Database Infrastructure Engineer

Job Title: - Database Infrastructure Engineer

Mode: - Onsite

Location: - Ashton, Northampton.

Job Description

• This role will involve occasional foreign travel to customer sites, and be based in our offices in the UK, near Northampton.
• The role includes building and maintaining IT infrastructure on customer platforms and provide support to our internal IT systems.
• This includes Microsoft MSSQL and MySQL DBMS, virtualisation as well as general IT infrastructure.
• All systems need to run 24/7 and will adopt any forms of high availability and replication (potentially both) to aid that goal.
• Monitoring backups is as equally important to the recovery of running systems.
• There is ample opportunity to grow and progress through the business, learning new skills and diversifying in role.
• The role will suit someone with a broad knowledge of databases and other aspects of IT, including hardware, software and OS.
• The ideal candidate will be organised and pragmatic, as the role is sometimes customer facing, the candidate should have clear communication skills and be presentable.
• The role is 100% office based and due to location would be preferable for the candidate to hold a full driving license.

Essential

• Strong Microsoft SQL Server experience (Availability Groups and Replication)
• Strong MySQL Experience (Galera Clusters)
• Database design and performance tuning.
• Firewall, Networking and VPN configuration and maintenance
• Virtualisation, vCenter, vSphere

Desirable

• Neo4J Graph Database
• Cloud Technologies with an emphasis on security and stability
• Operating systems including Linux, Ubuntu
• Active Directory administration
• IP cameras, base stations, VOIP phones
• Internet of Things protocols, (MQTT and/or LoRaWAN)
• Hardware (servers, desktops, laptops, mobile phones)
• Delivering virtual and face to face training to users of varying technical abilities