Levy Global
IT Database Engineer
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IT Database Engineer
London (Hybrid 2–3 days onsite)
Contract | 6 Months
Seeking an experienced IT Database Engineer to join our client's growing infrastructure team. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment where you'll be responsible for supporting, administering, and securing critical production databases. You'll play a key role in ensuring high availability, performance, and resilience across the database estate while contributing to ongoing infrastructure and database projects.
What you'll be doing
- Administering and supporting production database environments
- Managing database security, backups, recovery, and performance tuning
- Supporting high availability and disaster recovery solutions
- Working closely with technical teams and business stakeholders to deliver robust database solutions
- Contributing to database upgrades, maintenance, monitoring, and capacity planning
- Assisting with automation and continuous improvement initiatives
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Must haves:
- 5+ years' experience as a Production Database Administrator or Database Engineer.
- Strong experience with at least two of the following:
- Microsoft SQL Server
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- Experience administering ClickHouse.
- Experience administering Snowflake.
- Experience with database monitoring, backup & recovery, performance tuning, and disaster recovery.
- Strong understanding of database security, permissions, and access management.
- Experience writing SQL (T-SQL, PL/SQL or similar)
- Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments.
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Nice to have:
- PowerShell, Shell scripting, or Python.
- Ansible or other automation tools.
- Cloud database administration (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
- Experience within financial services, asset management, or another highly regulated environment.
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