Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Database Specialist)

HM Revenue & Customs; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service Pension

Hybrid working

25 days leave increasing to 30

Job summary

HM Revenue & Customs is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Database Specialist) to design, deliver and support Oracle-based database solutions. You will ensure best practices, guide teams, and maintain high availability across cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will manage provisioning, security, backups and migrations with a focus on Oracle technology, Grid Infrastructure, RMAN and Data Guard, while also handling performance tuning and SQL optimisation in Linux and DevOps contexts.

Qualifications

• Experience in large, enterprise-class environments with Oracle databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure and maintain critical database platforms in cloud and on-premise environments.
• Provide database management, support and performance tuning across multiple lifecycle environments.

Skills

Oracle Database (19c+)

Grid Infrastructure

Recovery Manager

Data Guard

SQL optimisation

Linux scripting

Cloud IaaS/PaaS (AWS, Azure)

DevOps practices

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Database provisioning

Performance tuning

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git

AWS

Azure

Job description

Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Telford

About The Job

Job summary

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Database Specialist), you will work in an Agile, fast-paced environment helping to design, deliver and support database products and solutions. Already a skilled Practitioner and role model, you will ensure best practices are adhered to and guide teams on how to deliver and support quality database products.

In addition, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, configuration, maintenance of critical database platforms in the cloud and on-premise, to ensure the availability and consistent performance of our products and services within agreed service levels.

Job Description

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record as a Database Infrastructure Engineer or Database Administrator, and you will have experience of:

• Providing effective database management and support gained in very large, highly available, enterprise-class environments.
• Technical experience should include, but not limited to, database provisioning, security, backups and restores and on-premise to cloud migrations, with an emphasis on Oracle technology.

Person specification

• Proactively contribute to the Database Engineering Community of Practice by providing technical leadership and mentorship to less experienced team members.
• Manage databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems on-premise and Cloud IaaS and PaaS environments.
• Configure and maintain database servers, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure optimum levels of performance, availability, security, and automation.
• Support architects and developers to ensure design, development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations.
• Independently analyse, tackle, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.
• Assist developers with complex query tuning, schema refinement and cloud migration approaches.
• Expertise in Oracle Database (19c and above), including Grid Infrastructure, Recovery Manager, Data Guard
• Expertise in database management, performance tuning and SQL optimisation
• Expertise in provisioning databases on Linux platforms
• Practitioner level knowledge of Cloud infrastructure technologies such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, IaaS- and PaaS-based database solutions
• Practitioner level skills in Linux OS and scripting
• Working knowledge of DevOps practices, continuous delivery tooling (for example, Terraform, Ansible, Git) and database automation using the aforementioned tools

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together
• Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Database Migration

Alongside your salary of £45,544, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £13,194 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

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Hybrid working at HMRC

HMRC is an office-based organisation, and colleagues are expected to spend 60% of their working time in the office. Our offices provide opportunity for interaction, collaboration which aids learning and development and a sense of community. Where the role allows it, and where the home environment is suitable, colleagues can work from home for up to 2 days a week, averaged over a calendar month (or a proportionate amount of time for colleagues who work less than full time).

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a standard (or equivalent) criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

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People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality Requirements

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Contact point for applicants

Job Contact

• Name : Nick Bryson
• Telephone : [phone]

Recruitment team

• Email : [e-mail]