Database Administrator-SRE

Axiom Software Solutions Limited; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software solutions provider is seeking a DBA SRE for a 6-month contract in the UK. The role involves delivering cloud-related database services and products to internal customers, monitoring database availability and performance, and automating tasks to enhance efficiency. Candidates must have experience in database administration and cloud services. This is a fully remote position.

Qualifications

• Experience in database backup, recovery, and administration.
• Proven expertise in cloud services and incident response.
• Strong understanding of database monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end database support for cloud services.
• Monitor databases to ensure availability and performance.
• Implement database maintenance plans for production environments.

Skills

Database Administration

Cloud Services Monitoring

Incident Management

Automation Development

DevOps Practices

Job description

Overview

Job Title: DBA SRE

Hiring Location: UK

Duration: 6-months Contract Inside IR35

Working Mode: Fully Remote

Job Description: As part of the Cloud Team the Database Administrator primary focus is the delivery of cloud related database services and products to internal customers. They provide end-to-end database support for cloud services through monitoring, incident response, and incident resolution for the Public and Private Cloud Platform environment. They also support incidents affecting hosted database workloads by providing these services to the owning teams who are customers of the database Platforms, in a timely manner. They monitor the databases to ensure availability, reliability, security and performance, responding to incidents and escalating them to the appropriate teams as required to ensure SLA's are met. They follow incident, change, release, and problem management processes, participating and driving root cause analysis on incidents to ensure issues are addressed in a timely manner, using those processes to continually seek to improve the stability of the environment for all customers. They are experts in observability, responsible for centralised database platform monitoring and alerting tooling, setting the direction and enabling greater observability for all. They seek to use automation to remove repetitive tasks, developing Run books and Playbooks for use across the organisation. They are the experts in Cloud operations in cloud environments, using that expertise to support development teams in taking on more database operations responsibilities and driving DevOps practices to enable the company to efficiently scale cloud workloads.

Responsibilities

• Physical Database Support (IaaS)
• Database Systems Administration: responsible for database backup and recovery (verification, checks), examine logs and alerts, maintain access rights and roles, database instance version control.
• Base Database Monitoring: essential, manual / script technical items (e.g., service/process up-down).
• Detection and notification of critical database events based on monitoring.
• Database Structural Maintenance: responsible for database space and storage management, database object management, physical database layout and temporary space management.
• Patch Management: identification, testing, packaging and application of security updates, support packs, and other updates associated with supported databases.
• Engineering Support: management and support of database environment provided by engineers with deep technical skills, with visibility to current and historical changes to the environment.

• Physical Database Support (PaaS)
• Advise on best practices for production operation of Database PaaS environments
• Implement database maintenance plans and ensure optimal production configuration is in place
• Database Systems Administration: backup and recovery, examine logs and alerts, maintain access rights and roles, security group management, provisioning new databases
• Base Database Monitoring: service availability, health check, error monitoring, setup of CloudWatch alerts
• Engineering Support: management and support of database environment provided by engineers with deep technical skills and problem-solving acumen given inclusion in and visibility to current and historical changes to the environment
• On-call participation as required