Database Administrator / Engineer
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Senior Database Administrator / Engineer (Sybase DBA) London to £200k+ 12 month FTC
Do you have expertise with Sybase database?
You could be progressing your career at a hugely profitable Hedge Fund.
As a Senior Database Administrator / Engineer you will be responsible for managing and improving a mission-critical, diverse data platform as part of a small, talented team. You'll have a broad scope from providing operational support through to leading continuous design and implementation to enhance scalability, reduce redundancy and ensure fault tolerance of data systems.
You will construct and manage integrations with monitoring and alerting systems to increase internal visibility and automatically respond to incidents in various environments, building and enhancing security controls, governance processes and management interfaces to reduce permitter and improve risk profile.
As a senior team member you'll also act as a subject matter expert and mentor more junior DBAs and developers to ensure the platform is supported and used appropriately, including designing and building tools to automate operational processes.
Location / WFH:
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Requirements
- You have achieved a 2.1 or above in a relevant field e.g. Data, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Analysis or other quantitative discipline
- You have commercial experience in a similar role at an investment firm or asset manager with a good understanding of various asset classes such as Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and Commodities
- You have strong RDBMS experience, including Sybase expertise, Postgres and SQL
- You have a good knowledge of Linux OS
- You have experience with modern tools such as Kafka, MongoDB, SAP IQ, Ansible and Python
- You have excellent communication and client facing skills
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Benefits & conditions
Please note this role is on a 12 month Fixed Term Contract basis, with benefits
As a Senior Database Administrator / Engineer (Sybase DBA) you will earn a highly competitive salary plus a fully comprehensive benefits package including:
- Salary to £200k
- Generous Pension contribution
- Life Assurance, Critical Illness cover
- Childcare vouchers
- Enhanced Paternity package and Adoption Assistance
- Charitable fund raising matching and much more
