Senior Database Engineer

Discipline: IT
Job type: Contract
Contact name: Gary Simpson

Contact email: gary.simpson@change-digital.co.uk
Contact phone: 0141 5668922
Job ref: 142052
Published: 4 days ago
Expiry date: 21 Feb 2025 23:59

Are you an experienced Senior Database Engineer ?

Do you have strong DBA skills across Oracle and SQL Server ?

This is initially a 6 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.