Senior Infrastructure Engineer – MS SQL Server DBA

Coventry Building Society

Job title:

Senior Infrastructure Engineer – MS SQL Server DBA

Company

Coventry Building Society

Job description

Coventry Building Society has an exciting new role for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer – MS SQL Server DBA within CIDO.The role holder will be a Subject Matter Expert (SME), and responsible for providing strategic expertise to ensure effective management of the technical and business services for your specialist area. Being accountable for the transition and ongoing support of the relevant solutions at CBS to meet business requirements and IT architectural strategy.The Senior Infrastructure Engineer – MS SQL Server DBA will be responsible for the creation, quality, and governance of technical and standards documentation to maintain a stable and consistent environment. Providing a high level of technical knowledge to complete the troubleshooting of and resolution to production incidents or problems to meet our operational IT needs and ensure business as usual services are maintained within agreed SLA’s.The role also includes the provision of assistance and influence to the Architecture, Development, and Support teams, to implement and support solutions into the CBS estate. You’ll look for improvement opportunities which will involve coaching, mentoring, planning, supervising, supporting, and training of your team members.BenefitsOur benefits include:

  • 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme
  • Annual discretionary bonus scheme
  • Personal pension with matched contributions
  • Life assurance (6 times annual salary)

Find out more about the fantastic benefits of joining Coventry Building Society .We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.About youYou’ll have knowledge of systems management procedures in a large commercial and mission-critical environment, be familiar with the ITIL based service management framework and change control, release procedures and tools.You will have a “can-do” and positive attitude, you will have a desire to developing and improving processes, and a willingness and aptitude to learn new systems and further your knowledge.You’ll be able to demonstrate capacity planning, performance tuning and proactive monitoring of solutions.You’ll stay up to date with emerging and relevant technologies and will often work with Architecture teams to define roadmaps and engineering strategies. With the ability to work under broad direction, exercise substantial personal responsibility, work in a fast paced and changing environment, whilst being thorough, with good attention to detail and delivering to agreed timescales. You’ll be able to articulate technical knowledge into easy-to-understand terms for all stakeholders and be flexible in your approach to working hours to meet your own objectives and assist colleagues in meeting their objectives.The successful applicant will also be required to be part of a callout rota with other DBAs on the Team after a suitable amount of training and familiarisation of the Society’s DB estate.Essential skills

  • Experience with MS SQL SERVER RDBMS 2019 and higher, including High availability (AOAG), or Oracle 19C RDBMS and higher, including High Availability (Dataguard), or AWS RDS for various databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, Aurora).
  • Proficiency in Jira.
  • Extensive technical background in Production Infrastructure support for critical 24×7 services.
  • Proficiency in Database technologies, including Oracle (on UNIX), Microsoft SQL Server (on Windows and AWS), and familiarity with AWS RDS.
  • Strong focus on troubleshooting, planning and mitigating risk.
  • Identify service improvements and efficiencies.
  • Managing Incidents, Requests, and Problems, with previous Service Now experience considered an advantage.

About usAs a mutual, we’ve always worked together to improve the lives of others. As one of the largest building societies in the UK, over 3,000 of us share that goal, in our branches and Head Office. Our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and total support for our wellbeing.We’re serious about race, age, faith, disability, sexual orientation, and equity for all. By being yourself, you’ll make us stronger.You can build so much more than a career. Come and make a difference in our Society, that’s been voted a ‘Great Place to Work’ by our team.Flexibility and why it mattersWe understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.LocationHybridCheck out our latest rolesNeed help?

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Coventry Building Society is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority (firm reference number 150892 www.fca.org.uk). Coventry Building Society. Principal Office: Coventry House, Harry Weston Road, Binley, Coventry, West Midlands CV3 2TQ.

Expected salary

£44140 – 66200 per year

Location

Coventry

Job date

Sat, 07 Sep 2024 02:36:45 GMT

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