Senior Engineer (Hosting-DBA)

About the role:

The Senior Engineer role sits within the Delivery & Operations pilar within DDaT. As a Senior Engineer, you will be working in 2nd and 3rd line support, resolving problems, documenting root causes, and improving service levels, maintaining current systems, upgrades, and changes.

You will be a subject matter expert and trusted partner working professionally and collaboratively with colleagues, business stakeholders, analysts, and project managers, to develop, configure, support, and maintain your field and help to develop IT infrastructure systems and services. 

You will help manage the transition of new elements into operational service, perform capacity planning and performance management, day-to-day operations, and delivery of new services and infrastructure systems and solutions, in-line with the agreed project portfolio, to ensure they are meeting the current and future requirements of the University.

Your role will focus on all thing's database, from installation and troubleshooting to optimising server availability and maintaining back-up procedures.

Additional areas include:

• Active Directory infrastructure
• Enterprise Backup and Storage
• Server infrastructure, provision and management
• Cloud Infrastructure
• This role is offered on a full time (36.5 hours per week) permanent basis. 
• There is a market supplement of up to £2,000 available at our discretion, based on skills and experience.

About you:

• Proven database skills - preferably including SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and MariaDB
• Experience managing production servers, large databases, and multiple instances
• Familiar with Windows Server, Solaris, Red Hat and Ubuntu
• Expertise in capacity planning, backup, recovery/DR, and database security
• Advanced skills in automating SQL tasks; familiarity with Oracle PL/SQL and UNIX scripting (a bonus)
• Comfortable with PowerShell scripting or other automation techniques

What we can offer you:

• A very generous employer contributory pension scheme
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• We are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities
• A number of support options available for new and existing staff to help with the cost of some immigration expenses which you may be eligible for: Relocation allowance, Visa Reimbursement, Interest-Free Loan.

Salary: Starting from £37,999, rising to £45,163

Contract Type: Full Time, Open Ended