Senior Production Database Engineer (Always-On & Security)

Levy Global

Greater London

On-site

GBP 65,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Levy Global is seeking an experienced IT Database Engineer to join our growing infrastructure team. You will support, administer and secure production databases, ensuring high availability, performance and resilience across the database estate while contributing to ongoing infrastructure projects.

The role requires strong SQL/PLSQL skills, UNIX/Linux familiarity and experience with monitoring, disaster recovery and security management.

Qualifications

5 years + experience in production database administration.
At least 2 of SQL-Server, PostgreSQL and Oracle are essential.
Experience with production DBs like ClickHouse or Snowflake is a plus.
Understand DB monitoring, disaster recovery and performance tuning.
Familiarity with UNIX/Linux and database programming languages (SQL/T-SQL/PL-SQL).
Experience managing security and permissions; knowledge of best practices.
Attention to detail, testing and documentation; proactive, team-oriented.
Scripting in PowerShell or Shell, Python, or Ansible is a plus.
Cloud DB administration experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

Support, administer and secure production databases.
Ensure high availability, performance and resilience across the database estate.
Contribute to infrastructure and database projects.