Database/Data Engineer - #2141969

Salt Search

Date: 2 weeks ago

City: London

Salary: £230 / day

Contract type: Full time

Work schedule: Full day

Data/ Database Engineer - RDBMS & NoSQL

Hybrid - 3 days onsite | Financial Services | Contract / Permanent

We're looking for an experienced Senior Database Engineer to join a major financial services technology and data transformation programme.

This is not a traditional BAU DBA role. You'll work closely with application teams and Data Architects to design, engineer and deploy database solutions into production, with a strong focus on automation, standardisation and

modern engineering practices.

What You'll Be Doing

Engineer and deploy Oracle, PostgreSQL and NoSQL database solutions
Work with Cassandra, MongoDB and/or Couchbase
Build and configure database environments across development through to production
Automate database provisioning, configuration and deployments
Integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines
Support performance tuning, query optimisation and complex troubleshooting
Engineer for high availability, resilience, security and recovery
Support database migrations, upgrades and modernisation initiatives
Work closely with developers, architects and infrastructure teams

What We're Looking For

Strong hands-on Oracle and PostgreSQL experience
Experience with at least one of Cassandra, MongoDB or Couchbase
Strong database engineering, performance tuning and troubleshooting skills
Automation experience using Terraform, Ansible, Python and/or Shell
Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and Git
Experience supporting highly available, business-critical systems
Strong understanding of database security, resilience and operational risk
Financial services, banking, capital markets or another regulated environment is highly desirable

The Person

You'll be a strong DBA who has evolved into a modern Database Engineer - technically hands-on, automation-focused and keen to replace repetitive manual processes with reliable, reusable engineering solutions.

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