, backup, and recovery principles
• Ability to monitor and optimize database performance
• Strong communication skills
• Experience in data management and data analysis

Job Description:

Key responsibilities

• Design and Maintenance: Design, build, and maintain database architecture, data structures, and ensure compatibility with organizational needs.
• Security and Access: Implement and enforce security policies, manage database access, and create user permissions to protect data from unauthorized access and breaches.
• Performance and Optimization: Monitor and tune database performance, optimize queries, and implement strategies for high availability and disaster recovery.
• Backup and Recovery: Develop and implement regular database backup and recovery strategies to ensure data reliability and minimize downtime.
• Collaboration and Support: Work with other IT teams (such as developers) to integrate database systems, and provide technical support and expertise to resolve issues.
• Documentation and Standards: Develop and maintain documentation for all database systems and establish and enforce database standards and policies.
• Upgrades and Migrations: Plan and implement database upgrades, migrations, and data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes.

Essential skills and qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Expertise in database design, development, and management.
• Proficiency in database technologies, such as SQL.
• Knowledge of database security, backup, and recovery principles.
• Ability to monitor and optimize database performance.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate with various teams.
• Experience in data management and data analysis is often required

Are you ready to join Likewize?

At Likewize, we are trusted by many of the world’s biggest brands to look after their customers tech. When their tech goes wrong we make it right.

We offer device protection insurance programs, repair services, upgrade and recommence solutions and also premium tech support.

The tech industry moves fast - but so do we. Innovation and disruption are in our DNA, so we are always challenging convention and looking for ways to do things better, quicker and making everything easier for our customers.

Doing that successfully takes trust, teamwork and a knack for making the complicated simple. We’re looking for creative, quick and relentless talent to join the team. Are you one of us?