Database Sre Lead

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom eFinancialCareers Full time

Who we're looking for
We are looking for a seasoned and highly technical Database SRE Lead to be part of the Infrastructure SRE Global Team and be part of the multi-year cloud transformation program that we have embarked upon. We require someone who has in-depth experience of engineeringand supporting database services on premise as well as public cloud, who has worked with broader technology teams on successful, medium-large scale, cloud migrations or complex infrastructure programmes. We are looking for a passionate database and cloud advocatewho has an excellent understanding of database technologies, development and cloud best practices, industry trends, modern technologies and new ways of working.
About Schroders
We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future. We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we've been aroundfor over 200 years but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.
The base
We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We're close to our clients, in the heart of the UK's financial centre. We offer flexible hybrid working and have facilities that include an onsite gym (a good one at that), doctors, dentist, restaurant,coffee shop and garden balconies.
The team
You will be part of the Enterprise Cloud team that is comprised of seven functions. The Cloud Centre of Excellence (CoE) covering Azure Platform SRE, AWS Platform SRE, Cloud Enablement and Cloud Architecture. The Cloud Business Office (CBO) that has remit forcloud technical project management for each of the seven Cloud workstreams. The Global Networks, Communications and Estates IT team manage our global network and voice environment as well as all datacentres globally. The Automation & Tooling team have oversightof automation, monitoring and logging products and services. The Infrastructure Project Management team provide project management functions. The Infrastructure SRE Team is responsible for the global Windows, Unix, Linux, Virtualisation, Database, Container/Kubernetesand Storage/Backup environment for all on premise locations, as well as for IaaS instances in the Cloud.
What you'll do
- Global service manager for Database, including SQL, Oracle, Cosmos DB and cloud DB technologies
- Lead a global multi-locational cross-matrix team in a dynamic environment
- Drive the strategy and outcome for relational databases both on-prem and in cloud
- Be a champion of the database SRE function to drive agile delivery and collaboration between teams across regions
- Drive automation, configuration management and self-service capabilities to reduce manual workload and improve productivity and service
- Provide guidance and mentoring to team members within database SRE
- Work closely with other internal teams such as Cloud, Hosting, Application Dev/Support to deliver business outcomes
- Develop and lead a strategy to build the Database SRE team
- Develop and build out the Database SRE team with availability, performance, efficiency, automation, monitoring, observability, scalability, security, and simplicity as a key part of your SRE strategy
- Devise and execute, in conjunction with the Cloud team, a 1 year re-host & PaaS migration and budget reduction strategy
- Run proof of concepts for new infrastructure services or third party tooling to help with managing IaaS in the Cloud
- Continuously evolve and enhance database services security posture
- Devise innovative ideas for solving hard technical problems involving distributed systems, scale and security and translate these ideas into designs and implementation
- Work with peers across Enterprise Cloud team to understand service enhancement priorities
- Identify, triage, and constantly automate and evolve across Platform Services by pushing for change that improves reliability, operability and user experience
- Frequently review team productivity and efficiency, looking for further ways to automate TOIL across DB Operations
- Challenge the norm, and look for new ways of working
- Engineer and constantly evolve the automation ecosystem
- Engineer solutions that are fully automated using DevOps infrastructure-as-code and integrated in the CI/CD toolchain
- Every week solve exciting new challenges with an amazing team and technology stack
- Ensure Change The Business (CTB) budget objectives and Run The Business (RTB) budget objectives are met
The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need
- Extensive experience in database support and engineering
- Must have database infrastructure experience in a large organisation or global MNC
- Working knowledge of the following
- Microsoft SQL Server product line
- Microsoft Always On Availability Group
- Microsoft SSIS, SSAS & SSRS
- Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
- Microsoft SQL Server Data Migration Assistant
- Database backup and recovery
- Database monitoring, alerting and self-healing
- Data and database protection techniques and technologies
- Database performance tuning
- Database fleet management and automation framework
- Azure SQL Server
- Azure Data Migration Service

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