Description:

The Database Administrator (DBA) SRE is part of the Cloud Team, focusing on delivering cloud-related database services and products to internal customers.
They provide end-to-end database support for cloud services through monitoring, incident response, and incident resolution for both Public and Private Cloud Platform environments.
The DBA SRE supports incidents affecting hosted database workloads, ensuring timely service to the owning teams who are customers of the database platforms.
They monitor databases to ensure availability, reliability, security, and performance, responding to incidents and escalating them as necessary to meet SLA requirements.
The role involves following incident, change, release, and problem management processes, participating in and driving root cause analysis on incidents to improve stability for all customers.
They are experts in observability, responsible for centralized database platform monitoring and alerting tooling, setting direction for greater observability.
The DBA SRE seeks to automate repetitive tasks, developing Run books and Playbooks for organizational use.
They support development teams in taking on more database operations responsibilities and drive DevOps practices to efficiently scale cloud workloads.

Requirements:

Candidates must have experience in physical database support for both IaaS and PaaS environments.
They should be skilled in database systems administration, including backup and recovery, log examination, access rights maintenance, and database instance version control.
Experience in database monitoring, including manual/script technical items and critical database detection and notification, is essential.
Candidates must be proficient in database structural maintenance, including space and storage management, object management, and temporary space management.
Knowledge of patch management, including identification, testing, packaging, and application of security updates and support packs, is required.
Candidates should have engineering support experience, managing and supporting database environments with deep technical skills and problem-solving abilities.
They must be able to advise on best practices for production operation of Database PaaS environments and implement maintenance plans for optimal production configuration.
Participation in an on-call rota is expected.

The position offers a fully remote working mode, providing flexibility in work location.
It is a 6-month contract role, allowing for a defined period of engagement.
The role is inside IR35, ensuring compliance with tax regulations for contractors.
Opportunities for professional development and skill enhancement in cloud database management and DevOps practices are available.