Senior Database Engineer in London

SummaryWe are looking for a hands‐on DBA Lead who can assume a pivotal role of leading a small team of DBAs responsible for the commissioning and operation of a varied database landscape. The successful candidate will have proven experience in working with Agile technologies, strong knowledge of scripting methodologies and techniques, and will identify pain points, repetitive tasks and inefficient coding to replace them with DevOps automation using best practices – an absolute must. Sybase (Sybase ASE, IQ & Rep) and MS SQL expertise are essential. Exposure to Oracle is a strong plus, as is knowledge of open‐source technologies. The role includes weekend out‐of‐hours cover as part of the DBA team roster.

Responsibilities

Provide technical direction and guidance, recommending improvements to the current infrastructure platforms where appropriate

Ensure regular and clear updates on systems performance, management and maintenance

Work closely to ensuring alignment with the DevOps capability within the internal development team wherever relevant

Organise available resources and tasks across the team to address platform delivery timescales and risks

Co‐ordination, mentoring and technical leadership of a team of DBAs

Co‐ordination of life‐cycle management through delivery of roadmaps and 3rd party support agreements

Attendance of problem management sessions, managing 3rd parties and technical reviews for existing and proposed infrastructure as well as small project activities

Drive automation and efficiencies using scripting and a DevOps approach wherever possible

Manage support and escalations, incidents and root cause analysis

Owner of the DB refresh process across all environments (dev/test/uat/prod)

Technical skills transfer to colleagues both UK and abroad

Support, influence and guide external service providers/internal work streams to a successful outcome

Develop and implement administration standards and procedures

Create gap analysis based on operational input on current DBA infrastructure performance

Skills

Excellent communicator with the ability to convey technical issues to all levels

Thorough knowledge of DBA concepts and best practices

Knowledge of IS Architecture concepts and strategies as part of the Enterprise Content responsibility

Solid understanding of database design

Expert level on Sybase ASE, IQ and Rep server

Experienced with scripting using shell scripting (ksh, bash)

Ability to think strategically and perform risk analysis

Ability to accept change and adapt organizational change and shifting priorities

High work standards with a quality orientation

Working as part of a team whilst showing an ability to work on own initiative

Good customer liaison skills and awareness of business requirements

Builds and maintains strong relationships with leaders, customers, and team members

Attention to detail

Good problem solving

The ability to think quickly under pressure

Education & Experience RequirementsQualified to degree standard or able to demonstrate reasonable experience in a similar role

Essential

Experience of leading medium sized teams

Subject matter expert in SAP (Sybase) ASE, RepServer & IQ

Strong experience with MS SQL

Strong experience with SQL programming

Thorough understanding of shell scripting (bash, ksh and python)

Strong experience with RedHat Linux

Experienced with database replication

Experience managing Delphix data platform

Experienced with database clustering, high availability and disaster recovery

Proven experience of migrating to and managing IQ workloads in SAP Hana Cloud

Familiarity with Azure SQL administration, tuning and optimisation, Azure security and Azure automation and scripting

Scripting of DB snapshotting automation (leveraging REST APIs, Pure storage)

Desirable

Experienced with Oracle technologies

Good understanding of Kubernetes technology

Knowledge of open‐source technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB

Project management experience

Understanding of Intel Windows server technology (Windows 2022 administration)

Basic understanding of current and emerging Microsoft Technologies

Basic networking skills LAN/WAN, TCP/IP

Seniority levelMid‐Senior level

Employment typeFull‐time

Job functionInformation Technology

IndustriesMining

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