Database Infrastructure Engineer FTC

Database Infrastructure Engineer 12 Month FTC

Provide technical ownership of the NFUM Database Estate. Maintain the stability of the Database Estate. Hybrid role with 80% homeworking and 20% in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Are you an experienced Infrastructure / Database professional with a background in Oracle / SQL, PostgreSQL? An opportunity has become available in the team as an Infrastructure Engineer (12 Month Fixed Term Contract) within the IT Infrastructure Products department. The Technical Service Ownership team is dedicated to maintaining the stability of our IT services and plays a key role in governing, delivering and maintaining secure and robust solutions in our estate.

Reporting to the IT Technical Manager, the Technical Services Analyst will be responsible for providing technical advisory support for projects and assisting with the resolution of database-related P1, P2 and P3 incidents. The role includes reviewing and approving change requests across the NFUM database estate, assessing potential impacts, and distributing detailed reviews to relevant resources and stakeholders. The postholder will also be accountable for assessing database performance and making recommendations for improvement, defining database guardrails and build standards, and ensuring that all third-party providers adhere to these standards.

In addition, the role involves assessing opportunities for consolidation and cost savings across the database environment. Additionally, you’ll act as a representative at the Change Advisory Board (CAB), which is responsible for evaluating, prioritizing, approving, and rejecting changes to the NFUM Network infrastructure. Collaboration with external IT partners and vendors to drive service improvements is also a key aspect of the role.

You’ll be an SME in SQL and have knowledge of Oracle and PostgreSQL, you’ll have demonstrable experience in supporting, deploying and improving databases in a regulated environment. You will have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills and be able to effectively prioritise your workload. As you’ll be assisting in the resolution of major IT incidents, problem-solving skills are essential within a customer-focused IT environment.

You’ll take ownership of issues and tasks and see through to successful completion, working with 3rd party vendors as required.

• Working and demonstrable knowledge and experience of Microsoft SQL (essential)
• Working and demonstrable knowledge and experience of Oracle and PostgreSQL (Preferable)
• In depth experience in Database migrations and consolidation (essential)
• Good working experience of Database observability and troubleshooting issues (essential)
• Exposure to cloud technologies (Azure SQL PaaS) (essential)

Knowledge of governance or architectural practices and working within in a regulated industry would be advantageous.

Internally this role is known as Technical Service Analyst.

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When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary £44,782 - £60,000
• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you…