Senior Database Engineer MongoDB, Cassandra

Visa; England; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in the UK is seeking a Database Platform Engineer to support database systems like Cassandra, Mongo, and Redis. The role requires installing, configuring, and maintaining databases, alongside analyzing high severity issues and optimizing performance. Candidates should have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and good UNIX skills. This is a full-time hybrid position offering opportunities for career growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or other technology field or equivalent.
• Good UNIX platform skills and understanding of network storage.
• Mid-tier Production DBA experience on Cassandra, Mongo, and Redis.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, monitor, upgrade, and maintain databases.
• Analyze and resolve high severity calls.
• Plan proactive measures for reducing downtime.

Skills

UNIX platform skills

Troubleshooting database production problems

Effective communication skills

Experience with Mongo

Experience with Cassandra

Experience with Redis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Overview

The Database team is part of Infrastructures Distributed Systems Division and is responsible for delivering open system database infrastructures with operational excellence being the industry leader in preventive and predictive operations driven by continuous innovation through self-heal and automated ecosystems architecting engineering and building the reliable scalable secure available and cost-effective database infrastructure solutions for product development partners working closely with them to use database products to best effect meeting various workload requirements being transactional analytical non-relational or data warehouse.

The wider DBA team is the technology owner of multiple RDBMS and NoSQL technologies is responsible to strategize advance and engineer enterprise solution for automated build and patching and efficient administration that meet security availability performance fast delivery and reporting requirements and to support projects and products using these technologies.

Responsibilities

Support Database Platform Engineering in the development and deployment for Cassandra Mongo and Redis. This includes but is not limited to advanced to expert engineering and implementation of the following :

• Install configure monitor upgrade and maintain databases in production and non-production environments including DR and patching activity.
• Responsible for responding to and analysing high severity calls working to resolution and providing root cause analysis.
• Planning and implementing proactive measures for reducing the down time for production environment as well as capacity management activity and reporting.
• Database administration for off the shelf and internally developed applications ensuring continuous 24x7 operation and availability in support of mission critical business applications and participating in on-call rotation.
• Write and maintain OS level scripts for DB automation and application maintenance.
• Provide technical expertise and hands‑on support in consolidation and migration of databases to new hardware and platforms.
• Proactive and reactive performance analysis monitoring troubleshooting and resolution of escalated Level 2 and Level 3 issues.
• Work closely with Infrastructure engineering product development business operations and technical operations to ensure delivery of database services within the SLAs and performance targets.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Thinking about careers differently...

At Visa we are passionate to offer our employees compelling career growth opportunities. As such even if you do not have experience of this function there could be skills or experiences which would transfer well. For this role the key skills required are :

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or other technology field or equivalent professional experience.
• Good UNIX platform skills and a general understanding of network storage tiered application environments and security.
• Mid-tier Production DBA experience on Cassandra Mongo and Redis.
• Strong record of troubleshooting database production problems and connectivity issues.
• Good interpersonal skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills.
• Experience in the full suite of Mongo Cassandra and Redis will be highly advantageous.
• Previous experience in the financial industry preferred.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Remote Work

No

Employment Type

Full-time

Key Skills

Entertainment,Aircraft,Journalism,AC Maintenance,Agricultural,Application Programming

Experience

years

Vacancy

1