Hybrid Senior Database Administrator – Private Cloud Infrastructure

at Lloyds Banking Group

• Job title: Senior Database Administrator – Private Cloud Infrastructure
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £70,929 - £78,810 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Azure, Chef, Cloud, Oracle, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Leeds, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Database Administrator specializing in Private Cloud Infrastructure at Lloyds Banking Group. Involved in driving tech modernization and managing Oracle database technologies while mentoring a specialist team.

Responsibilities

• Understand the business area to facilitate the best solution design with team members and product owners
• Be environment aware, identify technical impediments / bottlenecks and work directly to resolve
• Be technology agnostic and willing to adapt approach in pursuit of the best solution
• Be anchored to core engineering area and carry the ability to test and learn
• Understand Systems Thinking and Service Design to mitigate reactive solutions that leads to further technical debt
• Understand agile and the relationship between agile definitions and automated delivery
• Be passionate about automating everything
• Be industry aware and understand the importance of new technical approaches to evolve solutions and the experience of the team
• Can mentor and coach others, always sharing knowledge for the benefit of the team

Requirements

• Expertise in a private cloud environment specialising in one or more of the following technologies: Oracle Database 12c, 19c, 23/26ai
• Oracle OCI Console, OEM
• Oracle Cloud at Customer/OCI/Oracle Database@Azure
• Oracle Autonomous Database
• Supporting, managing and designing enterprise systems, including HA/DR solutions
• Agile ways of working
• Designing or contributing to solutions for a Private Cloud Environment
• Backup / Restore and Disaster recovery processes
• Defect Management
• Performance Optimisation
• Technical fault-finding Level 3 & 4
• Security best practices and compliance standards
• Mentoring Colleagues and supporting technical development of others
• Service design and associated methodologies
• Problem solving and communication skills
• Industry based best practice
• Any experience of DevOps, Automation Tooling (Chef/Terraform/Ansible) would be really useful.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies