Database Administrator-SRE

Job Title: DBA SRE

Hiring Location: UK

Duration: 6 months Contract Inside IR35

Working Mode: Fully Remote

As part of the Cloud Team, the Database Administrator's primary focus is delivering cloud-related database services and products to internal customers.

They are responsible for providing end-to-end database support for cloud services through monitoring, incident response, and incident resolution for the Public and Private Cloud Platform environment. They also support incidents affecting hosted database workloads by providing these services to the owning teams who are customers of the database platforms in a timely manner.

They monitor the databases to ensure availability, reliability, security, and performance, responding to incidents and escalating them to the appropriate teams as required to meet SLAs.

They follow incident, change, release, and problem management processes. Participating in and driving root cause analysis on incidents to ensure issues are addressed promptly using those processes to continually seek improvement in the stability of the environment for all customers.

They are experts in observability, responsible for centralized database platform monitoring and alerting tooling, setting direction and enabling greater observability for all.

They seek to use automation to remove repetitive tasks, developing runbooks and playbooks for use across the organization. They are experts in Cloud operations in cloud environments, using that expertise to support development teams in taking on more database operations responsibilities and driving DevOps practices to enable the company to efficiently scale cloud workloads.

Responsibilities
Physical Database Support (IaaS)

Database Systems Administration:

Responsible for database backup and recovery (verification checks), examine logs and alerts, maintain access rights and roles, database instance version control.
Base Database Monitoring:

Essential manual/script technical items (e.g., service/process up/down etc.).
Database Structural Maintenance:

Responsible for database space and storage management, database object management, physical database layout, and temporary space management.
Patch Management:

Identification, testing, packaging, and application of necessary security updates, support packs, and other updates associated with supported databases.
Engineering Support:

Management and support of database environment provided by engineers with deep technical skills and problem-solving acumen, given inclusion in and visibility to current and historical changes to the environment.
Physical Database Support (PaaS)

Advise on best practices for production operation of Database PaaS environments.

Implement database maintenance plans and ensure optimal production configuration is in place.

Database Systems Administration:

Responsible for database backup and recovery, examine logs and alerts, maintain access rights and roles, security group management, provisioning new databases.
Base Database Monitoring:

Service availability health check error monitoring setup of CloudWatch alerts.
Engineering Support:

Management and support of database environment provided by engineers with deep technical skills and problem-solving acumen, given inclusion in and visibility to current and historical changes to the environment.
Skill Matrix:
Skills:

Experience:

(In Years):

Write-up of skills:

Database Administration:

MS SQL Server / Oracle
Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP):

Terraform
Key Skills:

Databases
Disaster Recovery
SQL
High Availability
Microsoft SQL Server
SSRS
Database Design
Performance Tuning
SSIS
Database Administration
Sybase
Oracle
Employment Type:

Full Time

Vacancy:

1