Postgres Database Administrator

About the Role

Grade Level (for internal use) :

The Team

The Managed Services team is responsible for managing and supporting our Managed Services clients. The role involves being a member of the database team within Managed Services which is responsible for maintaining managed services databases on the cloud including :

• Administration
• Housekeeping
• Change Management
• Support and issue resolution
• Monitoring
• Tuning

Furthermore, the Managed Services team is responsible for all of the infrastructure, and ensuing automation required, to support continuous integration and continuous delivery of our Software Development Lifecycle Process.

• Maintenance and provisioning of all internal environment and integration databases
• Administration of all internal Postgres instances and servers
• Development, documentation and governance of all DDL and DML product scripts
• Packaging of Database Releases
• Providing client troubleshooting support and SQL script development / reviews and general Postgres expertise for the support desk
• Offering support and expertise to ensure maximum uptime of environments
• Ensure that client SLAs are strictly adhered to
• Involved in core team tasks including data modelling, governance and quality of database artefacts as well as release packaging

Candidates will be required to liaise with the other groups within the Managed Services Team to ensure the overall team works together as a unit.

Candidates will also need to be able to liaise with various other teams ( Architecture, Design Authority, Support) to ensure changes to the database or support issues are dealt with comprehensively.

Candidates should be familiar with operating in a challenging production environment supported from different locations and should also have a good appreciation of Development processes, toolsets and delivery infrastructure, and be comfortable working with multiple differing systems and tools.

The successful applicant will be required to work within a team structure. The candidate should demonstrate a willingness to learn new technologies, processes, toolsets and be comfortable working with multiple differing systems.

What's in for you"

• Management of all managed services environments (internal and client-facing)
• Provide support for any database related issues to all clients, particularly managed services clients
• Manage high severity incidents via SPGI process and work with all stakeholders to resolve issues as soon as possible including attending client bridge calls
• Ensure Database requests are dealt with within defined SLA’s
• Modelling and scripting database changes for all our products
• Ensure client releases are packaged and made available in a timely manner
• Be available for occasional on-call rotation or weekend deployments

Education & experience

• 8+ years of experience in similar role with Degree in Technology, Computer Science, IT or a related course
• Proficient in PostgresAdministrationpsql, PL / pgSQL Backup - pgdump / pgrestorePerformance TuningMonitoringSecurityHigh Availability
• Good Linux / Unix knowledge
• Good Database skills - Data Modelling, Database Release management
• Experience in AWS Cloud including Amazon Aurora
• Experience in Performance Tuning and Monitoring

Experience of the following technologies :

• JIRA / Service Now
• Confluence
• Shell scripting
• Knowledge of database migration tools is beneficial

Commercial awareness

• Knowledge of Corporate Actions business is major advantage
• Knowledge of financial markets or financial feeds would be very useful

Personal impact

• Significant customer service focus
• Willingness to learn new skills
• Excellent Problem Solving Skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong inter-personal skills with practical, can-do approach
• Self-motivated, proactive work ethic
• Good personal time management and ability to complete individual work assignments without daily supervision

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