Database Administrator

JR United Kingdom; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Une entreprise FinTech mondiale recherche un Database Administrator pour un contrat de 6 mois pouvant être prolongé. Vous serez responsable de la gestion des bases de données, de la migration vers AWS et de l'optimisation des performances, garantissant sécurité et conformité des systèmes.

Qualifications

• Expérience pratique en tant que DBA PostgreSQL et Oracle en environnement de production.
• Compréhension approfondie de l'architecture PostgreSQL et des pratiques de sécurité.
• Expérience significative dans la migration de bases de données vers PostgreSQL depuis Oracle.

Responsibilities

• Gérer et optimiser les bases de données PostgreSQL et Oracle.
• Supporter la migration vers AWS Aurora Postgres.
• Mettre en œuvre des stratégies de sécurité et de récupération.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Oracle

AWS

Database Security

Terraform

CloudFormation

Query Optimization

Database Performance Tuning

Tools

AWS EC2

AWS S3

CloudWatch

Datadog

AWS DMS

Goldengate

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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!!!