DBA Consultant

Job Description

DBA Consultant - Inside IR35 - Remote Working Available.TEKsystems are currently recruiting for a DBA Consultant to support a large scale migration project for a well known Data and Analytics customer.Description:Main Responsibilities• Diagnosis and resolution of complex database issues.• Working with diverse technical and non-technical teams, including Development, QA, IT Operations, Customer Operations and Project Management teams.• Write and maintain DBA documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.• Train junior-level staff as necessary, ensuring they are up to speed on critical processes and technologies.• Responsible for installation of new database infrastructure and equipment, as well as monitoring its stability.• Responsible for pro-actively keeping on top of security updates and making recommendations to apply major version upgrades.• This position requires On-Call rotation for off peak hours and is expected to cover out of hours maintenance activities when required.Essential Skills and Attributes• AWS or Azure migration experience.

• Professional experience of supporting a variety of RDBMS products in an enterprise environment – Specifically MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server.

• Hands on experience of working within the public cloud such as AWS or Azure and associated DBaaS technologies such as Remote Database Services or Azure SQL.• Proven ability to deep dive issues that involve database infrastructure, and subsequent fixes or optimisations.• Enterprise Database monitoring experience using native tools.• Experiencing of developing, displaying and maintaining metrics for areas such as performance or reporting purposes.• A demonstratable track record of researching new or alternative database technologies and making recommendations to drive change.• Proven and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate a broad technical knowledge.• Experience of leading projects, from design through to implementation.• Ability to act as a point of expertise, advise others in the team on best practise and impart knowledge.Desirable Skills• Use of orchestration tools such as Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation• Knowledge of change control and associated procedures.• Familiarity with Log Management tools e.g – Elastic Stack, Graylog or Splunk• Good knowledge of enterprise level networking and concepts (TCP/IP, VPNs, Firewalls).• Further public cloud knowledge and practical skills, around services such as compute (e.g. EC2), storage (e.g. S3, EBS), security (e.g. SGs, NACL), etc.• System administration of Linux / Windows.• System and application monitoring experience – e.g. Nagios, Cloudwatch, Grafana, Prometheus etc.Skills:

• terraform
• ansible
• Cloud (Azure and AWS)

If you are a DBA Consultant and interested in this opportunity then please do apply within. Alternatively you can email me directly at ggoughwesson@teksystems(.com)DBA Consultant - Inside IR35 - Remote Working Available.Job Title: DBA ConsultantLocation: Bracknell, UKRate/Salary: 500.00 - 550.00 GBP DailyJob Type: ContractTrading as TEKsystems. Allegis Group Limited, Maxis 2, Western Road, Bracknell, RG12 1RT, United Kingdom. No. 2876353. Allegis Group Limited operates as an Employment Business and Employment Agency as set out in the Conduct of Employment Agencies and EmploymentBusinesses Regulations 2003. TEKsystems is a company within the Allegis Group network of companies (collectively referred to as "Allegis Group"). Aerotek, Aston Carter, EASi, Talentis Solutions, TEKsystems, Stamford Consultants and The Stamford Group are AllegisGroup brands. If you apply, your personal data will be processed as described in the Allegis Group Online Privacy Notice available at https://en-gb/privacy-notices.To access our Online Privacy Notice, which explains what information we may collect, use, share, and store about you, and describes your rights and choices about this, please go to https://en-gb/privacy-notices.We are part of a global network of companies and as a result, the personal data you provide will be shared within Allegis Group and transferred and processed outside the UK, Switzerland and European Economic Area subject to the protections described in theAllegis Group Online Privacy Notice. We store personal data in the UK, EEA, Switzerland and the USA. If you would like to exercise your privacy rights, please visit the "Contacting Us" section of our Online Privacy Notice at https://en-gb/privacy-notices fordetails on how to contact us. To protect your privacy and security, we may take steps to verify your identity, such as a password and user ID if there is an account associated with your request, or identifying information such as your address or date of birth,before proceeding with your request. If you are resident in the UK, EEA or Switzerland, we will process any access request you make in accordance with our commitments under the UK Data Protection Act, EU-U.S. Privacy Shield or the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield.