# Database Reliability Engineer

Database Reliability Engineer Newcastle + Hybrid working Up to £65,000 Your new role I am currently recruiting for Database Reliability Engineer for my client based in Newcastle. The purpose of the Support and System Reliability Engineering (SSRE) team is to ensure the availability, reliability and optimal performance of the groups technology systems and infrastructure. The focus of this role is to maintain a stable and secure environment, prevent downtime and ensure that all database infrastructure and related systems are running efficiently. The Database Reliability Engineer strives to implement best practice in system monitoring, incident management and disaster recovery, while continuing to improve the reliability, resilience and automation within the technology stack. Responsibilities Act as the SQL Server and T-SQL subject matter expert, providing technical leadership and best practice guidance. Monitor, maintain, and optimise database performance, proactively identifying issues and implementing alerts to ensure service levels are met. Perform database tuning, query optimisation, index management, and schema improvements to maximise performance and reliability. Support capaci

- **Id**: 4026480
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/hays-specialist-recruitment-database-reliability-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T16:46:49Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T16:46:49Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3383
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 53988
- **Name**: Hays Specialist Recruitment
- **Domain**: hays.co.uk
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/hays-specialist-recruitment>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Min**: 50000
- **Max**: 65000
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 86563

## Technologies

- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure SQL Database** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **ITIL** — Optional: no
- **ITSM** — Optional: no
- **MS SQL** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **Oracle** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T17:06:38Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: seen:0, agency, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T18:31:53Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 86563
- **Is top pay**: no

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