IT Database Engineer

Seeking an experienced IT Database Enginee r 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

Must haves:

• 5+ years' experience as a Production Database Administrator or Database Engineer.


• Strong experience with at least t wo of the following:


• Microsoft SQL Server


• Oracle


• 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.

Nice to have:

• Administering ClickHouse and Snowflake.


• 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.