IT Database Engineer

IT Database Engineer London (Hybrid 2–3 days onsite) Contract | 6 Months 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 you'll be doing • Administering and supporting production database environments • Managing database security, backups, recovery and performance tuning • Supporting high availability and disaster recovery solutions • Working closely with technical teams and business stakeholders to deliver robust database solutions • Contributing to database upgrades, maintenance, monitoring and capacity planning • Assisting with automation and continuous improvement initiatives Must haves: • 5+ years' experience as a Production Database Administrator or Database Engineer. • Strong experience with at least two of the following: • Microsoft SQL Server • PostgreSQL • Oracle • Experience administering ClickHouse. • Experience administering Snowflake. • Experience with database monitoring, backup & recovery, performance tuning and disaster recovery. • Strong understanding of database security, permissions and access management. • Experience writing SQL (T-SQL, PL/SQL or similar) • Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments. Nice to have: • PowerShell, Shell scripting or Python. • Ansible or other automation tools. • Cloud database administration (Azure, AWS or GCP). • Experience within financial services, asset management or another highly regulated environment.