- Be uniquely you, come as you are
- Love what you do and leave your mark
- Hybrid/Flexible working
As a Senior Database Administrator, you will play a crucial role in designing, optimising and managing a diverse range of databases across the Azure, GCP and on-prem environments. You’ll collaborate closely with Infrastructure, Application Services,DevOps and Architecture teams to integrate robust database solutions that meet both business demands and operational requirements. In addition to engineering new solutions, you will play a crucial role in ensuring high availability, scalability and performance especially during peak trading periods.
If you're passionate about cutting-edge technologies and have a proven track record of delivering scalable database solutions while ensuring the reliability of business critical systems, we encourage you to apply.
Sound good? Read on.
Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:
Design and build database patterns spanning technologies like SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Azure SQL MI, Azure PostgreSQL, MongoDB Atlas and Oracle.
Work closely with the architecture team to implement database standards and patterns in new application designs.
Work with DevOps to deploy database solutions via Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Develop a database roadmap in collaboration with the Cloud Platforms and Services owner.
Create a database lifecycle management framework to ensure all databases are regularly patched and kept up-to-date.
Performance tune the fleet of databases to ensure they meet the needs of applications and business functions, helping achieve critical business objectives.
Ensure databases are secure by design, implementing security benchmarks and data encryption where required.
Develop and maintain a robust backup strategy to ensure restore and recovery capabilities for all databases to deal with any disaster scenarios.
Ensure databases are highly available and scalable and can handle peak trading periods seamlessly.
Collaborate with major incident management and other key stakeholders to efficiently resolve production issues, ensuring the stability, reliability and performance of business-critical applications.
