Senior DevOps Database Engineer

What Youll Bring:

Were looking for a Senior DevOps Database Engineer to join our growing Development Operations team.

Working alongside and collaborating with Product Delivery teams on a daily basis you will be focused on helping to deliver new and key capabilities into the business. You will play a critical role in ensuring that systems are tuned and built to scale with proper controls in place to ensure high availability.

Your role will entail building and maintaining optimised and highly available database platforms automating all manual steps to ensure that deployments are repeatable reliable and rapid. The role will not just see you provide this as an initial service but you will then provide the means to which the development function can self serve to perform these installations via performant automated pipelines. Along the way you will be required to proactively lead or assist Product Delivery teams to troubleshoot issues within Route to Live environments provide consultancy in the area of Route to Live pipelines and their ongoing maintenance plus ensuring that teams understand the critical importance of oversight in how data is managed and secured. As solutions develop you will assist development teams ensure the operability of those solutions often providing a bridge between development and operational teams.

Day to Day Youll Be:

• Building and maintaining optimised and highly available database platforms.
• Building and continuously improving CI/CD Pipelines to ensure databases are deployed and configured using automation technologies.
• Establish consistent standards for ensuring High Availability and Fault Tolerant systems.
• Identify and execute on opportunities for automating relevant processes.
• Troubleshooting data issues providing consultancy in the area of data growth and ongoing maintenance.
• Proof of Concept work to enhance and support the work of the System Build team.
• Contribute to and evangelise community best practices.
• Establish yourself as the Subject Matter Expert for the Product area you are embedded within.
• Ensuring that systems are compliant (SOX PCI etc.).
• Manage own workload.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Held a DBA role for five or more years working with SQL Server ()
• Experience with SQL Server migrations and upgrades.
• Advanced use of T-SQL (stored procedures SQL Agent Jobs Deployment automation)
• Experience of High Availability / Disaster Recovery technologies (Mirroring Always On Availability Groups)
• Experience of Replication (especially transactional with centralised distribution)
• Proven experience of working with sensitive data in a secure manner.
• Solid understanding of DevOps Agile Scrum Kanban processes and methodologies
• Familiarity with use of source control especially around database projects (including branching workflow peer reviews etc.)
• Good technical understanding of TFS/Azure DevOps Server and Octopus Deploy.
• Basic level of PowerShell scripting.
• Excellent troubleshooting/fault resolution skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Willingness to learn and embrace industry developments and practices from both a Development and Operations background.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Held a DBA role for two or more years working with a range of On-Prem / Azure hosted Database technologies (Azure SQL Database / Managed Instance)
• Good knowledge of OLAP and SSIS.
• Familiarity with either Octopus Deploy TFS/Azure DevOps Server.
• Monitoring toolsets (Splunk Foglight etc.)
• Agile Scrum Kanban processes and methodologies
• Advanced PowerShell

Impact Youll Make:

Whats In It For you
At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly forward thinking global business.
As well as an excellent salary and bonus scheme or commission scheme (if joining our sales teams) our benefits package comes with:

• 26 days annual leave bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Global paid wellness days off a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday
• A generous contributory pension scheme access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Private health care a variety of physical mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools
• Access to our diversity forums and communities so you can get involved in causes close to your heart

TransUnion a place to grow:
If theres something on the list of essential / desirable skills that you cant quite tick off dont let that put you off applying. We are open to exploring training and development opportunities for the right candidate to ensure you are successful.
We know imposter syndrome is real lets confront it so we can continue to grow and thrive together.

Flexibility at TU:
We recognise that our people need the freedom to balance their day-to-day lives with their work. This is why weve set out to create inclusive and flexible policies and practices for you to accommodate all your responsibilities and needs: children family and beyond. If the role is advertised as full time dont let this stop you from applying. Let us know if youre looking for a part time or flexible working arrangement and we can discuss this with you.