Senior Database Engineer: Automation & Platform Resilience

Skipton Building Society; Skipton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave + bank holidays +

Pension contribution up to 10%

Private medical insurance

Flexible working

Home and Tech voucher

Job summary

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Senior Database Engineer in the UK to design, deploy and evolve secure, scalable data platforms. You’ll lead automation efforts, drive reliability and mentor engineers while supporting governance and disaster recovery strategies.

You’ll work in a hybrid setup, three days in the Skipton office with two days remotely, contributing to modernising the organisation’s data services and resilience across the technology estate.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience administering enterprise database platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, Managed Instance or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of database architecture, performance tuning, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Experience designing and implementing backup, restore and business continuity solutions.
• Proven ability to automate database administration tasks using PowerShell, Python, SQL scripting or similar technologies.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and database deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Designing, deploying and evolving highly available, secure and scalable database platforms.
• Shaping database architecture, standards and engineering practices to support current and future business needs.
• Leading improvements in database automation, infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines and operational tooling.
• Driving platform reliability through proactive monitoring, performance optimisation, capacity management and resilience testing.
• Investigating and resolving complex database incidents, conducting root cause analysis and implementing preventative measures.
• Establishing and maintaining database governance, security controls, backup, recovery and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Working closely with engineering, architecture and delivery teams to ensure data platforms are easy to consume, operate and support.
• Mentoring Database Engineers and other technical colleagues, sharing knowledge and coaching best practices.
• Participation in a rotating on-call schedule, acting as an escalation point for critical platform incidents and contributing to the operational excellence and resilience of our cloud services.
• Contributing to communities of practice and helping raise engineering maturity across the organisation.
• Identifying opportunities to reduce operational overhead through automation, standardisation and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Microsoft SQL Server

Azure SQL

Database architecture

Automation

DevOps/CI-CD

On-call/Incident response

Tools

PowerShell

Python

SQL scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Job description

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Senior Database Engineer in the UK to design, deploy and evolve secure, scalable data platforms. You’ll lead automation efforts, drive reliability and mentor engineers while supporting governance and disaster recovery strategies.

You’ll work in a hybrid setup, three days in the Skipton office with two days remotely, contributing to modernising the organisation’s data services and resilience across the technology estate.