Job Title: Database Engineer / Database Platform Engineer
Location: London – Hybrid working
Job Type: Contract / Full-Time – Long term contract
Salary / Day Rate: £230
Working setup: Hybrid – minimum 3 days onsite
Industry Sector: Financial Services / Banking
Candidates must have the right to work in the United Kingdom
Introduction:
We're looking for a Database Engineer to join a major technology transformation programme within financial services.
This is a hands-on engineering role – not a traditional DBA position . You'll work across Oracle, PostgreSQL and NoSQL platforms , helping build, automate and optimise highly available enterprise database environments.
If you enjoy automation, performance tuning, modern DevOps and solving complex database challenges , this role offers the opportunity to work at significant enterprise scale.
Key Responsibilities:
Engineer and support Oracle and PostgreSQL database platforms.
Work with Cassandra, MongoDB and/or Couchbase .
Automate database provisioning, configuration and deployments.
Implement Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices.
Optimise database performance, queries and indexing.
Support high availability, replication and resilience.
Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
Partner with developers, architects and infrastructure teams.
Support database migrations and technology modernisation.
Develop reusable tooling and automation to eliminate manual DBA processes.
Required Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
Experience as a Database Engineer / DBA .
Hands-on Oracle and PostgreSQL experience.
Experience with at least one NoSQL/distributed database – Cassandra, MongoDB or Couchbase.
Strong SQL, performance tuning and troubleshooting skills.
Experience with replication, clustering and high availability.
Strong automation/scripting skills – Python, Shell, Ansible or Terraform .
Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and Git .
Enterprise production experience with business-critical systems.
Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
Desirable Skills and Experience:
Strong Cassandra experience.
Financial services / banking experience.
Cloud platforms – AWS, Azure or GCP .
Kubernetes / containerised databases.
Database migration and modernisation experience.
Experience across multiple NoSQL technologies.
Cloud / DevOps certifications.
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