Infrastructure Engineer - Databases

Coventry Building Society have an exciting new role for an Infrastructure Engineer – Database to join the CIDO department.

The role holder will provide a deep level of technical knowledge and owns complex production incidents, collaborating with other technical teams to troubleshoot and ensure a complete resolution.  Runs small projects to resolve ITIL-defined service problems, allocating tasks to colleagues and ensuring completion of work to agreed quality criteria and timescales. Continually assesses ways of working in order to develop or revise artefacts and processes that improve team efficiency and effectiveness.  A role model within the team who provides mentoring and coaching to peers and junior team members.

We’ll require you to be available for out-of-hours support rota, with other DBAs on the Team after a suitable amount of training and familiarisation of the Society’s DB estate. Payments will be made for on-call as per the company’s on-call policy.

This role requires you to be on-site in Coventry 1 – 3 days per week for collaboration with peers and other CIDO events. 

You’ll have demonstrable broad expertise in your technical discipline with considerable depth in chosen specialist areas.  Essential experience delivering MS SQL Server services and solutions to a mission critical environment, experience of using the Microsoft Office products to create and manage documentation is required.

To be successful in this role, it’s essential that you’re able to demonstrate:

• Experience with MS SQL SERVER RDBMS 2019 and higher, including High availability (AOAG)
• A technical background in Production Infrastructure support for critical 24x7 services
• Technical proficiency in Database technologies, predominantly Microsoft SQL Server (on prem and AWS EC2), but also Oracle (on UNIX) and familiarity with AWS RDS would be an advantage
• Focus on troubleshooting, planning and mitigating risk
• Identify service improvements and efficiencies

Desirable skills for this role are:

• AWS Redshift (Operational Management)
• AWS RDS e.g., SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL
• Ansible automation
• Financial services experience is desirable

We’re one of the largest building societies in the UK and we share a mutual goal across our branches and our offices to improve the lives of others.

We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.

At the beginning of the year, The Co-operative Bank officially became part of our Group. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers, and colleagues.

We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.

All together, better.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the

Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.

If you would like to opt in to the scheme please contact our recruitment team when you apply via Get in touch - Coventry Building Society (coventrycareers.co.uk)