Database Specialist

Innova Solutions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 92,000 - 157,000; Part time

Job summary

Innova Solutions is seeking a seasoned Database Engineer/DBA in London or Burgess Hill for a hybrid contract role. You will design, deploy and operate enterprise databases, including Oracle and PostgreSQL, plus NoSQL clusters, with strong automation and CI/CD integration. A minimum of 3 on-site days weekly is expected.

You will collaborate with data architects and infra teams to implement IaC, ensure security, and drive modernisation initiatives across production environments.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with Oracle and PostgreSQL in enterprise environments.
• Experience with NoSQL platforms such as Cassandra, MongoDB or Couchbase.
• Strong automation and scripting with Python, Shell, Ansible or Terraform.
• Experience integrating database deployments into CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of database security, access control and vulnerability remediation.

Responsibilities

• Configure, deploy, administer and support relational and NoSQL databases.
• Build and maintain database environments across development, test, staging and production.
• Automate provisioning, configuration and deployment activities.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and configuration management practices.
• Manage schemas, users, roles, permissions and access controls.
• Monitor availability, performance, capacity and health.
• Troubleshoot performance, indexing, replication and connectivity issues.
• Support high availability, resilience, replication and DR.
• Participate in incident management and root-cause analysis.
• Work with application engineers, Data Architects and infra teams.

Skills

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Cassandra

MongoDB

Couchbase

Python

Shell

Ansible

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Cloud / Hybrid

Tools

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Cassandra

MongoDB

Couchbase

Python

Shell

Ansible

Terraform

CI/CD tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Location: Burgess Hill, UK or London, UK

Onsite Requirement: Hybrid (3 days onsite a week)

Employment Type: Contract (Inside IR35)

Industry: Financial Services / Capital Markets / Banking

Key Responsibilities

• Configure, deploy, administer and support enterprise relational and NoSQL database platforms.
• Build and maintain database environments across development, test, staging and production.
• Automate database provisioning, configuration and deployment activities.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and configuration management practices.
• Manage database schemas, users, roles, permissions and access controls.
• Monitor database availability, performance, capacity and operational health.
• Troubleshoot query performance, indexing, execution plans, locking, replication and connectivity issues.
• Support high availability, resilience, replication and disaster recovery.
• Participate in production incident management and root-cause analysis.
• Support database migrations, upgrades and technology modernisation initiatives.
• Work closely with application engineers, Data Architects and infrastructure teams.
• Develop reusable database engineering standards, automation and operational procedures.
• Strong hands-on database engineering / DBA experience in enterprise environments.
• Strong production experience with Oracle and PostgreSQL.
• Hands-on experience with at least one enterprise NoSQL platform such as Cassandra, MongoDB or Couchbase.
• Strong database performance tuning and troubleshooting experience.
• Experience with database provisioning, configuration, upgrades and deployment.
• Strong automation and scripting skills using technologies such as Python, Shell, Ansible or Terraform.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
• Experience integrating database deployments into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of database security, access control and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience supporting highly available, business-critical production environments.
• Strong understanding of backup/recovery, replication, resilience and disaster recovery.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with application teams, architects and engineering functions.
• Ability to work onsite a minimum of 3 days per week in London or Burgess Hill.
• Financial Services, Banking, Capital Markets or Investment Banking experience.
• Experience with large Cassandra clusters or distributed database platforms.
• Kubernetes/containerised database environments.
• Cloud or hybrid database platforms.
• Database migration and modernisation programmes.
• Relevant database, cloud or DevOps certifications.