Database Administrator

Who are Benifex? 💚💜

We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the world.We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love.Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in. 🚀

Why should you apply? 🌟

• Autonomy: Own the running and management of our global SQL server estate

• Technical Progression: Work on business critical migration projects and upskill in MongoDB, AlloyDB and Cloud SQL

• Opportunity:We are in the process of modernising and erasing tech debt and this role is key to that project.

• Environment: Our Engineering department are full of high-performing and super talented individuals and you will be a key part of maintaining and building that environment.

  Top 10 Employer, Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards

• Work for a profitable, fast-growingmarket leaderin the online reward and benefits space

**Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require to people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position**

Great benefits:

💰 £50,000-65,000

💻 Tech setup of your choice (MacBook Pro or equivalent, monitors, etc.)

📚 £/€800 annual learning budget, plus two hours per week as ‘Focus Fridays’.

🤸 Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a month in the office and you must be based in the UK or Ireland.

💸 Full access to our comprehensive benefits package, including discounts from hundreds of high street brands, salary sacrifice schemes across Finance, Health, Tech, and more

✈️ 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays

🎂 Your birthday off

❤️ Two half day wellbeing days

🩺 Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day-to-day healthcare

🧠 Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support

🤒 Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)

💰 Referral bonuses

🌟 Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave

✈️ Work from Anywhere policy for 90 days

🏖️ Buy and Sell scheme for holidays

💳 £50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benifex card will be topped up at the start of each month!

Role Overview 🚀

We are looking for a skilled, proactive Database Administrator to join our Platform team, taking ownership of our database estate that includes SQL Server, MongoDB, and MySQL instances across multiple global environments.

As our dedicated DBA, you’ll ensure our databases are secure, performant, and highly available. You’ll also work closely with developers to design, optimise, and maintain our data layer in line with best practices.

Responsibilities 🤘

Database Operations:

• Administer and maintain SQL Server installations:

  • Backups/restores lifecycle management

  • Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) key management

  • Failover clustering

  • Maintenance plans (DBCC, index management, log pruning)

  • Side-by-side upgrades and environment migrations

  • Performance tuning and configuration beyond defaults

  • Troubleshooting and recovery in case of outages

• Administer MongoDB deployments:

  • Backup and restore procedures

  • Monitoring and performance analysis

  • Schema design review

• Administer MySQL deployments:

  • Backup strategies

  • Replication setup and monitoring

  • Query optimisation and indexing

Development & Collaboration

• Work with engineering teams to:

  • Understand business requirements

  • Develop, maintain, and optimise stored procedures and queries

  • Automate routine database tasks and processes

  • Enforce best practices for database development and deployment

  • Provide routine feedback to developers on query optimisation

  • Review changes to data access patterns proposed by developers to ensure performance and best practices

Security & Compliance

• Implement and maintain encryption, access controls, and auditing.

• Ensure compliance with data protection regulations (e.g. GDPR).

Monitoring & Incident Response

• Configure and maintain monitoring solutions.

• Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.

• Lead database recovery efforts in the event of failures (compute, storage, network).

What are we looking for? 🔎

Must Have Experience:

• Strong experience with SQL Server administration and T-SQL development.

• Performance tuning expertise across RDBMS systems.

• Proven experience with database backup/restore strategies.

• Understanding of data modelling principles.

• Experience with source control (e.g. Git/GitHub).

• Scripting ability (e.g. PowerShell, Bash, or Python).

Nice to Have:

• Production experience with MongoDB,MySQL (or demonstrated ability to learn quickly).

• Exposure to cloud database offerings (GCP Cloud SQL)

• Awareness of database security best practices.

• Familiarity with monitoring stacks (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, RedGate).

Competencies:

• Passion for technology: Someone who invests in their craft and self learning, a continuous improvement mindset, a focus on best practices, and someone keen to see how new tools/technology can be applied to business problems.

  Taking ownership: A mindset of holding yourself and others accountable, someone who can be relied on in challenging situations, a bias to action.

  Open mindedness:Strong opinions loosely held, you're open to ideas, and seek feedback and input from others.

  Excellent communicator:An effective communicator to techncial and non-technical audiences, able to break down complex information into simple to understand language.

• Natural problem solver: someone who thrives on solving technical challenges, who has a methodical way to work through problems and offer pragmatic solutions

Even if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow. We also offer a variety of other roles, so please check out our careers page to see if there is something else that might be a good fit for you.

Our interview process

✌ Benifex understands the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible.

📞 Initial informal call with the Talent team

🧪 Technical Task

🔎 Technical Interview - 60 min

🤩 Final interview with VP of Engineering - 30-45 min

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.