Database Administrator (DBA)

At Pavers we are transforming and growing our IT Department and have a new opportunity for a Database Administrator(DBA) to join the expanding team at our Head Office in York, Northminster Business Park. This role is offered as a full-time permanent opportunity in a growing business where you are encouraged to develop and grow your skills in a supportive environment.

IT and technology are at the heart of almost everything we do and this role is crucial in facilitating our ongoing success. Sitting within our IT Operations team, you will be a key figure in the transformation of our data estate to being more resilient and future focused.

This is a broad DBA role in a SQL Server environment that has evolved and now needs to be managed efficiently and securely. To thrive you will be a DBA who is comfortable working closely with multiple teams including development, support and architecture. You will be at the core of improving application speeds through performance tuning and database design.

Reporting to the Infrastructure Manager, within a small but focused team, you will be part of an exciting journey to move Pavers forward. The focus of this role is very much on the future, as the organisation embarks on a system modernisation project, which will explore and challenge all business areas. This role will appeal to someone who enjoys maintaining knowledge of technology through active involvement in solution delivery, whilst still wanting to develop their career through expanding their skill set in digital transformation.

Salary & Benefits for our DBA;

Up to £45,000 per annum depending on experience plus;

• Flexible working options available
• Generous Staff Discount
• Discretionary Annual Bonus scheme  
• Free onsite parking at York Head Office
• Death In Service Benefit
• Holiday Entitlement (Increases with service)  
• Company Contribution Pension  
• Access to RetailTRUST (Wellbeing & Financial Support)
• Access to the Pavers Foundation: employee-led grant application and charitable giving scheme
• Access to wider training and development opportunities through Pavers Academy

Main duties of our DBA

• Day to day management and preventative maintenance of SQL Server Instances.
• Performance monitoring and optimisation of databases.
• Respond to alerts and support queries.
• Act as the subject matter expert for SQL environments.
• Work with other infrastructure professionals, software developers and system architects to provide resilient and performant solutions for an expanding business.
• Document and maintain settings and configurations.
• Support internal compliance team with respect to PCI and GDPR compliance.
• Ensure high availability, secure and integrity of systems and services through monitoring, auditing and intrusion detection.
• Manage onsite and cloud backup and recovery processes and support business continuity initiatives and policy.
• Manage system performance, upgrades, configurations and resources.
• Carry out duties in accordance with Company and IT Policy and Procedures.
• Contribute to improving and determining standards.

About you

• Advance knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft SQL Server certification
• Highly proficient scripting skills in PowerShell, T-SQL, and/or Python
• Managing both internal and application driven databases supported by SQL Server
• Experience of taking charge of incident resolution where appropriate
• Cloud backup experience

About Us

At Pavers we are passionate about providing comfort and happiness to our customers, and we make sure to employ people who are as passionate as we are. We always look for happy, confident, upbeat people, and we provide great jobs in a supportive family environment for them. We know that without our colleagues there is no business, and so the better we look after you, the better service you will provide our customers.

Pavers is a growing, highly profitable, independent family-run business with a strong balance sheet, employing over 1,800 people across our estate of circa 200 Stores, Head Office & Distribution Centre, and we remain acquisitive.

We were voted one of the Top 10 Employers in Retail in the UK in 2020 and were recognised as a 3* Employer with ‘World Class’ levels of workplace engagement by Best Companies in 2023. At Pavers we truly believe the talents, passion, and dedication of our employees are the reasons for our success. As of 2023 we are working towards obtaining menopause friendly status.

In 2021 we became the first major retailer to achieve Carbon Neutral status and have proudly maintained this standard ever since. Championing sustainability is at the heart of everything that we do, and we’re committed to changing the future of retail for the better acting in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.

Giving back is in our nature as a Business and in 2018 we established the Pavers Foundation, in the memory of our late founder, Catherine Paver. Since then, the Foundation has awarded grants for causes close to our colleagues’ hearts for; community, education, and areas of health, totalling more than £2m, growing year on year.

If this sounds like the kind of business you’d like to know more about, we’d love to hear from you - please apply today for the role of Database Administrator (DBA)!