Database Administrator, Associate

2 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom BlackRock Full time

Description

About this role

The Database Hosting Team is an integral part of Platform Hosting Services which sits under the broader Aladdin Engineering. Hosting Services is responsible for operating and engineering the reliability, stability and performance of the firm's financial systems including Aladdin and ensuring its availability to our business partners and customers.

We are a globally distributed team spanning multiple regions and providing engineering & operational support for online transaction processing, data warehousing, data replication and distributed data processing platforms.

Your role and impact:
Data is the backbone of any world-class financial institution. The Database Operations Team is tasked with ensuring the resiliency and integrity of that data, whilst providing instantaneous access to a large global user base at BlackRock and across many Institutional Clients. As preeminent specialists on database technology, our team is involved in every facet of system design, implementation, tuning and monitoring, using a wide variety of industry-leading database technologies.

We also develop code to provide analysis and insight and to automate & scale our solutions.

We are passionate about performance and innovation. From the top of the firm down, we embrace the diversity of values, identities and ideas brought forth by our employees and offer phenomenal flexibility to enhance work life balance.

Your responsibilities:
Operational support of a wide variety of database technology
- Engineering, Administration and Operations of OLTP, OLAP, Data Warehousing database platforms and Distributed No-SQL platforms.
- Automation and Development of database operational, monitoring and maintenance toolsets to achieve the desired Scale and Efficiency
- Database Configuration Management, Capacity and Scale Management, Schema Releases/Consistency, Security, Disaster Recovery and Audit Management
- Management and ownership of Operational Incidents including root-cause analysis of critical issues, resolution and mitigation.

Assess issues for severity, troubleshoot proactively and notify key stakeholders Focus on service impact and timely resolution of critical investment system issues Escalate outages until services are restored working in collaboration with Client Technical Services and other tech teams Coordinate with external vendor technology support when required. Once issues are resolved in the short term, focus on the root cause and long-term remediation.

Project-based participation

Participate in major upgrades and migration/consolidation exercises Creatively explore and implement new product features Actively contribute to the Performance Tuning and Engineering activities.

Contribute to our software toolset

Contribute to the monitoring and maintenance utilities in Perl, Python and Java Contribute to data captures to enable more in-depth analysis of the system.

You have:

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field preferred
- 3-5 years of experience in Database administration, preferably in a similar role
- Keen enthusiasm for acquiring new technical skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with senior management from both IT and business areas.
- Willingness to work during weekends on-site on DBA activities and designated shift hours.
- Experience with any database platforms like SAP Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Apache Cassandra, Cosmos DB, Oracle, PostgreSQL and data warehouse platforms like Snowflake, Greenplum.
- Experience with any data replication offerings like: Sybase Rep, MSSQL HA, HVR(FiveTran)
- Exposure to Public Cloud Platform offerings like Microsoft Azure, Amazon (AWS) and Google (GCP)
- Exposure to programming languages like Python, Perl, Java, Go; automation tools like Ansible/AWX; source control systems like GIT and Azure DevOps
- Experience with Operating Systems like Linux and Windows
- Demonstrating flexibility and willingness to different technologies and writing excellent code.
- Exposure to Project Management
- A passion for interactive troubleshooting and operational support and keen attention to detail, critical thinking and the urge to drive innovation.
- Boundless creativity and a desire to constantly learn new technologies.
- A belief in data-driven analysis and problem solving and knowledge and drive to scale technology to the needs of tomorrow.

OS: Familiarity with Linux/Windows
- Well-versed with all shell commands like grep, find sed, awk, ls, cp, netstat, etc.
- Well versed with commands to check CPU usage, memory usage and disk usage on a Unix/Linux system using OS native commands

If any of this excites you, we want to talk to you about your new role in our team

Other personal characteristics:

- Integrity and the highest ethical standards
- Quickly adjusts sophisticated data and information and displays a developed learning agility.
- Self-starter with the personal aim to achieve superior performance.
- Natural curiosity and desire

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