Database SysOps Engineer

Hargreaves Lansdown PLC; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Flexible working options

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Health care cash plans

Wellbeing services

volunteering days

Job summary

Hargreaves Lansdown PLC is seeking a Database Engineer to join our Bristol-based team. You will maintain HL's Oracle-focused database estate, contribute to automation, and support cloud adoption while ensuring secure, resilient operations across critical services.

You'll work with Linux environments, participate in on-call rotations and collaborate with security and infrastructure teams to optimise performance and reliability for business-critical systems.

Qualifications

• Experience administering Oracle databases in production environments.
• Background in RMAN-based backup, restore and disaster recovery.
• Linux server administration with strong troubleshooting and on-call readiness.
• Experience with database migrations, patching and housekeeping tasks.
• Familiarity with automation, scripting and IaC concepts.
• Experience supporting production services through incident, problem and change management processes.
• Understanding security, resilience and operational risk considerations within enterprise tech environments.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain HL's enterprise database platforms; focus on Oracle.
• Monitor performance, availability and capacity to meet business needs.
• Investigate incidents and service requests per SLAs and processes.
• Patching, maintenance and housekeeping of databases as routine tasks.
• Assist backup, recovery and disaster recovery operations.
• Follow change management for schema and configuration changes.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure and security teams.
• Support monitoring, alerting platforms and incident response.
• Contribute to automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Assist with migrations, upgrades and cloud adoption efforts.
• Create and maintain technical runbooks and documentation.

Skills

Oracle DBA

RMAN backup

Linux admin

On-call support

Scripting

Automation

Performance tuning

Security & resilience

Cloud basics

Tools

Oracle RAC

Data Guard

Ansible

PowerShell

Python

Shell scripting

AWS

Azure

Python

Shell scripting

Job description

Excited to grow your career? Our purpose is to make it easy for people to save and invest for a better future. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown. We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. We’re love to hear from you!

About the role

The Database Engineer will be responsible for supporting, maintaining and improving Hargreaves Lansdown's enterprise database platforms, with a primary focus on Oracle databases and additional exposure to MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase ASE. The role involves ensuring database services remain secure, resilient and performant through proactive administration, monitoring, incident resolution, backup and recovery management, and infrastructure change activities. Working as part of a specialist database team, the successful candidate will contribute to automation, modernisation and cloud adoption initiatives while supporting business-critical systems used across the organisation. The role requires strong Oracle administration experience, including practical experience with RMAN backup and recovery, and participation in the team's on-call support rota.

What you will be doing

• Support and maintain HL's enterprise database platforms, with a primary focus on Oracle and additional support responsibilities across MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase ASE.
• Monitor database performance, availability and capacity to ensure services continue to meet business requirements.
• Investigate and resolve incidents, service requests and technical problems in line with operational processes and service level expectations.
• Perform routine database administration activities, including patching, maintenance and housekeeping tasks.
• Support backup, recovery and disaster recovery processes across the database estate.
• Raise and implement changes through HL's change management processes.
• Work closely with application, infrastructure and security teams to support the delivery of reliable, resilient and secure services.
• Support monitoring and alerting platforms to ensure the timely detection and resolution of issues.
• Contribute to automation and continuous improvement initiatives that increase operational efficiency, consistency and service reliability.
• Assist with database migrations, platform upgrades and cloud adoption initiatives.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, procedures and operational runbooks.
• Follow technical standards, policies and operational processes.
• Contribute ideas for improving processes, reducing risk and enhancing the services provided by the Database Team.
• Participate in the team's on-call support rota and support major incident activities when required.

What success looks like

During your first year, you'll become familiar with HL's database estate, contribute to platform improvements and automation initiatives, support key operational activities, and help deliver projects that improve the resilience, security and efficiency of our database services.

About you

Experience administering Oracle database platforms in a production environment. Experience supporting business-critical systems and services. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot technical issues and identify practical solutions. Experience performing Oracle database backup, recovery and restore activities using RMAN. Experience working with Linux server environments. Experience supporting production services through incident, problem and change management processes. Understanding of security, resilience and operational risk considerations within enterprise technology environments. Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Ability to manage your own workload, balancing technical, operational and business priorities. A willingness to learn new technologies and contribute to the continuous improvement of the Database Team.

Desirable

• Experience with MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server and/or Sybase ASE.
• Experience of database performance monitoring and tuning.
• Knowledge of Oracle high availability and disaster recovery technologies, including Oracle RAC, Data Guard and Data Guard Broker.
• Exposure to automation and scripting technologies such as Ansible, PowerShell, Python or Shell scripting.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC), replication technologies or database migration tooling.
• Experience working within Financial Services or another regulated environment.
• Exposure to DevSecOps practices and Infrastructure as Code principles.

Interview process

This will be a two-stage interview process consisting of a technical interview followed by a competency-based interview.

Working Schedule

• Based in Bristol Head Office, BS2 0TR.
• This role is permanent and full-time, working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
• We offer a hybrid working pattern with a minimum of two days per week in the office.
• Participation in the team's on-call support rota is required.

Why us?

Here at HL, we’re the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we've helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments. To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's on offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus* and annual pay review
• 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care
• Health screening programme
• Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
• Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
• Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
• Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
• Two paid volunteering days per year * dependant on role level
• ** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age. This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis - please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information. Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.

Hargreaves Lansdown is the UK's number one platform for private investors. Our purpose is to empower people to save and invest with confidence, and today, we are trusted with more than £120 billion by over 1.7 million clients. We are based in the heart of Bristol now with over 2,000 colleagues. We believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams and a great ethos. We're steered by our core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do. For more information about careers at HL and to see all our vacancies, please visit our careers website.