Job Description
Snr Database Engineer | 6 Month Contract | (Inside IR35) | Remote | Starting ASAP
Day Rate: £589
Main Duties:
To provide effective and proactive database support & maintenance of many of the bank's 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.
Collaboration with other teams and escalating where necessary to Lead Database Engineers to ensure operational issues are resolved within agreed SLAs.
Essential Skills & 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.
To display collaborative behaviours and excellent verbal / written communication skills.
ITIL Service Management awareness (Incident, Change & Problem Management processes).
Desirable:
Experience of managing databases (including patching, maintenance, and support of the appliances themselves) within cloud or cloud @ customer environments (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.
Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery.
Experience of Dell Data Domain Boost.
Previous experience of working with other database technologies aside from Oracle and SQL Server.
This role has been deemed Inside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.
JBRP1_UKTJ