Database Administrator-SRE

Job Title: DBA SRE Hiring Location: UK Duration: 6-months Contract Inside IR35 Working Mode: Fully Remote Job Description: – As part of the Cloud Team the Database Administrator primary focus is the delivery of cloud related database services and products to internal customers. They are responsible for providing end -to-end database support for cloud services through monitoring, incident response, and incident resolution for the Public and Private Cloud Platform environment. They also support incidents affecting hosted database workloads by providing these services to the owning teams who are customers of the database Platforms, in a timely manner. They monitor the databases to ensure availability, reliability, security and performance, responding to incidents and escalating them to the appropriate teams as required to ensure SLA’s are met. They follow incident, change, release, and problem management processes. Participating and driving root cause analysis on incidents to ensure issues around and acted up on in a timely manner, using those processes to continually seeking to improve the stability of the environment for all customers. They are experts in observability, responsible for centralised database platform monitoring and alerting tooling, setting the direction and enabling greater observability for all. They seek to use automation to remove repetitive tasks, developing Run books and Playbooks for use across the organisation. They are the experts in Cloud operations in cloud environments, using that expertise to support development teams in taking on more database operations responsibilities and driving DevOps practices to enable the company to efficiently scale cloud workloads. Responsibilities Physical Database Support (IaaS) ? Database Systems Administration: Responsible for database backup and recovery (verification, checks), examine logs and alerts, maintain access rights and roles, database instance version control. ? Base Database Monitoring: Essential, manual / script technical items (e.g., service/process up -down, etc.). ? -based detection and notification of critical database ? Database Structural Maintenance: Responsible for database space and storage management, database object management, physical database layout and temporary space management. ? Patch Management: Identification, testing, packaging and application of the necessary security updates, support packs, and other updates associated with supported database. ? Engineering Support: Management and support of database environment provided by engineers with deep technical skills and problem-solving acumen given inclusion in and visibility to current and historical changes to the environment. Physical Database Support ( Paas) ? Advise on best practices for production operation of Database PaaS environments ? Implement database maintenance plans and ensure optimal production configuration is in place ? Database Systems Administration: Responsible for database backup and recovery, examine logs and alerts, maintain access rights and roles, security group management, provisioning new databases ? Base Database Monitoring: Service availability, Health Check, Error monitoring, setup of ? CloudWatch alerts ? Engineering Support: Management and support of database environment provided by engineers with deep technical skills and problem-solving acumen given inclusion in and visibility to current and historical changes to the environment ? INTERNAL USEgy for the Next Decade, Today ? Participate in on call rota