Database Administrator

Database Administrator

Posted 1 week ago by Click

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£500 Per day
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United Kingdom
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Summary: The Database Administrator role involves joining a global FinTech company on a 6-month contract with potential for extension. The position requires hands-on technical expertise in managing PostgreSQL and Oracle databases, with a focus on migration to AWS Aurora. Collaboration with developers and DevOps teams is essential to ensure data infrastructure meets business needs and compliance standards.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage, configure, and optimize PostgreSQL databases on Amazon Aurora and Oracle databases on on-premise Exadatas and AWS RDS.
  • Support the migration of high-performance databases from on-premise Exadatas to AWS Aurora Postgres.
  • Support workloads on other database engines in AWS, including MySQL, MariaDB, and SQL Server.
  • Implement and maintain strong security standards for compliance with PCI DSS and other regulations.
  • Design and implement database schemas, partitioning strategies, and indexing solutions.
  • Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability of database systems.
  • Configure monitoring and management processes to troubleshoot and resolve database issues in real-time.

Key Skills:

  • Hands-on experience as a PostgreSQL and Oracle DBA in production environments.
  • Significant experience migrating database workloads to Postgres from Oracle.
  • Deep understanding of PostgreSQL architecture, including replication, clustering, and indexing strategies.
  • Proven experience with query optimization and database performance tuning.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, and IAM.
  • Solid understanding of database security principles and compliance frameworks.
  • Experience implementing robust backup and recovery strategies.
  • Proficiency with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform or CloudFormation (desirable).
  • Familiarity with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch or Datadog (desirable).
  • Experience with database replication tooling such as AWS DMS and Goldengate (desirable).
  • Experience collaborating with DevOps teams for CI/CD integration (desirable).

Salary (Rate): 500

City: undetermined

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Finance

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