Database/Data Engineer

Salt Digital Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt Digital Recruitment is seeking a Senior Database Engineer in London to design, engineer and deploy Oracle, PostgreSQL and NoSQL solutions. You will automate provisioning and deployments, integrate changes into CI/CD pipelines and work with development teams across production environments.

The role emphasises automation, resilience, security and modern engineering practices within a financial services context. Hybrid onsite work with frequent collaboration with architects and infra teams.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Oracle and PostgreSQL experience.
• Experience with Cassandra, MongoDB or Couchbase.
• Database engineering, performance tuning and troubleshooting skills.
• Automation with Terraform, Ansible, Python and/or Shell.
• IaC, CI/CD and Git experience.
• Experience supporting highly available, business-critical systems.
• Financial services or regulated environment is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and deploy Oracle, PostgreSQL and NoSQL database solutions.
• Build and configure database environments from development to production.
• Automate database provisioning, configuration and deployments.
• Integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines.
• Support performance tuning, query optimisation and troubleshooting.
• Ensure high availability, security and recovery planning.
• Assist migrations, upgrades and modernisation initiatives.

Skills

Oracle DB

PostgreSQL

Cassandra

MongoDB

Couchbase

Automation

CI/CD

Git

Python

Shell

Job description

Data/ Database Engineer - RDBMS & NoSQL Hybrid - 3 days onsite | Financial Services | Contract / Permanent

We're looking for an experienced Senior Database Engineer to join a major financial services technology and data transformation programme. This is not a traditional BAU DBA role. You'll work closely with application teams and Data Architects to design, engineer and deploy database solutions into production, with a strong focus on automation, standardisation and modern engineering practices.

What You'll Be Doing

• Engineer and deploy Oracle, PostgreSQL and NoSQL database solutions
• Work with Cassandra, MongoDB and/or Couchbase
• Build and configure database environments across development through to production
• Automate database provisioning, configuration and deployments
• Integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines
• Support performance tuning, query optimisation and complex troubleshooting
• Engineer for high availability, resilience, security and recovery
• Support database migrations, upgrades and modernisation initiatives
• Work closely with developers, architects and infrastructure teams

What We're Looking For

• Strong hands-on Oracle and PostgreSQL experience
• Experience with at least one of Cassandra, MongoDB or Couchbase
• Strong database engineering, performance tuning and troubleshooting skills
• Automation experience using Terraform, Ansible, Python and/or Shell
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and Git
• Experience supporting highly available, business-critical systems
• Strong understanding of database security, resilience and operational risk
• Financial services, banking, capital markets or another regulated environment is highly desirable

The Person

You'll be a strong DBA who has evolved into a modern Database Engineer - technically hands-on, automation-focused and keen to replace repetitive manual processes with reliable, reusable engineering solutions.