Senior Database Engineer - Automation, Cloud & Resilience

Skipton Building Society; South Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

25 days annual leave

Pension match

Private medical insurance

Flexible working

Wellbeing benefits

Home & Tech voucher

Job summary

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to design, deploy and evolve secure, highly available database platforms across the technology estate. You will mentor engineers, implement automation and drive governance to support resilient data services.

Join a platform-focused team that emphasizes automation, on-call readiness, and continuous improvement, with blended working options and a clear path to technical leadership within Skipton.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience administering enterprise database platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, Managed Instance or similar.
• Strong understanding of database architecture, performance tuning, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Experience designing backup, restore and business continuity solutions.
• Proven ability to automate database administration tasks using PowerShell, Python, SQL scripting or similar technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and database deployment automation.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills for complex incidents.
• Knowledge of database security, governance and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to balance technical excellence with pragmatic business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Designing, deploying and evolving highly available, secure and scalable database platforms.
• Shaping database architecture, standards and engineering practices to support business needs.
• Leading improvements in database automation, infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines and tooling.
• Driving platform reliability through monitoring, performance optimisation, capacity management and resilience testing.
• Investigating and resolving complex database incidents and root-cause analysis.
• Establishing and maintaining database governance, security controls, backup, recovery and DR capabilities.
• Working with engineering and delivery teams to ensure data platforms are easy to use and support.
• Mentoring Database Engineers and sharing best practices.
• On-call rotation participation and incident escalation.
• Contributing to communities of practice and raising engineering maturity.

Skills

Enterprise database platforms

SQL Server

Azure SQL

Database architecture

Automation

Platform engineering

Mentoring

CI/CD

On-call support

Security & governance

Tools

PowerShell

Python

SQL scripting

Job description

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to design, deploy and evolve secure, highly available database platforms across the technology estate. You will mentor engineers, implement automation and drive governance to support resilient data services.

Join a platform-focused team that emphasizes automation, on-call readiness, and continuous improvement, with blended working options and a clear path to technical leadership within Skipton.