Senior Database Engineer
Are you an experienced Senior Database Engineer ?
Do you have strong DBA skills across Oracle and SQL Server ?
This is initially a 12 month contract, daily rate is up to £589 (Inside IR35) You can be based anywhere in the UK as this is a remote contract however you need to be open to an occasional visit to Glasgow / Newcastle
Please only apply for this role if you have the ‘right to work’ in the UK with no Visa restrictions.
You responsibilities will include:
• Provide database support & maintenance of many 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.
Required 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.
Advantageous to have:
• Cloud experience(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.
• Previous experience of working with other database technologies aside from Oracle and SQL Server.
For more information get in touch as soon as possible.
