Responsibilities: Monitors database activity ensuring that they are: Available; every effort should be made to ensure that databases are up and running and available during their operating hours for the users Secure; only those authorised are permitted access and only to the content that is pertinent to their roles Recoverable; regular backups must be taken to ensure that in the event of disaster, the data can be recovered/recreated and allow the service to resume as normal Error free; any issues that impact functionality, data integrity or data access must be identified and resolved Performant; any bottlenecks that negatively impact database performance must be identified, escalated, and resolved. This potentially will require collaborating with multiple teams such as Wintel, Linux, storage and network teams Develop tools to aid with: Event monitoring; where issues have been identified and no available tooling is able to provide monitoring of the event the DBA will aid in developing appropriate tools to automate identifying reoccurring or similar issues so they can be rectified quickly Capacity monitoring/planning; using both available and develop new tooling to periodically record CPU, memory usage and disk usage.