Database Administrator £28,500 - £30,500 FULL TIME 37.5 hours per week, with flexible working options available. Based in Andover, Hampshire with hybrid work options considered.
Want to work with a team that does something worthwhile? We are proud to work together to Beat Macular Disease – and this has been recognised by The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023 list.
Macular disease is the biggest cause of sight loss in the UK, with around 300 people diagnosed every day. The Macular Society is the only charity determined to beat the fear and isolation of macular disease with world class research, and the best advice and support.
To support people affected by macular disease now, the Macular Society provides a range of support, information and services. Our research programme is focused on finding new treatments and a cure to Beat Macular Disease forever.
We are looking for someone who shares in our value of knowing our stuff to join our committed and friendly data team as a Database Administrator. Working with our team, you will show you care by supporting your colleagues as we increase our activities in our drive to beat macular disease. Specifically you will assist with developing and enhancing new and existing programs and reports; you will help identify and develop solutions that meet the needs of the growing Society; and you will learn to support our various departments in their usage of our Customer Relationship Management system.
We are looking for someone who is comfortable making it happen in a dynamic environment, using their adaptable approach to work to multi-task with ease. Someone who has proven SQL programming and query writing experience, is motivated, and thrives working collaboratively with their team. In return, we provide a great working culture – we do something worthwhile and are proud to work together to Beat Macular Disease – as recognised by our inclusion in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023 list.
We offer flexible working options, 26 days annual leave, rising to 27 after one years’ service, the ability to buy or sell annual leave, supportive family policies, and 6% pension contribution. To find out more please visit: macularsociety.org/careers/benefits/
We are passionate about treating people fairly and as equals, doing so is instinctive to us. We know that to Beat Macular Disease for all we have work to do. That’s why we are keen to hear from people of all backgrounds who have the skills and experience we are looking for. We particularly encourage applications from people from under-represented groups, to help ensure what we do and how we do it is inclusive – for everyone.
Please view the full job specification at: macularsociety.org/vacancies
To hear what our teams say about working here please visit: macularsociety.org/careers/what-our-teams-say/
Please address any questions by email to: james.price@macularsociety.org
To apply, please email your CV with a covering letter to: recruitment@macularsociety.org
Closing date: 20 September 2023
Interviews: 28 & 29 September 2023
Aug 24, 2023
Full time
Database Administrator £28,500 - £30,500 FULL TIME 37.5 hours per week, with flexible working options available. Based in Andover, Hampshire with hybrid work options considered.
Want to work with a team that does something worthwhile? We are proud to work together to Beat Macular Disease – and this has been recognised by The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023 list.
Macular disease is the biggest cause of sight loss in the UK, with around 300 people diagnosed every day. The Macular Society is the only charity determined to beat the fear and isolation of macular disease with world class research, and the best advice and support.
To support people affected by macular disease now, the Macular Society provides a range of support, information and services. Our research programme is focused on finding new treatments and a cure to Beat Macular Disease forever.
We are looking for someone who shares in our value of knowing our stuff to join our committed and friendly data team as a Database Administrator. Working with our team, you will show you care by supporting your colleagues as we increase our activities in our drive to beat macular disease. Specifically you will assist with developing and enhancing new and existing programs and reports; you will help identify and develop solutions that meet the needs of the growing Society; and you will learn to support our various departments in their usage of our Customer Relationship Management system.
We are looking for someone who is comfortable making it happen in a dynamic environment, using their adaptable approach to work to multi-task with ease. Someone who has proven SQL programming and query writing experience, is motivated, and thrives working collaboratively with their team. In return, we provide a great working culture – we do something worthwhile and are proud to work together to Beat Macular Disease – as recognised by our inclusion in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023 list.
We offer flexible working options, 26 days annual leave, rising to 27 after one years’ service, the ability to buy or sell annual leave, supportive family policies, and 6% pension contribution. To find out more please visit: macularsociety.org/careers/benefits/
We are passionate about treating people fairly and as equals, doing so is instinctive to us. We know that to Beat Macular Disease for all we have work to do. That’s why we are keen to hear from people of all backgrounds who have the skills and experience we are looking for. We particularly encourage applications from people from under-represented groups, to help ensure what we do and how we do it is inclusive – for everyone.
Please view the full job specification at: macularsociety.org/vacancies
To hear what our teams say about working here please visit: macularsociety.org/careers/what-our-teams-say/
Please address any questions by email to: james.price@macularsociety.org
To apply, please email your CV with a covering letter to: recruitment@macularsociety.org
Closing date: 20 September 2023
Interviews: 28 & 29 September 2023
Our client is seeking an eager Data and Systems Administrator to further their career, to be based in Kensington, London. This will also include occasional visits to their Ashford, Surrey site. Main Duties and Responsibilities: • Act as the system administrator for their Management Information System (currently SchoolBase with scope to change)• Act as administrator for the schools' SAAS applications such as Firefly / MS365• Act as administrator for teaching and business software. Ensure the smooth and effective function of the systems and software across the business.• Ensure all student and staff records are updated in a timely manner.• Support staff in their use of MIS and other systems. Provide up to date training as required, ensuring software is used accurately and in a standardised manner by all.• Responsible for the annual roll-over and new intake of pupils and staff. Managing staff and pupil joiners and leavers throughout the year.• Produce and manage reports upon request from staff.• Ensure data for pupil-premium students is correctly recorded.• Collect and update FFT/MidYis (or equivalent) data in liaison with the Deputy Head academic.• Assist with the IT helpdesk ticket distribution amongst the IT team.• To liaise with 3rd party software vendors for the regular upgrade of our systems and software.• To check all database platforms are backed up and retrievable in case of DR.• The co-ordination and production of accurate, valid and timely UK statutory returns such as ISC and DfE Census.• Participate in projects to migrate data to a new MIS and improve business processes.• Train system users and provide advice and support to support staff and teachers.• Be the central point of contact for the administration, termination and renewal of teaching software and other administrative platforms.• Perform additional duties as assigned by the Head of IT. Desired Skills: • Experience of working with a complex database, such as a student records system.• Experience with reporting tools and data analytics including SQL • Experience using PowerBI for API's.• Contributes fully to an effective team environment; demonstrates willingness to work cooperatively with others to achieve shared goal. You will need an Enhanced DBS check to work within this school. Should you have any questions or wish to apply please do not hesitate to contact Clear IT Recruitment Limited. Please Note: Due to the number of applications we receive we may be unable to respond to every application directly. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume your application has been unsuccessful.
Mar 29, 2024
Full time
Our client is seeking an eager Data and Systems Administrator to further their career, to be based in Kensington, London. This will also include occasional visits to their Ashford, Surrey site. Main Duties and Responsibilities: • Act as the system administrator for their Management Information System (currently SchoolBase with scope to change)• Act as administrator for the schools' SAAS applications such as Firefly / MS365• Act as administrator for teaching and business software. Ensure the smooth and effective function of the systems and software across the business.• Ensure all student and staff records are updated in a timely manner.• Support staff in their use of MIS and other systems. Provide up to date training as required, ensuring software is used accurately and in a standardised manner by all.• Responsible for the annual roll-over and new intake of pupils and staff. Managing staff and pupil joiners and leavers throughout the year.• Produce and manage reports upon request from staff.• Ensure data for pupil-premium students is correctly recorded.• Collect and update FFT/MidYis (or equivalent) data in liaison with the Deputy Head academic.• Assist with the IT helpdesk ticket distribution amongst the IT team.• To liaise with 3rd party software vendors for the regular upgrade of our systems and software.• To check all database platforms are backed up and retrievable in case of DR.• The co-ordination and production of accurate, valid and timely UK statutory returns such as ISC and DfE Census.• Participate in projects to migrate data to a new MIS and improve business processes.• Train system users and provide advice and support to support staff and teachers.• Be the central point of contact for the administration, termination and renewal of teaching software and other administrative platforms.• Perform additional duties as assigned by the Head of IT. Desired Skills: • Experience of working with a complex database, such as a student records system.• Experience with reporting tools and data analytics including SQL • Experience using PowerBI for API's.• Contributes fully to an effective team environment; demonstrates willingness to work cooperatively with others to achieve shared goal. You will need an Enhanced DBS check to work within this school. Should you have any questions or wish to apply please do not hesitate to contact Clear IT Recruitment Limited. Please Note: Due to the number of applications we receive we may be unable to respond to every application directly. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume your application has been unsuccessful.
I am looking for an experienced Business Intelligence Developer to join one of our biggest clients on a 12 month temporary contract to support the development, implementation, and maintenance of systems in line with business requirements. The position will interact with technical and non-technical colleagues, who will range from peers to leadership level. This is initially a 12 month contract with a strong likelihood of extension. Produce reports and data extracts using SQL, SSRS and MS Excel Maintenance of all database systems Support and develop systems in line with business requirements Activities related data warehouse development and support Demonstrate commitment to root cause analysis to ensure prevention of re occurrence Demonstrate the ability to apply past experiences and processes to current assignments Education and experience: Bachelor's or Masters in Computer Science or any other Information Technology related discipline 2+ years experience Competence and working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 BI Stack/Data Tools (and higher), Source Code Management/Microsoft Team Foundation Server (desirable), Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Relational Data Analysis and reporting Working to Project plans and user aspirations Experience in Data Warehouse support and understanding of design Company Benefits: Hybrid working - Monday and Friday WFH Free onsite parking Flexible working hours Progression and development For more information regarding this position please contact Suliman To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
Mar 29, 2024
Full time
I am looking for an experienced Business Intelligence Developer to join one of our biggest clients on a 12 month temporary contract to support the development, implementation, and maintenance of systems in line with business requirements. The position will interact with technical and non-technical colleagues, who will range from peers to leadership level. This is initially a 12 month contract with a strong likelihood of extension. Produce reports and data extracts using SQL, SSRS and MS Excel Maintenance of all database systems Support and develop systems in line with business requirements Activities related data warehouse development and support Demonstrate commitment to root cause analysis to ensure prevention of re occurrence Demonstrate the ability to apply past experiences and processes to current assignments Education and experience: Bachelor's or Masters in Computer Science or any other Information Technology related discipline 2+ years experience Competence and working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 BI Stack/Data Tools (and higher), Source Code Management/Microsoft Team Foundation Server (desirable), Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Relational Data Analysis and reporting Working to Project plans and user aspirations Experience in Data Warehouse support and understanding of design Company Benefits: Hybrid working - Monday and Friday WFH Free onsite parking Flexible working hours Progression and development For more information regarding this position please contact Suliman To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
Third Line Shared Service Support Engineer - (Security Cleared) Bracknell Contract A national security clearance is required for this role but candidates not holding this level of clearance will be considered Leading Managed Services Provider in the Defence Sector require an Third Line Shared Service Support Engineer to join their successful Practice on an Contract basis. Proven experience as a 3rd line Infrastructure Engineer / Systems Administrator Build, monitoring and support of Windows Server (2019/2022) Experience in Linux Server administration (Redhat, Oracle, Ubuntu) VMware Suite Administration (VCenter/ESXI) Active Directory & Group Policy management, design, and troubleshooting PKI management (Windows / Entrust) Good understanding of networking technologies that support the infrastructure (DNS, DHCP, Routers, Switches). Storage systems technology experience (SAN/NAS) Scripting and automation experience (PowerShell/Ansible) Microsoft System Center suite management. Backup solution management (Veeam) Patching toolsets (WSUS/Redhat Satellite Server) Tenable SC / Nessus Zabbix Elasticsearch LiveNX Database management (Microsoft SQL Server/MySQL/Postgres) Thin Client Solutions (Scout/Elux) Windows ADFS Documentation creation Mentoring and supporting the development of junior members of the team If you are interested please apply via this ad in the first instance or send a CV with covering note to (url removed) Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Mar 28, 2024
Contractor
Third Line Shared Service Support Engineer - (Security Cleared) Bracknell Contract A national security clearance is required for this role but candidates not holding this level of clearance will be considered Leading Managed Services Provider in the Defence Sector require an Third Line Shared Service Support Engineer to join their successful Practice on an Contract basis. Proven experience as a 3rd line Infrastructure Engineer / Systems Administrator Build, monitoring and support of Windows Server (2019/2022) Experience in Linux Server administration (Redhat, Oracle, Ubuntu) VMware Suite Administration (VCenter/ESXI) Active Directory & Group Policy management, design, and troubleshooting PKI management (Windows / Entrust) Good understanding of networking technologies that support the infrastructure (DNS, DHCP, Routers, Switches). Storage systems technology experience (SAN/NAS) Scripting and automation experience (PowerShell/Ansible) Microsoft System Center suite management. Backup solution management (Veeam) Patching toolsets (WSUS/Redhat Satellite Server) Tenable SC / Nessus Zabbix Elasticsearch LiveNX Database management (Microsoft SQL Server/MySQL/Postgres) Thin Client Solutions (Scout/Elux) Windows ADFS Documentation creation Mentoring and supporting the development of junior members of the team If you are interested please apply via this ad in the first instance or send a CV with covering note to (url removed) Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Senior Salesforce Developer Senior Salesforce Developer required by a leading professional membership body in London. This organisation has a dynamic IT environment and are about to kick off a major Salesforce re-implementation programme. This is therefore a key role within the in-house Salesforce team where you will be the technical specialist, leading the ongoing development of the Salesforce platform, drive projects, improve processes, advise, and support the 3rd party implementation partner. You will even get the opportunity to mentor, coach and manage a Junior Developer and Salesforce Administrator. With a collaborative, friendly and stable team, this is an organisation that continually invests in its technology estate. You will take ownership, oversee and lead on Salesforce development and support, setting technical standards and guidelines for Salesforce, and coaching developers on reusability and best practices. You will collaborate with the team and end users in identifying possible enhancements and in identifying bugs and will work closely with Project Managers and Business Analysts to produce accurate delivery estimates and manage the transition from analysis through to design and delivery. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Salesforce Developer who is looking to make that next step in their career, be involved in a wide range of projects and take on responsibility for defining, designing and implementing Salesforce application and data architectures. To be considered you will be a passionate Salesforce Developer with a broad range of skills spanning hands on development, knowledge of data migration and integration. Skills required: Excellent hands-on development experience using Salesforce configuration and customisations using Apex, Visualforce, Triggers, Scheduled and Batch classes etc., Strong Salesforce customisation and configuration experience (with exposure to at least 1 or more of the following clouds: Sales, Service, Marketing, Communities and Knowledge) Good experience using Salesforce data tools (Data Loader, DemandTools, Eclipse (url removed) IDE) Proven integration experience with knowledge of REST, SOAP APIs, oAuth and Single Sign-On. Ability to write SQL Queries, stored procedures, DTSs, SSIS Knowledge of relational database concepts and database design Knowledge of the Product Development Lifecycle and DevOps Tools like GIT, Jenkins, JIRA etc A good understanding of Salesforce Deployment Process and tools like ANT, Change Sets and (url removed) IDE. Supporting users in the use of database driven applications You should hold Salesforce Certifications (ideally Salesforce Administrator and Platform Developer). In addition to your Salesforce skills, you should be a strong communicator with excellent relationship and team working skills. You will be flexible and adaptable in your approach and a keen problem solver with a hands-on and can-do attitude. This organisation can offer a lot of flexibility, and this is a hybrid role which will see you work in the fantastic Central London office twice a week, with 3 days remotely. An excellent salary up to 60,000 is on offer as well as an excellent package including 27 Days Holiday, Pension Contribution, Life Assurance, Flexitime option, Onsite Gym, Family Friendly Benefits, as well as other perks. If you are a Salesforce Developer looking for an amazing opportunity to progress your skills, then apply NOW. If you are interested please apply ASAP. The People Network is an employment agency and will respond to all applicants within three - five working days. If you do not hear within these timescales please feel free to get in touch.
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Senior Salesforce Developer Senior Salesforce Developer required by a leading professional membership body in London. This organisation has a dynamic IT environment and are about to kick off a major Salesforce re-implementation programme. This is therefore a key role within the in-house Salesforce team where you will be the technical specialist, leading the ongoing development of the Salesforce platform, drive projects, improve processes, advise, and support the 3rd party implementation partner. You will even get the opportunity to mentor, coach and manage a Junior Developer and Salesforce Administrator. With a collaborative, friendly and stable team, this is an organisation that continually invests in its technology estate. You will take ownership, oversee and lead on Salesforce development and support, setting technical standards and guidelines for Salesforce, and coaching developers on reusability and best practices. You will collaborate with the team and end users in identifying possible enhancements and in identifying bugs and will work closely with Project Managers and Business Analysts to produce accurate delivery estimates and manage the transition from analysis through to design and delivery. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Salesforce Developer who is looking to make that next step in their career, be involved in a wide range of projects and take on responsibility for defining, designing and implementing Salesforce application and data architectures. To be considered you will be a passionate Salesforce Developer with a broad range of skills spanning hands on development, knowledge of data migration and integration. Skills required: Excellent hands-on development experience using Salesforce configuration and customisations using Apex, Visualforce, Triggers, Scheduled and Batch classes etc., Strong Salesforce customisation and configuration experience (with exposure to at least 1 or more of the following clouds: Sales, Service, Marketing, Communities and Knowledge) Good experience using Salesforce data tools (Data Loader, DemandTools, Eclipse (url removed) IDE) Proven integration experience with knowledge of REST, SOAP APIs, oAuth and Single Sign-On. Ability to write SQL Queries, stored procedures, DTSs, SSIS Knowledge of relational database concepts and database design Knowledge of the Product Development Lifecycle and DevOps Tools like GIT, Jenkins, JIRA etc A good understanding of Salesforce Deployment Process and tools like ANT, Change Sets and (url removed) IDE. Supporting users in the use of database driven applications You should hold Salesforce Certifications (ideally Salesforce Administrator and Platform Developer). In addition to your Salesforce skills, you should be a strong communicator with excellent relationship and team working skills. You will be flexible and adaptable in your approach and a keen problem solver with a hands-on and can-do attitude. This organisation can offer a lot of flexibility, and this is a hybrid role which will see you work in the fantastic Central London office twice a week, with 3 days remotely. An excellent salary up to 60,000 is on offer as well as an excellent package including 27 Days Holiday, Pension Contribution, Life Assurance, Flexitime option, Onsite Gym, Family Friendly Benefits, as well as other perks. If you are a Salesforce Developer looking for an amazing opportunity to progress your skills, then apply NOW. If you are interested please apply ASAP. The People Network is an employment agency and will respond to all applicants within three - five working days. If you do not hear within these timescales please feel free to get in touch.
Global bank based in Canary Wharf. Role - C# / WPF / WCF / Winform Developer Duration - 6 months with likely extension Rate - 400 p/d (inside IR35) Location - Remote / Canary Wharf Tech Stack C# WPF Winforms SQL Oracle Tasks Tasks range from understanding business requirements, designing application structures, business data analysis, programming WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) applications in Visual C#.NET on both Oracle and SQL Server database, testing with users, implementation through Development, Quality Assurance (QA), Production and Disaster Recovery environments. Supporting users and writing operation documents including User Helps (manuals) will also be required. As well as application development, this role will also include all aspects of system constructions and support for existing programmes which are written as WinForms (C#.NET) applications. Also, applications written in other languages like MS VBA for Excel and Access, MS VB and MS Excel Macros will also be required. Additional Tasks Defining Database objects required in systems to connect with SQL and Oracle Database Administrators in both London and New York. Providing script for database inquiry languages, i.e., T-SQL (SQL Server) and PL/SQL (Oracle) to perform data analysis based on requirements from business parties. Setting up a system distribution method to Citrix and application servers for both Web and Window applications. Troubleshooting systems in an event of failure and implementing necessary solutions by checking Windows Operating System, Internet Information Server and any other relevant environments where the JRIE applications are running. In some case this role will act to liaise with other application support team staff. Following the existing team programming policy to keep a common development style to be shared in team members. Updating versions of MS .Net Framework and MS Visual .NET platform to include any necessary changes of existing systems running in Production. Liaising with the relevant support teams such as other Development sections, Technical Support, Network and Infrastructure and DBA where Business users experience system problems. Assessing the impact of data processing loads on SQL and Oracle database and, when appropriate, finding alternative approaches. Rolling out changes with a coordination of Release manager. It is important to maintain the change history of applications GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Mar 28, 2024
Contractor
Global bank based in Canary Wharf. Role - C# / WPF / WCF / Winform Developer Duration - 6 months with likely extension Rate - 400 p/d (inside IR35) Location - Remote / Canary Wharf Tech Stack C# WPF Winforms SQL Oracle Tasks Tasks range from understanding business requirements, designing application structures, business data analysis, programming WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) applications in Visual C#.NET on both Oracle and SQL Server database, testing with users, implementation through Development, Quality Assurance (QA), Production and Disaster Recovery environments. Supporting users and writing operation documents including User Helps (manuals) will also be required. As well as application development, this role will also include all aspects of system constructions and support for existing programmes which are written as WinForms (C#.NET) applications. Also, applications written in other languages like MS VBA for Excel and Access, MS VB and MS Excel Macros will also be required. Additional Tasks Defining Database objects required in systems to connect with SQL and Oracle Database Administrators in both London and New York. Providing script for database inquiry languages, i.e., T-SQL (SQL Server) and PL/SQL (Oracle) to perform data analysis based on requirements from business parties. Setting up a system distribution method to Citrix and application servers for both Web and Window applications. Troubleshooting systems in an event of failure and implementing necessary solutions by checking Windows Operating System, Internet Information Server and any other relevant environments where the JRIE applications are running. In some case this role will act to liaise with other application support team staff. Following the existing team programming policy to keep a common development style to be shared in team members. Updating versions of MS .Net Framework and MS Visual .NET platform to include any necessary changes of existing systems running in Production. Liaising with the relevant support teams such as other Development sections, Technical Support, Network and Infrastructure and DBA where Business users experience system problems. Assessing the impact of data processing loads on SQL and Oracle database and, when appropriate, finding alternative approaches. Rolling out changes with a coordination of Release manager. It is important to maintain the change history of applications GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Senior Database Administrator Are you a SQL Server DBA looking for a new challenge? Our client, a well known name in the City with an impressive record of growth, is seeking a DBA to join their team as they continue to grow and evolve. If you re seeking a role within the financial sector with a relatively young organisation that is looking to innovate and develop, this would be worth your consideration. On offer is a genuinely competitive salary and benefits package, as well as a terrific culture. The role would be a hybrid working role so you would need to be able to commute to the City. What would you do? Be a DBA! Provide database support and guidance to the business, as well as manage and develop the SQL Server database systems. What are we looking for? Demonstrable experience in SQL Server database administration. (SSRS, SSIS and SSAS; SSMS, Profiler, SQLCMD, Extended Events, Extensive knowledge of T-SQL and SQL Server DMVs) Performance tuning, index design and query optimization, Database encryption Knowledge of ITIL processes Some team leadership experience would be good, and a basic understanding of investment markets is an advantage If you re interested apply below - or give Justyna a call. The above is a very brief summary - a full job description is available - remember this is just an advertisement, as Seismic is acting as an employment agency with respect to this vacancy.
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Senior Database Administrator Are you a SQL Server DBA looking for a new challenge? Our client, a well known name in the City with an impressive record of growth, is seeking a DBA to join their team as they continue to grow and evolve. If you re seeking a role within the financial sector with a relatively young organisation that is looking to innovate and develop, this would be worth your consideration. On offer is a genuinely competitive salary and benefits package, as well as a terrific culture. The role would be a hybrid working role so you would need to be able to commute to the City. What would you do? Be a DBA! Provide database support and guidance to the business, as well as manage and develop the SQL Server database systems. What are we looking for? Demonstrable experience in SQL Server database administration. (SSRS, SSIS and SSAS; SSMS, Profiler, SQLCMD, Extended Events, Extensive knowledge of T-SQL and SQL Server DMVs) Performance tuning, index design and query optimization, Database encryption Knowledge of ITIL processes Some team leadership experience would be good, and a basic understanding of investment markets is an advantage If you re interested apply below - or give Justyna a call. The above is a very brief summary - a full job description is available - remember this is just an advertisement, as Seismic is acting as an employment agency with respect to this vacancy.
A mobile software company who are at the forefront of shaping data infrastructure for the future are looking for a Senior Database Administrator to join their Cloud Ops team. Do have the desire and know-how to learn new systems quickly with little supervision? Are you a dab hand at relaying technical problems to non-technical business stakeholders? Then get ready to take your career in tech to new heights in a remote first company that values collaboration and growth. Picture this: You, as a Senior Database Administrator , leading the charge in a Cloud Ops team. You'll be the leader behind the data infrastructure, ensuring it runs like a well-oiled machine. From fine-tuning performance to owning database design, your expertise will shape the future of the company's product. What's in Store for You? Get ready to dive into a world of cutting-edge tech, from MySQL and MongoDB to AWS RDS and beyond. With 7-9 years of industry experience under your belt, you'll be the driving force behind data platforms, keeping them humming with your proactive monitoring and strategic solutions. But it's not just about the tech - your communication skills and can-do attitude will set you apart as a true MVP. Essential skills and knowledge: 5+ years of Database Administration experience in a production environment. Proficiency in MySQL, MongoDB, and AWS RDS. Strong communication skills and a proactive problem-solving mindset. Why apply for this Senior Database Administrator role? Be part of a global company that values collaboration and growth. Enjoy the flexibility of remote work while making a big impact. Work alongside passionate, talented individuals who love what they do. Why You'll Love this Senior Database Administrator role: Competitive salary and benefits package. Opportunities for growth and professional development. Join a company that's at the forefront of innovation in cloud technology. Ready to make your mark in Cloud Ops? If you think you'll fit right in with a team that takes pride in their work and loves a good challenge, then apply to this Senior Database Administrator role now. Eligo Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Eligo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering diversity and creating an inclusive and equitable environment for employees and applicants. We actively celebrate and embrace differences, including but not limited to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, and disability. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences and all will be considered for employment without discrimination. At Eligo Recruitment diversity, equity and inclusion is integral to achieving our mission to ensure every workplace reflects the richness of human diversity.
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
A mobile software company who are at the forefront of shaping data infrastructure for the future are looking for a Senior Database Administrator to join their Cloud Ops team. Do have the desire and know-how to learn new systems quickly with little supervision? Are you a dab hand at relaying technical problems to non-technical business stakeholders? Then get ready to take your career in tech to new heights in a remote first company that values collaboration and growth. Picture this: You, as a Senior Database Administrator , leading the charge in a Cloud Ops team. You'll be the leader behind the data infrastructure, ensuring it runs like a well-oiled machine. From fine-tuning performance to owning database design, your expertise will shape the future of the company's product. What's in Store for You? Get ready to dive into a world of cutting-edge tech, from MySQL and MongoDB to AWS RDS and beyond. With 7-9 years of industry experience under your belt, you'll be the driving force behind data platforms, keeping them humming with your proactive monitoring and strategic solutions. But it's not just about the tech - your communication skills and can-do attitude will set you apart as a true MVP. Essential skills and knowledge: 5+ years of Database Administration experience in a production environment. Proficiency in MySQL, MongoDB, and AWS RDS. Strong communication skills and a proactive problem-solving mindset. Why apply for this Senior Database Administrator role? Be part of a global company that values collaboration and growth. Enjoy the flexibility of remote work while making a big impact. Work alongside passionate, talented individuals who love what they do. Why You'll Love this Senior Database Administrator role: Competitive salary and benefits package. Opportunities for growth and professional development. Join a company that's at the forefront of innovation in cloud technology. Ready to make your mark in Cloud Ops? If you think you'll fit right in with a team that takes pride in their work and loves a good challenge, then apply to this Senior Database Administrator role now. Eligo Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Eligo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering diversity and creating an inclusive and equitable environment for employees and applicants. We actively celebrate and embrace differences, including but not limited to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, and disability. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences and all will be considered for employment without discrimination. At Eligo Recruitment diversity, equity and inclusion is integral to achieving our mission to ensure every workplace reflects the richness of human diversity.
Database Administrator Agency Reference Number: J74050 Venn Group is currently working with an NHS Trust, based in London, who are recruiting for a SQL Database Administrator (DBA). Rate: £39.71 umbrella per hour Location: London- Hybrid Duration: 3months Job Responsibilities: Experience installing SQL server instances Experienced in the backup and restore of databases Data files movement (to different servers) Exposure to Windows Clusters and SQL availability groups (HA) Monitor databases user access and security Ability to monitor performance and manage parameters in order to provide fast responses to front-end users Monitor system storage requirements Install and test new versions of the database management system (DBMS) Maintain data standards, including adherence to the Data Protection Act Write database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata) Develop, manage and test back-up and recovery plans Ensure that storage and archiving procedures are functioning correctly Carry out capacity planning Work closely with the different teams across Informatics and the wider Organisation Knowledge of different recovery plans Install new applications and customise existing applications in order to make them fit for purpose Manage the security and disaster recovery aspects of a database Experience in implementing and maintain high availability clusters The ideal candidate will have: Previous experience working as a SQL DBA NHS/healthcare experience Previous exposure in the management and security implementation of Microsoft BI stack reporting tools like SSRS and Power BI Previous experience in patching and rebooting servers, including enabling and disabling the relevant services Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Database Administrator Agency Reference Number: J74050 Venn Group is currently working with an NHS Trust, based in London, who are recruiting for a SQL Database Administrator (DBA). Rate: £39.71 umbrella per hour Location: London- Hybrid Duration: 3months Job Responsibilities: Experience installing SQL server instances Experienced in the backup and restore of databases Data files movement (to different servers) Exposure to Windows Clusters and SQL availability groups (HA) Monitor databases user access and security Ability to monitor performance and manage parameters in order to provide fast responses to front-end users Monitor system storage requirements Install and test new versions of the database management system (DBMS) Maintain data standards, including adherence to the Data Protection Act Write database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata) Develop, manage and test back-up and recovery plans Ensure that storage and archiving procedures are functioning correctly Carry out capacity planning Work closely with the different teams across Informatics and the wider Organisation Knowledge of different recovery plans Install new applications and customise existing applications in order to make them fit for purpose Manage the security and disaster recovery aspects of a database Experience in implementing and maintain high availability clusters The ideal candidate will have: Previous experience working as a SQL DBA NHS/healthcare experience Previous exposure in the management and security implementation of Microsoft BI stack reporting tools like SSRS and Power BI Previous experience in patching and rebooting servers, including enabling and disabling the relevant services Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.
Azure Developer About Us: We are the tech company with people at heart. At Advania, we believe in empowering people to create sustainable value through the clever use of technology. As one of Microsoft's leading partners in the UK, specialising in Azure, Security, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365, we have a proven track record of success in delivering transformational IT services. Position Overview: An Azure Developer at Advania focuses on designing, implementing, and managing robust cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure's suite of services for our clients, while also promoting the principles of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) to optimise development processes Responsibilities: In this role you will be responsible for: Develop applications and services using Azure tools and technologies including storage, security, compute, and communications capabilities. Implement strategies for testing applications to ensure they function as expected. This includes unit testing as well as integration testing. Regularly update applications to incorporate new features or fix bugs. Designing secure applications by implementing appropriate security rules at each level of the application stack. Continually monitor application performance and make improvements where necessary to ensure optimal operation. Working in conjunction with other software developers, system operators, administrators, and business units to manage resources and achieve project goals. Qualifications & Experience: The ideal candidate for this role would have: Professional experience of developing and contributing to .Net applications. Good knowledge and experience in implementing CI/CD (Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery) within a trunk-based development environment. Proficiency in Azure DevOps for automating lint-checking, containerization, testing, and deployment of code to different environments. Expertise in Azure App Services and supporting Azure PaaS services Understanding of encryption best practices, including activating TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) for encrypting data at rest and using AES-256 or equivalent encryption for data in transit. Experience with SQL databases, specifically MSSQL, including optimizing database performance (desirable) Please note you also need to be eligible to undergo the security clearance (SC) process for this role. For this reason you will need to be a British national with 5 years residency in the UK. Click here for the list of benefits. This is a remote-first hybrid role. See here for details about our hybrid workstyle. Our Selection Process: We are committed to ensuring an equitable experience for all candidates, regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Please do let us know if you'll need any reasonable adjustments as part of the selection process by highlighting these on your application form.
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Azure Developer About Us: We are the tech company with people at heart. At Advania, we believe in empowering people to create sustainable value through the clever use of technology. As one of Microsoft's leading partners in the UK, specialising in Azure, Security, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365, we have a proven track record of success in delivering transformational IT services. Position Overview: An Azure Developer at Advania focuses on designing, implementing, and managing robust cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure's suite of services for our clients, while also promoting the principles of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) to optimise development processes Responsibilities: In this role you will be responsible for: Develop applications and services using Azure tools and technologies including storage, security, compute, and communications capabilities. Implement strategies for testing applications to ensure they function as expected. This includes unit testing as well as integration testing. Regularly update applications to incorporate new features or fix bugs. Designing secure applications by implementing appropriate security rules at each level of the application stack. Continually monitor application performance and make improvements where necessary to ensure optimal operation. Working in conjunction with other software developers, system operators, administrators, and business units to manage resources and achieve project goals. Qualifications & Experience: The ideal candidate for this role would have: Professional experience of developing and contributing to .Net applications. Good knowledge and experience in implementing CI/CD (Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery) within a trunk-based development environment. Proficiency in Azure DevOps for automating lint-checking, containerization, testing, and deployment of code to different environments. Expertise in Azure App Services and supporting Azure PaaS services Understanding of encryption best practices, including activating TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) for encrypting data at rest and using AES-256 or equivalent encryption for data in transit. Experience with SQL databases, specifically MSSQL, including optimizing database performance (desirable) Please note you also need to be eligible to undergo the security clearance (SC) process for this role. For this reason you will need to be a British national with 5 years residency in the UK. Click here for the list of benefits. This is a remote-first hybrid role. See here for details about our hybrid workstyle. Our Selection Process: We are committed to ensuring an equitable experience for all candidates, regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Please do let us know if you'll need any reasonable adjustments as part of the selection process by highlighting these on your application form.
Contract Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer Clearance: MUST have live DV clearance Location: Onsite in Cheltenham, London, Manchester - 5 days a week About the role: Our cross-domain services are used in high profile government organisations. The demand for these services continues to grow in both scope and scale. We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help satisfy that demand. As an SRE you will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance and cost effectiveness of these services. You will be working with multiple feature development teams and the BAU/Support team to define and evolve our cloud & on-prem infrastructure & delivery pipelines, improving system observability, demonstrating performance and capacity improvements and proactively identifying and mitigating reliability risks. Key Responsibilities of the Site Reliability Engineer: • Collaborate with Software Engineers to improve reliability and performance in their subsystems • Partner with System Administrators in automating toil and eliminating alerts • Evolve observability and monitoring capabilities to identify and solve problems before they impact the business • Support development environments to help us achieve our delivery and quality goals • Research and evaluate technologies, tools and services to influence buy-vs-build decisions • Develop expertise in diverse technical and business domains • Expand your knowledge of the technical stacks used Skills & Experience Required: • Experience using modern configuration management tools (such as Ansible, Chef or similar) • Experience working with Terraform • Experience working with docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm) • Experience both using and maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or similar) • Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana. • Experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution) • Good understanding of relational databases and SQL • Linux command line, administration and shell scripting • Working knowledge of network security protocols • Experience using, developing with and maintaining cloud hosting services (ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda) Desirable Skills: Industry experience writing well-tested code in one of our platform languages (Java, Go, Python or similar) Knowledge of cross domain principles & technologies Experience of working in a service management environment Practical applications of using observability patterns in previous systems Creating and monitoring system availability metrics and using those to drive work that reduces downtime
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Contract Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer Clearance: MUST have live DV clearance Location: Onsite in Cheltenham, London, Manchester - 5 days a week About the role: Our cross-domain services are used in high profile government organisations. The demand for these services continues to grow in both scope and scale. We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help satisfy that demand. As an SRE you will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance and cost effectiveness of these services. You will be working with multiple feature development teams and the BAU/Support team to define and evolve our cloud & on-prem infrastructure & delivery pipelines, improving system observability, demonstrating performance and capacity improvements and proactively identifying and mitigating reliability risks. Key Responsibilities of the Site Reliability Engineer: • Collaborate with Software Engineers to improve reliability and performance in their subsystems • Partner with System Administrators in automating toil and eliminating alerts • Evolve observability and monitoring capabilities to identify and solve problems before they impact the business • Support development environments to help us achieve our delivery and quality goals • Research and evaluate technologies, tools and services to influence buy-vs-build decisions • Develop expertise in diverse technical and business domains • Expand your knowledge of the technical stacks used Skills & Experience Required: • Experience using modern configuration management tools (such as Ansible, Chef or similar) • Experience working with Terraform • Experience working with docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm) • Experience both using and maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or similar) • Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana. • Experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution) • Good understanding of relational databases and SQL • Linux command line, administration and shell scripting • Working knowledge of network security protocols • Experience using, developing with and maintaining cloud hosting services (ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda) Desirable Skills: Industry experience writing well-tested code in one of our platform languages (Java, Go, Python or similar) Knowledge of cross domain principles & technologies Experience of working in a service management environment Practical applications of using observability patterns in previous systems Creating and monitoring system availability metrics and using those to drive work that reduces downtime
PostgreSQL Database Administrator Mostly remote role - Once in London every 5/6 weeks Immediate start Salary up to £70,000 PostgreSQL, SQL Server and AWS experience required. For a prestigious firm based in London I am recruiting an SQL database administrator! The successful candidate will work in the Data Services team alongside other departments to develop strong and accountable relationships with Staff and Partners in order to deliver excellent service to their clients. THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE MUST HAVE POSTGRESQL, SQL Server and AWS EXPERIENCE TO A HIGH LEVEL. Key responsibilities for this role will include analysing partner data to develop an understanding of performance and to highlight possible changes or opportunities to increase performance and partner growth, working alongside and collaborate with Service Desk and Delivery to ensure processes and communication are clear and aligned and identify bottlenecks and bugs and devise solutions to resolve. Required skills/experience required- Good technical knowledge of databases and query languages Be able to understand, communicate, interpret information with IT to manage, report, assist in the build of performance reporting Adept with organising and prioritising work commitments and hitting tight deadlines Experienced in identifying and analysing trends whilst providing solutions to problems Highly proficient with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel Strong written and oral communication skills Excellent interpersonal skills and experience of working in a team Good understanding of customer service To be willing to keep up to date with any changes in data protection laws and database technologies Technical skills- PostgreSQL to a high level Microsoft SQL Server knowledge to a high level T-SQL/SQL knowledge to a high level Distributed source control systems (Git, Mercurial etc.) Desirable Microsoft SSIS/ETL experience Desirable Jira Desirable Snowflake PostgreSQL Database Administrator - Please send your CV for immediate consideration
Mar 27, 2024
Full time
PostgreSQL Database Administrator Mostly remote role - Once in London every 5/6 weeks Immediate start Salary up to £70,000 PostgreSQL, SQL Server and AWS experience required. For a prestigious firm based in London I am recruiting an SQL database administrator! The successful candidate will work in the Data Services team alongside other departments to develop strong and accountable relationships with Staff and Partners in order to deliver excellent service to their clients. THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE MUST HAVE POSTGRESQL, SQL Server and AWS EXPERIENCE TO A HIGH LEVEL. Key responsibilities for this role will include analysing partner data to develop an understanding of performance and to highlight possible changes or opportunities to increase performance and partner growth, working alongside and collaborate with Service Desk and Delivery to ensure processes and communication are clear and aligned and identify bottlenecks and bugs and devise solutions to resolve. Required skills/experience required- Good technical knowledge of databases and query languages Be able to understand, communicate, interpret information with IT to manage, report, assist in the build of performance reporting Adept with organising and prioritising work commitments and hitting tight deadlines Experienced in identifying and analysing trends whilst providing solutions to problems Highly proficient with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel Strong written and oral communication skills Excellent interpersonal skills and experience of working in a team Good understanding of customer service To be willing to keep up to date with any changes in data protection laws and database technologies Technical skills- PostgreSQL to a high level Microsoft SQL Server knowledge to a high level T-SQL/SQL knowledge to a high level Distributed source control systems (Git, Mercurial etc.) Desirable Microsoft SSIS/ETL experience Desirable Jira Desirable Snowflake PostgreSQL Database Administrator - Please send your CV for immediate consideration
PharmaLex is looking for an experienced Senior Database Administrator - MySQL / Senior DBA to work within Cloud Engineering and Operations to support PharmaLex's products. This opportunity can be home based within the UK or hybrid from our offices in Colchester, Essex. About us: PharmaLex is now part of Cencora, a leading global healthcare company with a foundation in pharmaceutical distribution. Together, PharmaLex and Cencora offer end-to-end product commercialization, including global market access strategy and execution, to drive patients' healthier futures wherever they are in the world. Our experts use technology-elevated solutions to support clients through the entire product lifecycle. About the role: PharmaLex is looking for an experienced Senior Database Administrator/Senior DBA to work within Cloud Engineering and Operations to support PharmaLex's products. We need you to take ownership of our MySQL servers, take them to the next level via automation, tooling and best practices then shift left to ensure our applications can handle the future demands of our fast-growing area.If you are passionate about databases, good engineering practices and processes, automation, and customers we want to hear from you! What are we offering our Senior Database Administrator - MySQL? High autonomy. You are the engineer and craftsman we are here to enable you to make your masterpiece your way. Space to learn. 10% of your time is reserved for training days. Access to online training tools including A Cloud Guru. Career progression and mentorship. We want you to be the best version of yourself. Clear goals and development plan to get you where you want with space and tools to achieve those goals. You will be stretched daily which creates real rock star engineers. International mindset, operating in a diverse working environment, interacting with global employees and customers, and understanding and valuing cultural differences to become a global player in our industry. Health cash plan or private healthcare from day one. Life assurance. 25 days holiday plus BH (increasing to 27 after qualifying service). 8% employer pension contribution. Volunteer Day. An opportunity to work within an organisation with a positive work/life balance environment. Key responsibilities as our Senior Database Administrator - MySQL: Database Monitoring and Maintenance: Monitoring database health, space utilization, and system resource usage to identify and resolve issues promptly. Performing routine maintenance tasks such as database reorganization, index rebuilding, and statistics updates. Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution: Investigating and resolving database-related issues, including performance problems, data corruption, query optimisation, index recommendations connectivity problems, and application integration issues. Collaboration and Communication: Collaborating with development teams, SRE, and other stakeholders to ensure database requirements are met, and providing technical guidance and support when needed. Capacity Planning and Scalability: Assessing current database capacity and planning for future growth. Scaling the database infrastructure to handle increased data volumes and user loads as the organization expands. Supporting development teams by shifting database processes left What we're looking for in our Senior Database Administrator - MySQL: The successful Senior Database Administrator - MySQL will havea strong mix of technical and soft skills to drive technical brilliance and strong collaboration across multiple teams. Not all skills are required! Soft skills You love learning new skills and are always pushing yourself to learn more. You can deal with high-pressure situations, step back and get the full picture before jumping in. Complex polymorphic problem-solving is your bread and butter. You love the solution and want more! You grasp new concepts quickly and to a high standard. You thrive in a strong teamwork environment and put the team first in all of your actions. Technical skills Extensive MySQL 5.7 and 8.0 experience to cover the activities described in the job role. Experience using PT tool set. Configuration technologies such as Ansible to support configuration changes of our MySQL servers. Experience using Public Clouds such as Azure. A strong drive to engineer solutions using best practices. This is very important! Security first design philosophy. If you are passionate about reliability, good engineering practices and processes, automation, and customers we want to hear from you! To join our team as a Senior Database Administrator - MySQL , please click 'apply' now. Pharmalex is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to join our growing team. At Pharmalex we make sure that we comply equality, diversity and inclusion in all our offices and prohibit against any discrimination on basis of race, religion, colour, sex, age, marital status or disability status etc. No agencies please.
Mar 27, 2024
Full time
PharmaLex is looking for an experienced Senior Database Administrator - MySQL / Senior DBA to work within Cloud Engineering and Operations to support PharmaLex's products. This opportunity can be home based within the UK or hybrid from our offices in Colchester, Essex. About us: PharmaLex is now part of Cencora, a leading global healthcare company with a foundation in pharmaceutical distribution. Together, PharmaLex and Cencora offer end-to-end product commercialization, including global market access strategy and execution, to drive patients' healthier futures wherever they are in the world. Our experts use technology-elevated solutions to support clients through the entire product lifecycle. About the role: PharmaLex is looking for an experienced Senior Database Administrator/Senior DBA to work within Cloud Engineering and Operations to support PharmaLex's products. We need you to take ownership of our MySQL servers, take them to the next level via automation, tooling and best practices then shift left to ensure our applications can handle the future demands of our fast-growing area.If you are passionate about databases, good engineering practices and processes, automation, and customers we want to hear from you! What are we offering our Senior Database Administrator - MySQL? High autonomy. You are the engineer and craftsman we are here to enable you to make your masterpiece your way. Space to learn. 10% of your time is reserved for training days. Access to online training tools including A Cloud Guru. Career progression and mentorship. We want you to be the best version of yourself. Clear goals and development plan to get you where you want with space and tools to achieve those goals. You will be stretched daily which creates real rock star engineers. International mindset, operating in a diverse working environment, interacting with global employees and customers, and understanding and valuing cultural differences to become a global player in our industry. Health cash plan or private healthcare from day one. Life assurance. 25 days holiday plus BH (increasing to 27 after qualifying service). 8% employer pension contribution. Volunteer Day. An opportunity to work within an organisation with a positive work/life balance environment. Key responsibilities as our Senior Database Administrator - MySQL: Database Monitoring and Maintenance: Monitoring database health, space utilization, and system resource usage to identify and resolve issues promptly. Performing routine maintenance tasks such as database reorganization, index rebuilding, and statistics updates. Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution: Investigating and resolving database-related issues, including performance problems, data corruption, query optimisation, index recommendations connectivity problems, and application integration issues. Collaboration and Communication: Collaborating with development teams, SRE, and other stakeholders to ensure database requirements are met, and providing technical guidance and support when needed. Capacity Planning and Scalability: Assessing current database capacity and planning for future growth. Scaling the database infrastructure to handle increased data volumes and user loads as the organization expands. Supporting development teams by shifting database processes left What we're looking for in our Senior Database Administrator - MySQL: The successful Senior Database Administrator - MySQL will havea strong mix of technical and soft skills to drive technical brilliance and strong collaboration across multiple teams. Not all skills are required! Soft skills You love learning new skills and are always pushing yourself to learn more. You can deal with high-pressure situations, step back and get the full picture before jumping in. Complex polymorphic problem-solving is your bread and butter. You love the solution and want more! You grasp new concepts quickly and to a high standard. You thrive in a strong teamwork environment and put the team first in all of your actions. Technical skills Extensive MySQL 5.7 and 8.0 experience to cover the activities described in the job role. Experience using PT tool set. Configuration technologies such as Ansible to support configuration changes of our MySQL servers. Experience using Public Clouds such as Azure. A strong drive to engineer solutions using best practices. This is very important! Security first design philosophy. If you are passionate about reliability, good engineering practices and processes, automation, and customers we want to hear from you! To join our team as a Senior Database Administrator - MySQL , please click 'apply' now. Pharmalex is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to join our growing team. At Pharmalex we make sure that we comply equality, diversity and inclusion in all our offices and prohibit against any discrimination on basis of race, religion, colour, sex, age, marital status or disability status etc. No agencies please.
My client is a multi-business organisation, with a particular specialism in Telecoms, looking for a highly competent DevOps Systems Admin in Linux Redhat/ CentOS ! You will have a strong background in 24x7 production environment and proficient in Enterprise Linux administration (Ideally CentOS / Redhat / RHEL , but all OS's considered) Experienced with Open source management tools, i.e. Puppet , Nagios, Cacti, Git Good knowledge of Linux Services, i.e. Ng i nx, Samba, NFS, Postfix Good working knowledge of relational databases ( PostgreSQL , MSSQL) Strong working knowledge of TCP/IP, iptables and networking technologies Preferable Skills VMWare vSphere, KVM REST & Message Queues Spring, Hibernate and Maven Exposure to other programming languages such as P y thon, Perl and PHP Cloud technology experience with Kubernetes & Docker (on-premises, AWS, GCP) Experience in using NoSQL databases, Redis, CouchDB etc Knowledge of JavaScript plus either React.js or Vue.js Data Centre management, server racking, network patching Exposure to Mitel 5000, Asterisk, OpenSIPS DCS Recruitment and all associated companies are committed to creating a working environment where diversity is celebrated and everyone is treated fairly, regardless of gender, gender identity, disability, ethnic origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, age, or nationality
Mar 27, 2024
Full time
My client is a multi-business organisation, with a particular specialism in Telecoms, looking for a highly competent DevOps Systems Admin in Linux Redhat/ CentOS ! You will have a strong background in 24x7 production environment and proficient in Enterprise Linux administration (Ideally CentOS / Redhat / RHEL , but all OS's considered) Experienced with Open source management tools, i.e. Puppet , Nagios, Cacti, Git Good knowledge of Linux Services, i.e. Ng i nx, Samba, NFS, Postfix Good working knowledge of relational databases ( PostgreSQL , MSSQL) Strong working knowledge of TCP/IP, iptables and networking technologies Preferable Skills VMWare vSphere, KVM REST & Message Queues Spring, Hibernate and Maven Exposure to other programming languages such as P y thon, Perl and PHP Cloud technology experience with Kubernetes & Docker (on-premises, AWS, GCP) Experience in using NoSQL databases, Redis, CouchDB etc Knowledge of JavaScript plus either React.js or Vue.js Data Centre management, server racking, network patching Exposure to Mitel 5000, Asterisk, OpenSIPS DCS Recruitment and all associated companies are committed to creating a working environment where diversity is celebrated and everyone is treated fairly, regardless of gender, gender identity, disability, ethnic origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, age, or nationality
DEVOPS ENGINEER / CHELTENHAM (HYBRID) / UP TO £95,000 PER ANNUM A fantastic new opportunity for an experienced DevOps Engineer , to join a fast-growing business. In 2019, our founders were working as engineers solving complex cross domain problems in defence and security organisations. TwinStream was formed to consolidate their collective expertise and experience into one business, providing technical excellence and exceptional service to their clients. The business is headquartered in Cheltenham with teams working both on-site with clients and remotely from home. Our cross-domain services are used in high profile government organisations. The demand for these services continues to grow in both scope and scale. We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to help satisfy that demand. You will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, and cost effectiveness of these services. You will be working with multiple feature development teams and the BAU/Support team to define and evolve our cloud & on-prem infrastructure & delivery pipelines, improving system observability, demonstrating performance and capacity improvements and proactively identifying and mitigating reliability risks. This is a hybrid role, where you may be required to work onsite in Cheltenham. Applicants must be at least Security Check cleared or be eligible for, and willing to become, Security Check cleared to be considered for this role. What's on Offer? Highly competitive full-time salary of £65,000 to £95,000 depending on experience. Pension - 8% pension plan. Learning and Development - A £1,000 training budget to help with your development. 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays. Every quarter, we hold a meeting involving all team members from TwinStream - this allows us to meet up, chat about all things TwinStream, and enjoy team building and company updates. Christmas and summer parties to celebrate our successes. Opportunity to lease an electric vehicle via salary sacrifice Health and Well-being - Access to workplace Mental Health First Aider Life assurance Key Responsibilities of the DevOps Engineer: Collaborate with Software Engineers to improve reliability and performance in their subsystems. Partner with System Administrators in automating toil and eliminating alerts. Evolve observability and monitoring capabilities to identify and solve problems before they impact the business. Support development environments to help us achieve our delivery and quality goals. Research and evaluate technologies, tools, and services to influence buy-vs-build decisions. Develop expertise in diverse technical and business domains. Expand your knowledge of the technical stacks used. Skills & Experience Required: Experience using modern configuration management tools (such as Ansible, Chef or similar). Experience working with Terraform. Experience working with docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm). Experience both using and maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or similar). Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana. Experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution). Good understanding of relational databases and SQL. Linux command line, administration, and shell scripting. Working knowledge of network security protocols. Experience using, developing, and maintaining cloud hosting services (ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda). Industry experience of writing well-tested code in one of our platform languages (Java, Go, Python or similar). Knowledge of cross domain principles & technologies. Experience of working in a service management environment. Practical applications of using observability patterns in previous systems. Creating and monitoring system availability metrics and using those to drive work that reduces downtime. What's Next? If you have the drive and experience to be successful in this DevOps Engineer position, we would love to hear from you. APPLY NOW for immediate consideration.
Mar 27, 2024
Full time
DEVOPS ENGINEER / CHELTENHAM (HYBRID) / UP TO £95,000 PER ANNUM A fantastic new opportunity for an experienced DevOps Engineer , to join a fast-growing business. In 2019, our founders were working as engineers solving complex cross domain problems in defence and security organisations. TwinStream was formed to consolidate their collective expertise and experience into one business, providing technical excellence and exceptional service to their clients. The business is headquartered in Cheltenham with teams working both on-site with clients and remotely from home. Our cross-domain services are used in high profile government organisations. The demand for these services continues to grow in both scope and scale. We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to help satisfy that demand. You will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, and cost effectiveness of these services. You will be working with multiple feature development teams and the BAU/Support team to define and evolve our cloud & on-prem infrastructure & delivery pipelines, improving system observability, demonstrating performance and capacity improvements and proactively identifying and mitigating reliability risks. This is a hybrid role, where you may be required to work onsite in Cheltenham. Applicants must be at least Security Check cleared or be eligible for, and willing to become, Security Check cleared to be considered for this role. What's on Offer? Highly competitive full-time salary of £65,000 to £95,000 depending on experience. Pension - 8% pension plan. Learning and Development - A £1,000 training budget to help with your development. 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays. Every quarter, we hold a meeting involving all team members from TwinStream - this allows us to meet up, chat about all things TwinStream, and enjoy team building and company updates. Christmas and summer parties to celebrate our successes. Opportunity to lease an electric vehicle via salary sacrifice Health and Well-being - Access to workplace Mental Health First Aider Life assurance Key Responsibilities of the DevOps Engineer: Collaborate with Software Engineers to improve reliability and performance in their subsystems. Partner with System Administrators in automating toil and eliminating alerts. Evolve observability and monitoring capabilities to identify and solve problems before they impact the business. Support development environments to help us achieve our delivery and quality goals. Research and evaluate technologies, tools, and services to influence buy-vs-build decisions. Develop expertise in diverse technical and business domains. Expand your knowledge of the technical stacks used. Skills & Experience Required: Experience using modern configuration management tools (such as Ansible, Chef or similar). Experience working with Terraform. Experience working with docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm). Experience both using and maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or similar). Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana. Experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution). Good understanding of relational databases and SQL. Linux command line, administration, and shell scripting. Working knowledge of network security protocols. Experience using, developing, and maintaining cloud hosting services (ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda). Industry experience of writing well-tested code in one of our platform languages (Java, Go, Python or similar). Knowledge of cross domain principles & technologies. Experience of working in a service management environment. Practical applications of using observability patterns in previous systems. Creating and monitoring system availability metrics and using those to drive work that reduces downtime. What's Next? If you have the drive and experience to be successful in this DevOps Engineer position, we would love to hear from you. APPLY NOW for immediate consideration.
Database Technical Lead Lloyds Banking Group London- hybrid working two days per week in the office & rest from home. Salary & Benefits: £100,657 to £130,262 per annum (experience dependent), plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, flexible benefits package, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. Background: The Data Resilience team is a new chapter within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. We have the responsibility to facilitate the identification, end-to end data flow mapping, and assessment of IBS critical technical assets to establish the Data Resilience position and proactively mitigate Group exposure to data loss or corruption events. Disruptions are inevitable and regulators expect Financial Institutions to take the necessary steps to protect data and recover from severe but plausible data loss or corruption events, such as a cyber-attack, to meet IBS impact tolerance thresholds. Data Resilience purpose is to proactively protect the integrity, availability, and security of our data to mitigate the risk of disruption to the Group's Important Business Services. About the Role As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you will focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, managed, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group's Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. The role requires ambitious individuals with a proactive, can-do attitude and solution-oriented approach to deliver at pace. Key Responsibilities: Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience. Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks. Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications. Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience. Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior collaborators. What we're looking for; We'd welcome applicants from diverse cultural and technological backgrounds, however financial services exposure will be important for this position. We'll need to see evidence of the following in your CV; Experience as a Senior Lead Database Administrator, including exposure to Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable) Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5) Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild. Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation) Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Its great if you have: Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery. Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW) Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. About working for us. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more
Mar 27, 2024
Full time
Database Technical Lead Lloyds Banking Group London- hybrid working two days per week in the office & rest from home. Salary & Benefits: £100,657 to £130,262 per annum (experience dependent), plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, flexible benefits package, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. Background: The Data Resilience team is a new chapter within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. We have the responsibility to facilitate the identification, end-to end data flow mapping, and assessment of IBS critical technical assets to establish the Data Resilience position and proactively mitigate Group exposure to data loss or corruption events. Disruptions are inevitable and regulators expect Financial Institutions to take the necessary steps to protect data and recover from severe but plausible data loss or corruption events, such as a cyber-attack, to meet IBS impact tolerance thresholds. Data Resilience purpose is to proactively protect the integrity, availability, and security of our data to mitigate the risk of disruption to the Group's Important Business Services. About the Role As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you will focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, managed, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group's Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. The role requires ambitious individuals with a proactive, can-do attitude and solution-oriented approach to deliver at pace. Key Responsibilities: Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience. Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks. Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications. Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience. Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior collaborators. What we're looking for; We'd welcome applicants from diverse cultural and technological backgrounds, however financial services exposure will be important for this position. We'll need to see evidence of the following in your CV; Experience as a Senior Lead Database Administrator, including exposure to Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable) Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5) Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild. Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation) Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Its great if you have: Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery. Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW) Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. About working for us. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more
Up to £50k DOE Comprehensive benefit package Hybrid Our client, an established organisation who operate in the financial services sector are seeking a SQL Database Administrator to join their dynamic team based in Taunton. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience working across complex databases, SQL and cloud-based data solutions The role offers Hybrid Working, with access to the Taunton office 2-3 days a week. Working hours Monday - Friday 08:00 - 5:00, 37 hours per week, with occasional out of hours support. Main responsibilities include: Support in the administration, monitoring, and performance tuning of databases Data and Analytics solution Implement and maintain database security best practices Conduct regular backups, restore operations and disaster recovery Providing support for database related issues Skills & qualifications requirements: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or a related field Experience in administrating Microsoft SQL Server databases Strong understanding of database relational concepts and SQL Capable of deploying Azure solutions using Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines Familiarity with PowerShell Experience with the following software would be desirable - Databricks platform and Microsoft Fabric Your benefits include: Hybrid working Company Bonus scheme Staff Health Insurance, cash plan and remote GP Pension - company contribute up to 15% of your salary Induction programme, mentoring and training Cycle to work scheme Monthly recognition Buy and sell additional annual leave Team building, fun actives and events Free on-site parking, with electric charging points Friendly and supportive environment If you would like to find out more information about the role, please apply today. Recruitment Consultant: Conor Mellamphy Ref: 10323
Mar 27, 2024
Full time
Up to £50k DOE Comprehensive benefit package Hybrid Our client, an established organisation who operate in the financial services sector are seeking a SQL Database Administrator to join their dynamic team based in Taunton. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience working across complex databases, SQL and cloud-based data solutions The role offers Hybrid Working, with access to the Taunton office 2-3 days a week. Working hours Monday - Friday 08:00 - 5:00, 37 hours per week, with occasional out of hours support. Main responsibilities include: Support in the administration, monitoring, and performance tuning of databases Data and Analytics solution Implement and maintain database security best practices Conduct regular backups, restore operations and disaster recovery Providing support for database related issues Skills & qualifications requirements: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or a related field Experience in administrating Microsoft SQL Server databases Strong understanding of database relational concepts and SQL Capable of deploying Azure solutions using Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines Familiarity with PowerShell Experience with the following software would be desirable - Databricks platform and Microsoft Fabric Your benefits include: Hybrid working Company Bonus scheme Staff Health Insurance, cash plan and remote GP Pension - company contribute up to 15% of your salary Induction programme, mentoring and training Cycle to work scheme Monthly recognition Buy and sell additional annual leave Team building, fun actives and events Free on-site parking, with electric charging points Friendly and supportive environment If you would like to find out more information about the role, please apply today. Recruitment Consultant: Conor Mellamphy Ref: 10323
PharmaLex is looking for an experienced Senior Database Administrator - MySQL / Senior DBA to work within Cloud Engineering and Operations to support PharmaLex s products. This opportunity can be home based within the UK or hybrid from our offices in Colchester, Essex. About us: PharmaLex is now part of Cencora, a leading global healthcare company with a foundation in pharmaceutical distribution. Together, PharmaLex and Cencora offer end-to-end product commercialization, including global market access strategy and execution, to drive patients healthier futures wherever they are in the world. Our experts use technology-elevated solutions to support clients through the entire product lifecycle. About the role: PharmaLex is looking for an experienced Senior Database Administrator/Senior DBA to work within Cloud Engineering and Operations to support PharmaLex s products. We need you to take ownership of our MySQL servers, take them to the next level via automation, tooling and best practices then shift left to ensure our applications can handle the future demands of our fast-growing area. If you are passionate about databases, good engineering practices and processes, automation, and customers we want to hear from you! What are we offering our Senior Database Administrator - MySQL? High autonomy. You are the engineer and craftsman we are here to enable you to make your masterpiece your way. Space to learn. 10% of your time is reserved for training days. Access to online training tools including A Cloud Guru. Career progression and mentorship. We want you to be the best version of yourself. Clear goals and development plan to get you where you want with space and tools to achieve those goals. You will be stretched daily which creates real rock star engineers. International mindset, operating in a diverse working environment, interacting with global employees and customers, and understanding and valuing cultural differences to become a global player in our industry. Health cash plan or private healthcare from day one. Life assurance. 25 days holiday plus BH (increasing to 27 after qualifying service). 8% employer pension contribution. Volunteer Day. An opportunity to work within an organisation with a positive work/life balance environment. Key responsibilities as our Senior Database Administrator - MySQL: Database Monitoring and Maintenance: Monitoring database health, space utilization, and system resource usage to identify and resolve issues promptly. Performing routine maintenance tasks such as database reorganization, index rebuilding, and statistics updates. Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution: Investigating and resolving database-related issues, including performance problems, data corruption, query optimisation, index recommendations connectivity problems, and application integration issues. Collaboration and Communication: Collaborating with development teams, SRE, and other stakeholders to ensure database requirements are met, and providing technical guidance and support when needed. Capacity Planning and Scalability: Assessing current database capacity and planning for future growth. Scaling the database infrastructure to handle increased data volumes and user loads as the organization expands. Supporting development teams by shifting database processes left What we're looking for in our Senior Database Administrator - MySQL: The successful Senior Database Administrator - MySQL will have a strong mix of technical and soft skills to drive technical brilliance and strong collaboration across multiple teams. Not all skills are required! Soft skills You love learning new skills and are always pushing yourself to learn more. You can deal with high-pressure situations, step back and get the full picture before jumping in. Complex polymorphic problem-solving is your bread and butter. You love the solution and want more! You grasp new concepts quickly and to a high standard. You thrive in a strong teamwork environment and put the team first in all of your actions. Technical skills Extensive MySQL 5.7 and 8.0 experience to cover the activities described in the job role. Experience using PT tool set. Configuration technologies such as Ansible to support configuration changes of our MySQL servers. Experience using Public Clouds such as Azure. A strong drive to engineer solutions using best practices. This is very important! Security first design philosophy. If you are passionate about reliability, good engineering practices and processes, automation, and customers we want to hear from you! To join our team as a Senior Database Administrator - MySQL , please click apply now. Pharmalex is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to join our growing team. At Pharmalex we make sure that we comply equality, diversity and inclusion in all our offices and prohibit against any discrimination on basis of race, religion, colour, sex, age, marital status or disability status etc. No agencies please.
Mar 27, 2024
Full time
PharmaLex is looking for an experienced Senior Database Administrator - MySQL / Senior DBA to work within Cloud Engineering and Operations to support PharmaLex s products. This opportunity can be home based within the UK or hybrid from our offices in Colchester, Essex. About us: PharmaLex is now part of Cencora, a leading global healthcare company with a foundation in pharmaceutical distribution. Together, PharmaLex and Cencora offer end-to-end product commercialization, including global market access strategy and execution, to drive patients healthier futures wherever they are in the world. Our experts use technology-elevated solutions to support clients through the entire product lifecycle. About the role: PharmaLex is looking for an experienced Senior Database Administrator/Senior DBA to work within Cloud Engineering and Operations to support PharmaLex s products. We need you to take ownership of our MySQL servers, take them to the next level via automation, tooling and best practices then shift left to ensure our applications can handle the future demands of our fast-growing area. If you are passionate about databases, good engineering practices and processes, automation, and customers we want to hear from you! What are we offering our Senior Database Administrator - MySQL? High autonomy. You are the engineer and craftsman we are here to enable you to make your masterpiece your way. Space to learn. 10% of your time is reserved for training days. Access to online training tools including A Cloud Guru. Career progression and mentorship. We want you to be the best version of yourself. Clear goals and development plan to get you where you want with space and tools to achieve those goals. You will be stretched daily which creates real rock star engineers. International mindset, operating in a diverse working environment, interacting with global employees and customers, and understanding and valuing cultural differences to become a global player in our industry. Health cash plan or private healthcare from day one. Life assurance. 25 days holiday plus BH (increasing to 27 after qualifying service). 8% employer pension contribution. Volunteer Day. An opportunity to work within an organisation with a positive work/life balance environment. Key responsibilities as our Senior Database Administrator - MySQL: Database Monitoring and Maintenance: Monitoring database health, space utilization, and system resource usage to identify and resolve issues promptly. Performing routine maintenance tasks such as database reorganization, index rebuilding, and statistics updates. Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution: Investigating and resolving database-related issues, including performance problems, data corruption, query optimisation, index recommendations connectivity problems, and application integration issues. Collaboration and Communication: Collaborating with development teams, SRE, and other stakeholders to ensure database requirements are met, and providing technical guidance and support when needed. Capacity Planning and Scalability: Assessing current database capacity and planning for future growth. Scaling the database infrastructure to handle increased data volumes and user loads as the organization expands. Supporting development teams by shifting database processes left What we're looking for in our Senior Database Administrator - MySQL: The successful Senior Database Administrator - MySQL will have a strong mix of technical and soft skills to drive technical brilliance and strong collaboration across multiple teams. Not all skills are required! Soft skills You love learning new skills and are always pushing yourself to learn more. You can deal with high-pressure situations, step back and get the full picture before jumping in. Complex polymorphic problem-solving is your bread and butter. You love the solution and want more! You grasp new concepts quickly and to a high standard. You thrive in a strong teamwork environment and put the team first in all of your actions. Technical skills Extensive MySQL 5.7 and 8.0 experience to cover the activities described in the job role. Experience using PT tool set. Configuration technologies such as Ansible to support configuration changes of our MySQL servers. Experience using Public Clouds such as Azure. A strong drive to engineer solutions using best practices. This is very important! Security first design philosophy. If you are passionate about reliability, good engineering practices and processes, automation, and customers we want to hear from you! To join our team as a Senior Database Administrator - MySQL , please click apply now. Pharmalex is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to join our growing team. At Pharmalex we make sure that we comply equality, diversity and inclusion in all our offices and prohibit against any discrimination on basis of race, religion, colour, sex, age, marital status or disability status etc. No agencies please.
Contract Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer Clearance: MUST have live DV clearance Location: Onsite in Cheltenham, London, Manchester - 5 days a week About the role: Our cross-domain services are used in high profile government organisations. The demand for these services continues to grow in both scope and scale. We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help satisfy that demand. As an SRE you will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance and cost effectiveness of these services. You will be working with multiple feature development teams and the BAU/Support team to define and evolve our cloud & on-prem infrastructure & delivery pipelines, improving system observability, demonstrating performance and capacity improvements and proactively identifying and mitigating reliability risks. Key Responsibilities of the Site Reliability Engineer: • Collaborate with Software Engineers to improve reliability and performance in their subsystems • Partner with System Administrators in automating toil and eliminating alerts • Evolve observability and monitoring capabilities to identify and solve problems before they impact the business • Support development environments to help us achieve our delivery and quality goals • Research and evaluate technologies, tools and services to influence buy-vs-build decisions • Develop expertise in diverse technical and business domains • Expand your knowledge of the technical stacks used Skills & Experience Required: • Experience using modern configuration management tools (such as Ansible, Chef or similar) • Experience working with Terraform • Experience working with docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm) • Experience both using and maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or similar) • Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana. • Experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution) • Good understanding of relational databases and SQL • Linux command line, administration and shell scripting • Working knowledge of network security protocols • Experience using, developing with and maintaining cloud hosting services (ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda) Desirable Skills: Industry experience writing well-tested code in one of our platform languages (Java, Go, Python or similar) Knowledge of cross domain principles & technologies Experience of working in a service management environment Practical applications of using observability patterns in previous systems Creating and monitoring system availability metrics and using those to drive work that reduces downtime
Mar 26, 2024
Full time
Contract Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer Clearance: MUST have live DV clearance Location: Onsite in Cheltenham, London, Manchester - 5 days a week About the role: Our cross-domain services are used in high profile government organisations. The demand for these services continues to grow in both scope and scale. We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help satisfy that demand. As an SRE you will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance and cost effectiveness of these services. You will be working with multiple feature development teams and the BAU/Support team to define and evolve our cloud & on-prem infrastructure & delivery pipelines, improving system observability, demonstrating performance and capacity improvements and proactively identifying and mitigating reliability risks. Key Responsibilities of the Site Reliability Engineer: • Collaborate with Software Engineers to improve reliability and performance in their subsystems • Partner with System Administrators in automating toil and eliminating alerts • Evolve observability and monitoring capabilities to identify and solve problems before they impact the business • Support development environments to help us achieve our delivery and quality goals • Research and evaluate technologies, tools and services to influence buy-vs-build decisions • Develop expertise in diverse technical and business domains • Expand your knowledge of the technical stacks used Skills & Experience Required: • Experience using modern configuration management tools (such as Ansible, Chef or similar) • Experience working with Terraform • Experience working with docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm) • Experience both using and maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or similar) • Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana. • Experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution) • Good understanding of relational databases and SQL • Linux command line, administration and shell scripting • Working knowledge of network security protocols • Experience using, developing with and maintaining cloud hosting services (ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda) Desirable Skills: Industry experience writing well-tested code in one of our platform languages (Java, Go, Python or similar) Knowledge of cross domain principles & technologies Experience of working in a service management environment Practical applications of using observability patterns in previous systems Creating and monitoring system availability metrics and using those to drive work that reduces downtime
Contract Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer Clearance: MUST have live DV clearance Location: Onsite in Cheltenham, London, Manchester - 5 days a week About the role: Our cross-domain services are used in high profile government organisations. The demand for these services continues to grow in both scope and scale. We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help satisfy that demand. As an SRE you will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance and cost effectiveness of these services. You will be working with multiple feature development teams and the BAU/Support team to define and evolve our cloud & on-prem infrastructure & delivery pipelines, improving system observability, demonstrating performance and capacity improvements and proactively identifying and mitigating reliability risks. Key Responsibilities of the Site Reliability Engineer: • Collaborate with Software Engineers to improve reliability and performance in their subsystems • Partner with System Administrators in automating toil and eliminating alerts • Evolve observability and monitoring capabilities to identify and solve problems before they impact the business • Support development environments to help us achieve our delivery and quality goals • Research and evaluate technologies, tools and services to influence buy-vs-build decisions • Develop expertise in diverse technical and business domains • Expand your knowledge of the technical stacks used Skills & Experience Required: • Experience using modern configuration management tools (such as Ansible, Chef or similar) • Experience working with Terraform • Experience working with docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm) • Experience both using and maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or similar) • Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana. • Experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution) • Good understanding of relational databases and SQL • Linux command line, administration and shell scripting • Working knowledge of network security protocols • Experience using, developing with and maintaining cloud hosting services (ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda) Desirable Skills: Industry experience writing well-tested code in one of our platform languages (Java, Go, Python or similar) Knowledge of cross domain principles & technologies Experience of working in a service management environment Practical applications of using observability patterns in previous systems Creating and monitoring system availability metrics and using those to drive work that reduces downtime
Mar 26, 2024
Full time
Contract Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer Clearance: MUST have live DV clearance Location: Onsite in Cheltenham, London, Manchester - 5 days a week About the role: Our cross-domain services are used in high profile government organisations. The demand for these services continues to grow in both scope and scale. We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help satisfy that demand. As an SRE you will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance and cost effectiveness of these services. You will be working with multiple feature development teams and the BAU/Support team to define and evolve our cloud & on-prem infrastructure & delivery pipelines, improving system observability, demonstrating performance and capacity improvements and proactively identifying and mitigating reliability risks. Key Responsibilities of the Site Reliability Engineer: • Collaborate with Software Engineers to improve reliability and performance in their subsystems • Partner with System Administrators in automating toil and eliminating alerts • Evolve observability and monitoring capabilities to identify and solve problems before they impact the business • Support development environments to help us achieve our delivery and quality goals • Research and evaluate technologies, tools and services to influence buy-vs-build decisions • Develop expertise in diverse technical and business domains • Expand your knowledge of the technical stacks used Skills & Experience Required: • Experience using modern configuration management tools (such as Ansible, Chef or similar) • Experience working with Terraform • Experience working with docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm) • Experience both using and maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or similar) • Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana. • Experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution) • Good understanding of relational databases and SQL • Linux command line, administration and shell scripting • Working knowledge of network security protocols • Experience using, developing with and maintaining cloud hosting services (ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda) Desirable Skills: Industry experience writing well-tested code in one of our platform languages (Java, Go, Python or similar) Knowledge of cross domain principles & technologies Experience of working in a service management environment Practical applications of using observability patterns in previous systems Creating and monitoring system availability metrics and using those to drive work that reduces downtime