Route to Live Senior Database Engineer

Business Unit: COO, Quality Assurance

💰: £40,000 - £55,000 per annum per annum DOE + red-hot benefits

📍: Remote with occasional visits to the local hub (Gosforth/Glasgow)

Be a change maker with more cha-ching. Live a life more Virgin.

Our team❤

The Route to Live Team believe that good change is built on good test environments which is why we aspire to deliver the best System Integration Test Environments to support our testing and ensure that all change is delivered in an innovative way to deliver the best for our customers.

What you’ll be doing✨

Our work is highly specialised, high profile and fast paced, so you will be expected to:

•Self-manage in a professional and proactive manner, prioritizing work load & deliverables in conjunction with our Environment Managers

• Support non-production services through proactive identification of risk, swift resolution of issues and proposing appropriate fixes/improvements for future

• Working closely with Technical Teams and Project Managers to ensure the delivery of database solutions meet the organisation’s standards

• Defect/Issue/Problem investigation & resolution, working with the relevant Service Centres to resolve

• Deliver improvements to maintain and improve agreed level of environment availability

• Implement appropriate improvement initiatives into the test environments against agreed timetable

• Collaborate with internal and external parties in order to provide excellent test environments

• Improve our processes through process automation, innovation and continuous improvement

• Keep your knowledge current in regard to Oracle database technologies including but not limited to Cloud platforms including Exadata and OCI

• Think “outside the box” to find new and innovative solutions to issues

🌟We need you to have

• A strong understanding and experience in supporting Oracle databases (10g, 11g, 12c and 19)

• Experience supporting an Enterprise level database estate

• Experience of undertaking database patching and upgrades (ideally to 19)

• Knowledge and understanding of Grid Infrastructure

• ITIL Service Management awareness (Change & Problem Management processes)

• Oracle RMAN backup and Recovery experience

• Oracle Tuning and Optimisation skills

• Experience of working with SQL databases

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Oracle Linux, Linux, AIX, and Solaris Operating System experience

• familiarity with the Atlassian toolset especially Jira & Confluence

• Experience of virtualisation toolsets, such as Delphix

• Awareness of Flashback technologies

• Experience of working in an Agile Framework/delivery model

Red Hot Rewards🎁

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​.
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can🏃‍♀️💨. If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you🤝.

🕕Applications Close: 26 Sep 2024 (11.55pm BST)