Senior Infrastructure Engineer; Database Specialist

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Database Specialist), you will work in an Agile fast-paced environment helping to deliver and maintain database products and solutions. Already a skilled Practitioner and role model, you will ensure best practices are adhered to and guide teams on how to deliver and support quality database products.

In addition, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, configuration, maintenance of critical database platforms in the cloud and on-premise, to ensure the availability and consistent performance of our products and services within agreed service levels.

The Ideal Candidate Will Have a Proven Track Record As a Database Infrastructure Engineer Or Database Administrator, And You Will Have Experience Of

• Providing effective database management and support gained in very large, highly available, enterprise-class environments.
• Technical experience should include, but not limited to, database provisioning, security, backups and restores and on-premises to cloud migrations, with an emphasis on Oracle technology.

• Proactively contribute to the Database Engineering Community of Practice by providing technical leadership and mentorship to less experienced team members.
• Manage databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems on-premise and Cloud IaaS and PaaS environments.
• Configure and maintain database servers, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure optimum levels of performance, availability, security, and automation.
• Support architects and developers to ensure design, development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations.
• Independently analyse, tackle, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.
• Assist developers with complex query tuning, schema refinement and cloud migration approaches.
• Expertise in Oracle Database (19c and above), including Grid Infrastructure, Recovery Manager, Data Guard
• Expertise in database management, performance tuning and SQL optimisation.
• Expertise in provisioning databases on Linux platforms.
• Practitioner level knowledge of Cloud infrastructure technologies such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, IaaS- and PaaS-based database solutions .
• Practitioner level skills in Linux OS and scripting.
• Working knowledge of Dev Ops practices, continuous delivery tooling (for example, Terraform, Ansible, Git) and database automation using the aforementioned tools.
• Must hold, or be eligible to obtain Security Clearance (SC).

Alongside your salary of £45,544, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £13,194 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

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As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:

• A name-blind CV including your job history and previous experiences, for up to your last 3 most relevant roles.
• A 750-word Personal Statement. Your Personal Statement should detail how you meet the Responsibilities and Essential Criteria requested under Person Specification, providing evidence of your suitability and what experience you bring to the role.
• Please complete a separate statement (Max 250 words) for the Desirable Criteria where applicable. This is not essential for the role but may be considered by the vacancy-holder where candidates have the same scores at sift or interview.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.