Connecting Talent to opportunity

Connecting Talent to opportunity

Senior Database Infrastructure Engineer CM408-CM410

Expired

Job Description:

The Team

Case Management Delivery Group (CMDG) are responsible for providing case and content management solutions used by around 26k colleagues across various directorates within HMRC.

Our goal is to deliver reliable, secure, and supportable IT Products and we are made up of Product Teams based in Telford, Newcastle and Bristol who are accountable for the whole delivery lifecycle for the Products they support.

CMDG is concluding the migration of its Products to Cloud hosted solutions and is now looking to exploit the opportunities provided by these Products being on more flexible and scalable platforms.

 

The Role

You will work in an Agile fast-paced environment helping to deliver and maintain database products and solutions which underpin HMRC’s digital strategy to operate as a ‘Digital by Default’ organisation.

Already a skilled Practitioner and role model you will ensure best practices are adhered to and guide teams on how to deliver quality database products.

 

Ideal Candidate

You will have a validated experience as a Database Infrastructure Engineer or Database Administrator, in very large, highly available, enterprise-class environments.

Comfortable working in agile environments you will be a proactive leader who is eager to learn new technologies

Duties will include:

  • Proactively contribute to the Database Engineering Community of Practice by providing technical leadership and mentorship, cross-training to other team members,
  • Handle databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to critically important production systems on on-premise and Hyperscale Cloud IaaS and PaaS environments.
  • Configure and maintain database servers and processes, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure optimum levels of performance, availability, security, and automation.
  • Support architects and developers to ensure design, development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations.
  • Independently analyse, tackle, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
  • Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.

Essential criteria

You will already have knowledge, understanding and experience of:

  • Database provisioning, security, backups and restores and on-premise to cloud migrations, with an emphasis on Oracle technology
  • Cloud technologies (e.g AWS and Microsoft Azure, IaaS- and PaaS-based database solutions)
  • Oracle Database (12c and above), including Grid Infrastructure, Recovery Manager, Data Guard and Goldengate
  • Database management, performance tuning and SQL optimisation
  • Provisioning databases on Linux platforms
  • Linux OS and scripting skills
  • DevOps practices, continuous delivery tooling (for example, Terraform, Ansible, Git) and database automation using these tools
  • Agile delivery, collaborative tooling, and techniques, including Jira and Kanban
  • ITIL4 processes
  • Analysing issues and providing advice on solutions with reports and documentation to support resolution

Desirable criteria

Ideally you will also have had exposure to

  • Open-Source databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
  • NoSQL databases such as Mongo
  • Container technologies such as Docker

Qualifications ( all or some of)

  • Oracle Associate or Professional Certification
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner or Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification
  • AWS Database Specialty or Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
  • AWS SysOps Administrator Associate or Azure Administrator Associate Certification

Additional Information

  • You will be expected to be included in a 24x7 on-call rota to perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours
  • Ideally you will already have SC Clearance or higher ( or a willingness to acquire )

We believe that supporting staff to achieve their optimum work/life balance arrangements is a priority. Where business requirements permit we are therefore committed to offering flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We are committed to offering flexible working within our organisation. We will consider all requests to work part-time, flexibly or on a job-share basis. Please speak to the recruitment team or the hiring manager if you would like to discuss flexible working arrangements. 

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer, welcome applications from people who may need reasonable adjustments. As such we encourage anybody who needs a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process to contact the recruiter or hiring manager dealing with your application who will discuss the reasonable adjustments required with you.

A copy of the RCDTS Book of Benefits is attached to this job advert, here you will find additional benefits available to employees.

All applicants will need to provide proof that they have the right to work in the UK. Information on Right to Work legislation can be found at Right to Work in UK

A copy of the RCDTS Book of Benefits is attached to this job advert

If you are applying for a role in an office within a regional centre location or a transitional or specialist site, then the following may apply: Daily Travel Assistance will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current RCDTS employee and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the department’s Daily Travel Assistance guidance.

A reserve list may be created if suitable candidates are identified and will last for a period of 12 months. 

HMRC’s Technology Sourcing Programme 

HMRC faces a number of contract expiries combined with the need to re-balance control over its digital and technology capability to ensure HMRC can respond quickly and effectively to changing requirements and priorities.

This is a multi-year programme to transform how HMRC delivers and uses IT. The programme is in place to design and deliver the safe disaggregation, exit and transition of HMRC’s major IT contracts and stand-up new arrangements to deliver both IT run and change activity.

The programme will develop and implement a new technology supply chain model, protect live services, enable the department to remediate and prevent technical debt, reduce risk in our IT estate, improve cost effectiveness, provide flexibility and establish partnerships with suppliers to deliver innovation.

Please contact [email protected] if you would like to discuss any of the above prior to application.