Infrastructure Engineer, Db2
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Job description
This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.
Join us as an Infrastructure Engineer, Db2
- You'll engineer Db2 related infrastructure technology complying with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in
- You'll also use automation to provide testing and a route to live for the product, working with customers to help them use our products appropriately through a users' CI or CD pipeline
- This is a chance to work with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices, allowing you to expand your network and gain exposure for you and your work
What you'll do
As an Infrastructure Engineer, you'll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, strategic targets and architecture outcomes, along with developing products using modern engineering practices and tools.
We'll look to you to collaborate with stakeholders to design and support engineered products and respond to user feedback, new feature requests and resolve production issues wanted by the Product Owner.
Additionally, you'll:
- Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development
- Work within a team to design intuitive, self-service infrastructure products
- Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions
- Work with users to help use our products and gain feedback
- Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues
- Generate innovative ideas and drive the delivery of those through product features
- Advise and deliver projects using Db2 for z/OS database design principles and best practices
Requirements
Do you have experience in Software development?, To thrive in this role, you'll have experience in Db2 database design and administration, automation scripting such as Python or Shell, with an understanding of the software development lifecycle. You'll also have experience in utilizing modern infrastructure as code via tooling. Experience with IBM Db2 toolset will be beneficial.
We'll expect you to bring a good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets with the ability to relate everyday work to the vision of the feature team, platform and domain.
Furthermore, you'll need:
- Strong experience in Db2 for z/OS database design principles and best practices
- Proven experience conducting SQL performance reviews and optimization
- Hands-on experience with DDL deployments and implementation in accordance with established standards and governance
- Ability to design and implement robust housekeeping, backup, and recovery strategies
- Working knowledge of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling
- Experience of using observability tools and techniques and the ability to use data, information and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions
- Experience of working with technology deployed to an on premise datacentre
- An understanding of a DevOps mind-set, collaboration, automation and tooling
Benefits & conditions
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- On-site parking, Here's a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.
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Your pay package
90% Base pay This is the part your your pay package that you take home every month.
10% Pension funding 10% of your salary goes towards your pension every month.
Your leave allowance
28 days Annual leave You'll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.
3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you're passionate about.
3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.