Database Administrator

Job Title:                     Database Administrator

Location:                     Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF69331

Secure the data. Support the mission. 

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Database Administrator at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife.

The role

As a Database Administrator, you’ll be part of our Platforms and Hosting Team, supporting critical database services across SQL Server and Oracle environments. You’ll help ensure performance, reliability and security making a real impact on the systems that support national defence and engineering excellence.

Day-to-day, you’ll be working within a well-established DBA team to support the SQL Server and Oracle database services for both Production and Development.

• Maintaining accounts, permissions and auditing for data security
• Performing daily checks and responding to alerts
• Configuring and maintaining database servers and processes
• Investigating incidents affecting mission-critical systems
• Administering installations, patching and upgrades for SQL Server and Oracle

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential Experience for the Database Administrator

• MS SQL Server 2016+ (AOAG, SSIS, SSRS, monitoring tools)
• Strong knowledge of SQL Server Management Studio, Integration Services, Reporting Services
• Oracle SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, OEM, Oracle Linux commands
• Windows and Oracle Linux infrastructure experience
• Oracle 12c+ (RMAN, RAC, ASM, Data Guard, APEX, WebLogic)

Qualifications for the Database Administrator

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) /and Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock  has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 12/11/2025