Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Database Specialist) - HMRC - SEO

Location

Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Telford

About the job

Job summary

Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it’s really like to work at HMRC.

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HMRC is transforming the UK’s tax system through cutting-edge digital innovation and the Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) Group is at the heart of that mission. 

 We are building high-quality digital services that will enhance the customer experience, enable real-time interactions, and make tax simpler and more intuitive for everyone. By equipping our colleagues with modern tools and technologies, we are also reshaping how we work — allowing HMRC to focus its resources where they can deliver the greatest impact.

Job description

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Database Specialist), you will work in an Agile fast-paced environment helping to deliver and maintain database products and solutions. Already a skilled Practitioner and role model, you will ensure best practices are adhered to and guide teams on how to deliver and support quality database products. 

In addition, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, configuration, maintenance of critical database platforms in the cloud and on-premise, to ensure the availability and consistent performance of our products and services within agreed service levels. 

Person specification

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record as a Database Infrastructure Engineer or Database Administrator, and you will have experience of: 

• Providing effective database management and support gained in very large, highly available, enterprise-class environments. 
• Technical experience should include, but not limited to, database provisioning, security, backups and restores and on-premises to cloud migrations, with an emphasis on Oracle technology. 

Responsibilities 

• Proactively contribute to the Database Engineering Community of Practice by providing technical leadership and mentorship to less experienced team members. 
• Manage databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems on-premise and Cloud IaaS and PaaS environments. 
• Configure and maintain database servers, 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. 
• Assist developers with complex query tuning, schema refinement and cloud migration approaches. 

Essential Criteria: 

• Expertise in Oracle Database (19c and above), including Grid Infrastructure, Recovery Manager, Data Guard 
• Expertise in database management, performance tuning and SQL optimisation.
• Expertise in provisioning databases on Linux platforms.
• Practitioner level knowledge of Cloud infrastructure technologies such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, IaaS- and PaaS-based database solutions .
• Practitioner level skills in Linux OS and scripting.
• Working knowledge of DevOps practices, continuous delivery tooling (for example, Terraform, Ansible, Git) and database automation using the aforementioned tools.
• Must hold, or be eligible to obtain Security Clearance (SC). 

 Desirable Criteria 

• Practitioner level knowledge of one of the following database technologies: SQL Server or PostgreSQL.
• Working knowledge of Agile deliveries, collaborative tooling and techniques, including Jira and Kanban.
• Working knowledge of ITIL 4 processes.
• Understanding of government or public sector technology requirements.