Morning,
Could the below advert please be posted:
Cromwell, based in Leicester, United Kingdom seeks an experienced DBA to join our established in-house DBA team to help support our UK and Global business operations.
The primary objective is to oversee and maintain all aspects of the company's database estate - the security, design, deployment, optimisation, and ongoing monitoring, maintenance & support.
This encompasses our on-prem UK & Global business operations and a steady migration into cloud hosted solutions.
The DBA role will further provide best practise advice and hands-on support to other IT and Analytic data sections that utilise business data.
Key Responsibilities:
* Become an active DBA team member to jointly support database operations day to day.
* Working predominantly with PostgreSQL v9+, to a lesser extent with Oracle 12c, MSSQL & MySQL
* Engage in DBA related projects to design, configure, and deploy new solutions.
* Undertake regular database patching & upgrades to minor or major versions as required.
* Work with InfoSec to ensure databases and data management is consistent with current security, compliance, policies, and legislation.
* Work with other core IT and Data teams to ensure they can function as per their needs.
* Work with App Support to deploy new ERP and related SQL updates.
* Work with Manhattan WMS Support to deploy SQL updates.
* Ensure databases are monitored and remain available and optimal per day.
* Ensure DR, HA & Standby databases are monitored and remain synchronous.
* Provide Dev, QA & Test environment databases or data refreshes as per requested.
* Troubleshoot database issues, resolving withing expected RTO.
* Use diagnostics and statistics to baseline & improve existing queries, functions and enhance runtime performance.
* Database maintenance - backup & recovery, maintaining replication, pglogical and hot standby clusters.
* Database optimisation - indexing, analysing, bloat management, and vacuuming.
* Database monitoring - actively monitor and react. Add new service checks.
* Ticketing - organise, prioritise and service DBA related tickets within SLA.
* Work with Digital to ensure AWS cloud-based databases are active, are backed up and remain highly available - Mostly MongoDB, RDS & Aurora Postgres.
* Work with Analytics, Data warehousing and the warehouse teams to ensure their own systems are available & optimal per day.
* Document Databases in terms of their use and build details, their configuration, and parameters. Maintain current DR documentation.
* Provide support in and out of working hours as part of a formal support rota.
* Explore and recommend new features, upgrades or technology that may improve or benefit existing operations.
Key Skills & Experience:
* Previous commercial experience as a DBA in a multi-tech database environment.
* Proven track record in managing large deployments, DR and HA database environments.
* Must have good understanding & hands-on experience of Linux OS (Redhat & Ubuntu) and Windows Server (2012+).
* Must have Linux Shell scripting - ability to understand & write scripts in support of DBA related tasks.
* Knowledge of Database security principles - excellent awareness of AAA Security model, its application & use.
* Broad experience of performance tuning of host hardware & databases.
* Broad knowledge of HA, backup & recovery, and replication methodologies.
* Ability to understand, write, diagnose, and optimise all qualities of SQL code.
* ANSI SQL knowledge.
* Strong continuous improvement & problem-solving skills.
* Good verbal and written communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
* Required - Extensive experience of Postgres v9+ (Design, implementation, and support in a HA environment):
o Working with Postgres to design, architect and create new solutions.
o Working with Postgres in support of existing in-house & 3rd party applications.
o Working with Postgres as an ETL / intermediate in support of Salesforce API feeds, Elastic, and other upstream systems.
o Extensive experience in using Postgres Features & Extensions, such as pgagent, parallel processing, foreign tables and materialized views.
o Excellent experience in configuring, deploying, and maintaining pglogical data replication.
o Postgres specific backup, recovery, and data replication techniques.
* Desired - Experience of Oracle 12c (Design, implementation, and support in a HA environment):
o Oracle OEM, DataGuard & Datapump.
* Desired - Experience of AWS databases (RDS & Aurora Postgres, MongoDB)
* Desired - Experience of MSSQL & MySQL.
* Desired - Prior experience using ETL Tools such as Talend, WebMethods or Mulesoft.
* Desired - Awareness of Data warehousing, Qlik reporting and data mining principles and use.
Working for Cromwell:
Cromwell is a long established and fast growing global company with over 2000 staff and operations across 4 Continents.
We offer the option to work from home or from our Leicester HQ. Remote workers are required to be within a commutable distance of Leicester UK.
Visit us here:
https://www.cromwell.co.uk
https://www.grainger.com
Interested in joining us:
Please visit our Careers Portal (https://ea1.earcu.com/cromwellgroup/intranet/roles/digital-and-it/)
Natalie Spence
HR Business Partner
spencen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
T: 07920 257327
cromwell.co.uk
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