Description
*SQL Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Contract - Camberley*
6 Month Rolling Contract
Camberley
£Competitive pwd
For more than 200 years, our global Financial Services Client has been helping people around the world connect with what matters most to them. The company is one of the world's leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services.
Responsibilities
- Develop tools, automations and self-healing to improve the operational consistency, reliability and scalability of our global database infrastructure; reducing toil and increasing efficiency
- Collaborate with our Design, Build and Operate DBA teams to achieve the above across all lines of business
- Drive standardisation of processes and approaches across all DBA teams
- Clearly document what you develop for both easy end user understanding and ongoing support of the code
- Involvement with incident management and response
- Identify sources of instability in distributed systems and drive operational excellence
- Developing metrics and dashboards
Essential Skills and Experience
- SQL Server (minimum 7 years), including some operational support
- Scripting, eg PowerShell
- Programming, eg Python, C#
- Ability to multi-task across different projects and prioritise against tight deadlines
- Strong collaboration and communication (written and verbal) within a team and across multiple teams
- Effective root cause analysis
Desirable Skills
- ITIL incident, problem and change management
- Automation frameworks
- Agile methodology
- Banking/finance experience
- Tableau
- Foglight database monitoring
TO APPLY - PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL WITH AN UP TO DATE CV Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered. Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly. Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.