Database Administrator

Job Description

Job Title: Data Platform Administrator
Location: Edinburgh (hybrid)

Company:

Primis is currently partnered with a leading technology company dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that empower businesses in the UK. Their team is comprised of talented individuals who thrive in fast paced environments and are passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and creating meaningful impact.

Position Overview:

We are looking for an Data Platform Administrator, someone who can deliver operational excellence and stability in our data platforms that underpin the services we deliver for our customers. As well as the day-to-day you will also have input into the design and delivery of our next generation hybrid cloud products. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a wider technical team that will help define the future of hospitality both in the UK and abroad.

Key Responsibilities:

We’d like you to:

Build strong, collaborative relationships with architects, operations and engineering teams
Implement and maintain secure, scalable and highly available data platforms within our datacentre and public cloud environments
Build and continually improve tooling, monitoring and security controls
Own the data platform aspects of DR plans and processes
Continually improve maintenance and patching procedures
Contribute to a culture where automate, tool and document is the norm
Participate in on-call cover and Incident Response
Play a key role in change management

Who you are :

You should have had a background in highly available database services having spent at least some of your career as a member of a production engineering or database administration team.

Essential skills :

Experienced in design, implementation and day-to-day running of enterprise level data platforms, data lake concepts and data handling
Solid monitoring and tuning skills in highly available transactional or API-centric environments
Working with large-scale, uptime-centric services
Data protection, security and data integrity procedures
Comfortable in hands-on and PowerShell administration, automation, and tooling in complex provisioning and deployment scenarios
Quick to spot opportunities in new capabilities, a fast learner with a passion for building and sharing knowledge
A self-starter with a passion for technology and problem solving
Organised, with a safe pair of hands and attention to detail
Minimum 3+ years’ experience

Desirable, but not a must :

Administrative experience in Microsoft SQL server, Azure SQL
Administrative experience in AtlasDB by MongoDB
Experience in a Software as a Service, Managed Services Provider (MSP), multi-tenanted or multi-site environment

How to Apply:
Quick apply or send CV to

aaron.steltner@primis -talent.com