Database Infrastructure Engineer

3 weeks ago


Scotland, UK, United Kingdom Venesky Brown Full time

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit an Database Infrastructure Engineer for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £494/day (Outside of IR35). These roles will be predominantly remote based with office working required occasionally.


Responsibilities:


- Major version upgrade of the current on-prem MongoDB Estate

- Major version upgrades to multiple on-prem Postgres databases

- Support development teams with on-prem migrations to AWS RDS

- Help migrate our current on-prem Grafana instance to containers deployed on OpenShift

- Enhance database logging infrastructure with AWS OpenSearch

- Support the Database team with ongoing BAU tasks such as upgrading, patching, automation, and monitoring improvements etc.

- Help with Support Requests raised by our stakeholders.

- Collaborate with colleagues, to define, refine and prioritise the database roadmap and backlog.

- Actively participate in all team events, leading where specialist knowledge is required and supporting the team to improve their process through inspection and adaptation.

- Engage with the wider organisation’s communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, technique, and experience.

- Knowledge share with other team members as necessary.

- Developing appropriate documentation and artefacts, e.g., data standards, local work instructions.

- Support updating, installing, and testing new versions and upgrades to databases.

- Troubleshooting and resolving database related issues.

- Ensure existing on-prem estate continues to meet service standards until migration to AWS has been completed.

- Ensure CDK constructs embody agreed standards for resiliency, security, and backups, and meet agreed standards for quality.



Essential Skills:


- Ansible

- CDK and AWS Development Tools including CloudFormation

- OpenSearch / ElasticSearch

- AWS IAM, S3, EC2, RDS

- MongoDB

- Postgres

- SQL

- Monitoring solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, Grafana)

- Making excellent quality software with other people.

- Working with business stakeholders, to understand the context and to focus on delivering value.

- Design and implementation of solutions using a service-based and serverless architecture.

- Excellent collaboration, communication, and teamwork skills

- Experience working in the Agile delivery models - such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks.

- Cloud database monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes

- Defining infrastructure-as-code

- Testing of disaster recovery procedures

- Data replication and high-availability technology



Desirable Skills:


- Experience delivering new software that consumes services from a centralised database management team.

- Informix

- Oracle

- Serverless (Lambda)

- Typescript


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