Senior Database Engineer - Automation & Resilience Lead

Skipton Building Society; Skipton; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Flexible working

Private medical insurance

Pension

Cycle-to-work

Home and Tech voucher

Job summary

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to design, implement and evolve secure, scalable database platforms within a hybrid work model. You will lead automation, governance and resilience initiatives, mentoring engineers while ensuring data services are reliable and cost-efficient.

You’ll apply expertise across SQL Server, Azure SQL and related technologies, shaping architecture and deployment pipelines to meet current and future business needs.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience administering enterprise database platforms such as 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.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and database deployment automation.
• Knowledge of database security principles, governance controls and regulatory requirements.

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.

Skills

SQL Server

Azure SQL

Managed Instance

PowerShell

Python

SQL scripting

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Monitoring

Disaster recovery

Job description

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to design, implement and evolve secure, scalable database platforms within a hybrid work model. You will lead automation, governance and resilience initiatives, mentoring engineers while ensuring data services are reliable and cost-efficient.

You’ll apply expertise across SQL Server, Azure SQL and related technologies, shaping architecture and deployment pipelines to meet current and future business needs.