DBA Consultant - Inside IR35 - Remote Working Available.

TEKsystems are currently recruiting for a DBA Consultant to support a large scale migration project for a well known Data and Analytics customer.

Description:

Main Responsibilities

Diagnosis and resolution of complex database issues.

Working with diverse technical and non-technical teams, including Development, QA, IT Operations, Customer Operations and Project Management teams.

Write and maintain DBA documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.

Train junior-level staff as necessary, ensuring they are up to speed on critical processes and technologies.

Responsible for installation of new database infrastructure and equipment, as well as monitoring its stability.

Responsible for pro-actively keeping on top of security updates and making recommendations to apply major version upgrades.

This position requires On-Call rotation for off peak hours and is expected to cover out of hours maintenance activities when required.

Essential Skills and Attributes

AWS or Azure migration experience .

Professional experience of supporting a variety of RDBMS products in an enterprise environment - Specifically MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server.

Hands on experience of working within the public cloud such as AWS or Azure and associated DBaaS technologies such as Remote Database Services or Azure SQL.

Proven ability to deep dive issues that involve database infrastructure, and subsequent fixes or optimisations.

Enterprise Database monitoring experience using native tools.

Experiencing of developing, displaying and maintaining metrics for areas such as performance or reporting purposes.

A demonstratable track record of researching new or alternative database technologies and making recommendations to drive change.

Proven and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate a broad technical knowledge.

Experience of leading projects, from design through to implementation.

Ability to act as a point of expertise, advise others in the team on best practise and impart knowledge.

Desirable Skills

Use of orchestration tools such as Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation

Knowledge of change control and associated procedures.

Familiarity with Log Management tools eg - Elastic Stack, Graylog or Splunk

Good knowledge of enterprise level networking and concepts (TCP/IP, VPNs, Firewalls).

Further public cloud knowledge and practical skills, around services such as compute (eg EC2), storage (eg S3, EBS), security (eg SGs, NACL), etc.

System administration of Linux/Windows.

System and application monitoring experience - eg Nagios, Cloudwatch, Grafana, Prometheus etc.

Skills:

• terraform
• ansible
• Cloud (Azure and AWS)

If you are a DBA Consultant and interested in this opportunity then please do apply within. Alternatively you can email me directly.

DBA Consultant - Inside IR35 - Remote Working Available.

Job Title: DBA Consultant

Location: Bracknell, UK

Rate/Salary: .00 GBP Daily

Job Type: Contract

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