Infrastructure Engineer, VP (Oracle DBA)

Join us as an Infrastructure Engineer

You will engineer infrastructure technology for public and private cloud environments, complying with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in.

You will 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 user's 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.

We are offering this role at vice president level.

What you'll do

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will 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 will look to you to collaborate with stakeholders to inform product roadmaps, detailing lifecycles of the technology from new products through to end of support and retirement. You will also support engineered products and respond to user feedback, new feature requests, and resolve production issues wanted by the Product Owner.

Additionally, you will:

• Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development.
• Work within a team to design intuitive, self-service infrastructure products.
• Use automation to provide testing and a route to live for the product, working with customers to help them use our products appropriately, i.e., through a user's CI/CD pipeline.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to inform product roadmaps, detailing lifecycles of the technology from new products through to end of support and retirement.
• Analyze and improve the performance of the database, in collaboration with application developers.
• Ensure stable delivery and operation of the database infrastructure (primarily Oracle and AWS RDS with preference for MSSQL, AWS Aurora PostgreSQL), cloud-based or on-prem.

The skills you'll need

To thrive in this role, you will have experience in software development or automation scripting such as Python or Shell, with an understanding of the software development lifecycle. You will also have experience in utilizing modern infrastructure as code via tooling.

We will 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 will need:

• Experience of working as a Database Administrator for at least one specific DB technology with AWS RDS databases and necessary services in AWS.
• Experience in setting up resource monitoring with Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and its analysis on Oracle database servers, specific tools e.g., RMAN and Oracle RAC.
• Experience of high availability solutions, disaster recovery, business continuity technologies, and integration methodologies.
• Experience of working with operating systems like Solaris, Redhat, Windows Server.
• Experience in ITIL for Incident, Change, and Problem Management.