Senior Engineer, Database Administration

Overview

We are looking for a Database Engineer who will craft and detail the strategies for backup and recovery, carry out performance analysis, provide data management and user and developer assistance, and also be a point of escalation for first line support. The job holder will provide production and development support for Sybase databases.

Key Responsibilities

– Develop and maintain standards for database builds, database security, patching, high availability and disaster recovery.

– Monitor and configure database resources to ensure optimum performance.

– Handle database procedures such as backup/restore and database version upgrades.

– Undertake maintenance and upgrade tasks, generally out of normal business hours including weekends.

– Provide database design support to development projects.

– Undertake database performance tuning and diagnostics.

– Assist Unix administrators as necessary to support applications that use our databases.

– Provide support shift cover and be available for on-call service.

– Seek and implement opportunities for automating manual database management tasks.

– Evaluate and implement strategies to align to IT security policies.

Essential Skills

– Experience of supporting business critical applications in a multi data center environment.
– Sybase ASE 15.0.3 – 16.0.

– Sybase IQ 15.3 – 16.1.

– Sybase Replication Server.

– Sybase Direct Connect.

– Database Infrastructure installs, upgrades and patching.

– Sybase high availability and disaster recovery strategies.

– Experience of one other database technology among PostgreSQL, SQL Server and Oracle.

– Experience of supporting databases in a Cloud environment.

Nice to have

– Familiarity with monitoring and administrative tools: Delphix, Whitesands, Geneos, Datadog.
– Understanding of ITIL Service Framework.

– Shell Scripting and ISQL.

Benefits

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days’ holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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