IT Database Engineer

IT Database Engineer London (Hybrid 3 days onsite) Contract | 6 Months

Seeking an experienced IT Database Engineer to join our client's growing infrastructure team.

This is an excellent opportunity to work in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment where you'll be responsible for supporting, administering and securing critical production databases.

You'll play a key role in ensuring high availability, performance and resilience across the database estate while contributing to ongoing infrastructure and database projects.

What you'll be doing

• Administering and supporting production database environments
• Managing database security, backups, recovery and performance tuning
• Supporting high availability and disaster recovery solutions
• Working closely with technical teams and business stakeholders to deliver robust database solutions
• Contributing to database upgrades, maintenance, monitoring and capacity planning
• Assisting with automation and continuous improvement initiatives

Must haves:

• 5+ years' experience as a Production Database Administrator or Database Engineer.
• Strong experience with at least two of the following: Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle
• Experience with database monitoring, backup & recovery, performance tuning and disaster recovery.
• Strong understanding of database security, permissions and access management.
• Experience writing SQL (T-SQL, PL/SQL or similar)
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments.

Nice to have:

• Administering ClickHouse and Snowflake.
• PowerShell, Shell scripting or Python.
• Ansible or other automation tools.
• Cloud database administration (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Experience within financial services, asset management or another highly regulated environment.