Database Engineer
24 month contract
Inside IR35 - Paying up to £40 per hour via umbrella.
Location: Hybrid - 3 days per week in office in London or Sussex
Responsibilities
- Configuring, deploying, administering and supporting enterprise relational and NoSQL database platforms.
- Provide engineering and operational support across, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra and Couchbase
- Build, configure and maintain database environments across development, test, staging and production.
- Develop automated and repeatable approaches for database provisioning, configuration, deployment and lifecycle management.
- Implement database configuration and infrastructure through code wherever practical, reducing manual administration and configuration drift.
- Support database deployments through CI/CD pipelines and automated release processes.
- Perform database installation, upgrades, patching and version management.
- Manage database schemas, users, roles, permissions and access controls.
- Support database security, vulnerability remediation, encryption and compliance requirements.
- Monitor database availability, capacity, performance and operational health.
- Investigate and resolve database performance issues, including, Query, performance, Indexing, Execution plans, Locking and contention, Connection management, Storage and capacity and Replication performance.
- Participate in production incident management, root-cause analysis and problem management.
- Work with Data Architects and application architects to ensure database implementations align with agreed data models and architectural standards.
- Support database migrations, platform upgrades and technology modernisation initiatives.
- Develop and maintain database engineering standards, operational procedures, runbooks and technical documentation.
- Identify opportunities to simplify and standardise the database estate through common engineering patterns, tooling and automation.
- Contribute to capacity planning, technology lifecycle management and database platform roadmaps.
Requirements
- A hands-on database engineer with strong DBA fundamentals.
- Experienced across both relational and NoSQL database technologies.
- Strong in Oracle and PostgreSQL with practical exposure to Cassandra, MongoDB and/or Couchbase.
- Comfortable configuring and supporting highly available, distributed database environments.
- Automation-focused and motivated to replace manual DBA activities with repeatable engineering solutions.
- Experienced with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and modern DevOps engineering practices.
- Comfortable working across development, test and production environments.
- Experienced in performance tuning, troubleshooting and production incident resolution.
- Security and resilience conscious, with experience supporting controlled enterprise environments.
- Comfortable collaborating with Data Architects, application engineers, infrastructure teams and production support functions.
- Experienced in large-scale financial services or similarly regulated environments.
- Able to balance engineering change with the stability and operational requirements of business-critical production systems.
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