Senior Database Engineer

Are you an experienced Senior Database Engineer ?

Do you have strong DBA skills across Oracle and SQL Server ?

This is initially a 12 month contract, daily rate is up to £589 (Inside IR35) You can be based anywhere in the UK as this is a remote contract however you need to be open to an occasional visit to Glasgow / Newcastle

Please only apply for this role if you have the ‘right to work’ in the UK with no Visa restrictions.

You responsibilities will include:

• Provide database support & maintenance of many critical production services, which spans across multiple database technologies (predominately Oracle & SQL Server).
• Provide database administrative support and guidance in the shape of:

Database lifecycle support (provisioning / deletion / patching / upgrading / migrating)

Back-up and Recovery

Monitoring and Alerting

Change and Incident Management

Troubleshooting and Problem Solving

Tuning and Optimisation

Disaster Recovery

• Improving our processes through process automation, innovation and continuous improvement.

Required experience:

• A strong understanding and experience of database administration (across Oracle and SQL Server) in a Production setting.
• An ability to troubleshoot Production issues in an analytical manner and make recommendations to resolve issues and/or deliver enhancements.
• Experience of undertaking database builds, patching, migrations and upgrades.
• Experience of High Availability and Disaster Recovery Methods including setup, troubleshooting and support – Oracle RAC, Oracle Restart, ASM, Oracle Data Guard & SQL Server Always on High Availability.
• Database Performance Tuning and Optimisation skills.
• Experience of using Oracle Enterprise Manager.
• Oracle / Red Hat Linux, Windows, AIX, and Solaris Operating System experience.

Advantageous to have:

• Cloud experience(Oracle OCI, Oracle Exadata Cloud @ Customer and/or Microsoft Azure) with an awareness of emerging industry trends such as PAAS. DBAS, IAAS.
• SQL Replication experience.
• Awareness of Flashback technologies.
• Experience of Dynatrace tooling.
• Awareness of Windows Failover Clustering.
• Previous experience of working with other database technologies aside from Oracle and SQL Server.

For more information get in touch as soon as possible.