Innova Solutions
Database Engineer
London
Posted about 13 hours ago
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Senior Data Engineer / Database Engineer (DBA)
Location: Burgess Hill, UK or London, UK
Onsite Requirement: Hybrid (3 days onsite a week)
Employment Type: Contract (Inside IR35)
Industry: Financial Services / Capital Markets / Banking
Key Responsibilities
- Configure, deploy, administer and support enterprise relational and NoSQL database platforms.
- Build and maintain database environments across development, test, staging and production.
- Automate database provisioning, configuration and deployment activities.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code and configuration management practices.
- Integrate database deployments into CI/CD pipelines.
- Manage database schemas, users, roles, permissions and access controls.
- Monitor database availability, performance, capacity and operational health.
- Troubleshoot query performance, indexing, execution plans, locking, replication and connectivity issues.
- Support high availability, resilience, replication and disaster recovery.
- Participate in production incident management and root-cause analysis.
- Support database migrations, upgrades and technology modernisation initiatives.
- Work closely with application engineers, Data Architects and infrastructure teams.
- Develop reusable database engineering standards, automation and operational procedures.
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Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on database engineering / DBA experience in enterprise environments.
- Strong production experience with Oracle and PostgreSQL.
- Hands-on experience with at least one enterprise NoSQL platform such as Cassandra, MongoDB or Couchbase.
- Strong database performance tuning and troubleshooting experience.
- Experience with database provisioning, configuration, upgrades and deployment.
- Strong automation and scripting skills using technologies such as Python, Shell, Ansible or Terraform.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
- Experience integrating database deployments into CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of database security, access control and vulnerability remediation.
- Experience supporting highly available, business-critical production environments.
- Strong understanding of backup/recovery, replication, resilience and disaster recovery.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with application teams, architects and engineering functions.
- Ability to work onsite a minimum of 3 days per week in London or Burgess Hill.
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Desirable
- Financial Services, Banking, Capital Markets or Investment Banking experience.
- Experience with large Cassandra clusters or distributed database platforms.
- Kubernetes/containerised database environments.
- Cloud or hybrid database platforms.
- Database migration and modernisation programmes.
- Relevant database, cloud or DevOps certifications.
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