Database Administrator

Music is Universal


It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.

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With a global footprint, the Universal Music Group Royalty and Copyright Product Team designs, develops, delivers and maintains a number of technical solutions to calculate royalty accountings in a timely and accurate manner to our valued artists. We’re also providing them with extensive and detailed visibility of their earnings from various sources of digital income. The team continuously collaborates with our international business teams to deliver innovative solutions while supporting best practices and new processes for a better royalty flow.

The Role

The Database Administrator (DBA) is responsible for the availability, security, performance, and integrity of the databases supporting UMG’s Royalty and Copyright platforms. The role manages production and non-production database environments, optimises performance, supports releases, implements backup and disaster recovery strategies, and works closely with engineering and business teams to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable services.

Key Responsibilities

· Administer enterprise database platforms (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server).

· Monitor database health, availability, performance, and capacity.

· Implement backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.

· Manage database security, access control, and compliance.

· Optimise SQL queries and database performance.

· Support application deployments and production releases.

· Automate routine administration tasks.

· Collaborate with developers, architects, and infrastructure teams.

Skills and Experience required

Must have

· Strong SQL and database administration experience.

· Experience with performance tuning and optimisation.

· Knowledge of backup, replication, and high availability technologies.

· Experience implementing AWS Cloud watch Alerts

· Experience with AWS, or cloud database services Aurora RDS.

· Scripting with PowerShell, Python, or Bash.

· Strong troubleshooting and stakeholder communication skills.

Nice to Have

· DevOps and CI/CD experience.

· Experience of supporting a transactional Database

· Experience with data warehouses.

· AWS cloud certifications.

· Music industry experience.

Key Behavioral/Personality Traits

A proactive, detail-oriented professional with excellent analytical skills, a continuous improvement mindset, and the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.

Just So You Know…

The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.

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