Database Administrator

JR United Kingdom; Bedford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the FinTech sector is seeking a Database Administrator for a 6-month contract with possible extension. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in managing PostgreSQL and Oracle databases, alongside hands-on experience with cloud services such as AWS. Responsibilities include optimizing database performance, ensuring high availability, and implementing security best practices.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience as a PostgreSQL and Oracle DBA in production environments.
• Significant experience of migrating database workloads to Postgres from Oracle.
• Solid understanding of database security principles and compliance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Manage, configure, and optimise PostgreSQL databases hosted on Amazon Aurora.
• Support the migration of mission-critical databases to AWS Aurora Postgres.
• Implement and maintain strong security standards for compliance.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Oracle

AWS

Database Security

Database Performance Tuning

Query Optimization

Terraform

CloudFormation

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Database Administrator - to join a global FinTech on a 6-month contract with possible extension.

The role requires hands-on technical expertise and strong collaboration with developers, architects, and DevOps teams to ensure our data infrastructure aligns with business needs and industry standards.

Your Responsibilities

• Manage, configure and optimise PostgreSQL databases hosted on Amazon Aurora and Oracle databases hosted on on-premise Exadatas and AWS RDS.
• Support the migration of high-performance, mission-critical databases from on-premise Exadata's to AWS Aurora Postgres.
• Support workloads on other database engines in AWS, including MySQL, MariaDB and SQL Server. Implement and maintain strong security standards to ensure compliance with PCI DSS and other regulatory requirements.
• Implement security best practices, including user management, encryption and auditing.
• Design and implement database schemas, partitioning strategies and indexing solutions.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery and scalability of database systems.
• Configure strong monitoring and management processes and tooling to help troubleshoot and resolve complex database issues in Real Time.
• Hands-on experience as a PostgreSQL and Oracle DBA in production environments.
• Significant experience of migrating database workloads to Postgres from Oracle.
• Deep understanding of PostgreSQL architecture, including replication, clustering and indexing strategies, and a strong understanding of Postgres' vacuum/MVCC process.
• Proven experience with query optimization and database performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, and IAM.
• Solid understanding of database security principles and compliance frameworks
• Experience implementing robust backup and recovery strategies.
• Proficiency with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar.
• Experience of database replication tooling such as AWS DMS and Goldengate.
• Experience of collaborating with DevOps teams to integrate databases into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) frameworks like Terraform.

Please APPLY NOW for immediate consideration!!!