Job Vacancy ICT Database Specialist

Job Title: ICT Database Specialist

Location: South Wales Police Headquarters, Bridgend, Wales

Salary: £45,147 - £52,491

Job Type: Permanent / Full time

About Us:

South Wales Police is the largest police force in Wales, serving a population of approximately 1.3 million people across an area of 2,117 square miles. We are dedicated to keeping our communities safe and secure, and we rely on cutting-edge technology to support our operations. We have recently invested heavily in our ICT department with exciting new projects and opportunities funded by significant investment. We are going through a period of significant growth and technological change, there has never been a better time to join!

About the role:

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Database and Application Delivery Specialist. As a Database and Application Delivery Specialist, you will be a key member of the ICT Database team responsible for scoping, installing, configuring, supporting, and optimizing our databases (predominantly Microsoft SQL) of Local and National policing services within Wales and the UK police service and delivering applications to various clients. Within the role, you may supervise junior ICT Specialists, and you will play a crucial role in ensuring data integrity, security, and availability as well as driving process improvements and enhancing system performance.

The Database Specialist role works in the Technical Delivery section of the ICT Department and reports to the Database Team Manager.

Our Information and Communications Technology Department (ICT) has a wide and varied range of responsibilities from 1st line service desk, 2nd line technical support to 3rd line specialist technical architect/design. ICT are also responsible for IT Security management, Service Management, Business Support and Project Management that maintain and continuously improve critical services, software, platforms, and hardware required throughout the full IT lifecycle. This underpins the delivery of secure and timely 24/7 operations for approximately 10,000 users across 100 geographical locations supporting over 20,000 computers including multiple datacentres together with the underlying network, physical and virtual (including cloud services) IT infrastructure.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• To develop and maintain the Force's underlying Database infrastructure thereby allowing South Wales Police to function in an efficient and operationally beneficial manner.
• To analyse the performance of the database infrastructure and fine tune where applicable.
• To design, develop, test and deploy complex databases.
• Create and maintain documentation for database and application processes.
• Ensure data integrity and security for all databases.
• Provide technical support and troubleshoot issues related to database and applications.

About you:

• Must be qualified to Degree level standard or be able to demonstrate equivalent skills and abilities.
• Experience and knowledge of the following technologies, concepts, and procedures:
  • RDBMS technologies (largely Microsoft SQL Server)
  • Database Backup
  • Database Recovery
  • Database Security
  • Database Performance Tuning and Optimisation
  • Database client software configuration
  • Database Capacity Planning
• Strong knowledge of SQL databases
• Experience in database administration
• Must be aware of the strategic operational implications of effective Database technologies upon the organisation.

Benefits:

The Database Specialist role works in the Technical Delivery section of the ICT Department and reports to the Database Team Manager.

Our Information and Communications Technology Department (ICT) has a wide and varied range of responsibilities from 1st line service desk, 2nd line technical support to 3rd line specialist technical architect/design. ICT are also responsible for IT Security management, Service Management, Business Support and Project Management that maintain and continuously improve critical services, software, platforms, and hardware required throughout the full IT lifecycle. This underpins the delivery of secure and timely 24/7 operations for approximately 10,000 users across 100 geographical locations supporting over 20,000 computers including multiple datacentres together with the underlying network, physical and virtual (including cloud services) IT infrastructure.

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Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of Database Administrator (DBA), Senior Database Engineer, Data Management Specialist, Database Systems Architect, and Cloud Database Specialist may also be considered.