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# IT Database Engineer

- **Company:** It Database Engineerwe
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** BASIC (Programming Language), Unix, Databases, Data Warehousing, Database Design, Disaster Recovery, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Operational Databases, Oracle (Applications), Windows PowerShell, Ansible, Shell Script, PL-SQL, SQL Databases, Transact-SQL, Alwayson, System Availability, Snowflake, Vertica
- **Published:** October 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/it-database-engineer/50410477

## About the Role

maintain, administrate, secure, backup and recovery across production, back test, UAT and development environmentsExperience of managing security and permissionsKnowledge of industry best practicesGood attention to detail, testing and documentationOrganized with a proactive approach to work. Team player essential.Experience in scripting in Powershell/Shell script, python, ansible would be a plusExperience in cloud DB admin would be a plusWhy join us:Placing you as a key member of the global DB team to help support, administrate, and secure our key databases.A role with the potential to be exposed to many aspects of DB projects including Administration, Always-on/High Availability, Capacity-Planning, Data Warehouse, DB design,Work closely with users from all parts of business to define and resolve information flow, and content issues, helping to enable and support the transformation of business requirements into database solutions, to design and develop robust cutting-edge systems to
keep business at the forefront of its field.Opportunity to move into a highly visible role to deliver value-added high-quality work and expand on your experience in working with the Microsoft DB/ BI full stack too. #J-18808-Ljbffr

## Description

IT Database EngineerWe are seeking an experienced IT Database Engineer to join our client's growing infrastructure team.This is an excellent opportunity to work in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment where you'll be responsible for supporting, administering and securing critical production databases. You'll play a key role in ensuring high availability, performance and resilience across the database estate while contributing to ongoing infrastructure and database projects.What we are looking for:5 years + experience in production database administration. At least 2 of the following: SQL-Server, PostgreSQL and Oracle are essential.Experience in database administration within a production environment for below DB products is a plus but not essential: ClickHouse, snowflake,Basic understanding of DB monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery, and performance tuningFamiliarity with UNIX/LinuxExperience in one or more database programming languages (SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL etc.) for design