Senior Database Reliability Engineer
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Job Summary
As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue SS&C is headquartered in Windsor Connecticut and has 27000 employees in 35 countries. Some 20000 financial services and healthcare organizations from the worlds largest companies to small and mid-market firms rely on SS&C for expertise scale and technology.
Job Description
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Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Locations: London Essex Hybrid
The Opportunity
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Database Reliability Engineer with proven expertise working in an operational environment using MongoDB and PostgreSQL. This role requires a database reliability expert who can thrive in a dynamic environment supporting and enhancing highly available highly reliable database deployments ensuring optimal performance and mentoring junior engineers to support our applications.
This position will play a vital role in ensuring our containerization initiatives succeed and support both MongoDB and PostgreSQL deployments. The ideal candidate will have experience in containerised MongoDB and PostgreSQL deployment under Kubernetes and Docker with substantial experience in automating reliable deployments building and maintaining resilience within the database platform secure database operations methodologies observability and performance management.
We are also exploring other NoSQL database engines to support our production strength applications so experience with diverse database systems is a plus.
What You Will Get To Do:
- Ensure that the production and lower environments aredeployed configuredmaintainedandmonitoredforreliabilityand resilience.
- Ensure the environments arefullyperformantin supportoftheapplication
- Implement industry best practices for database performance security backup disasterrecoveryand secure data removal/transfer.
- Maintain vendor relationships in support of the environments
- Providetechnical leadership andan escalation point for the team of junior engineers
- Design andmaintainCI/CD pipelines specific to database operations with an emphasis on automation and scalability.
- Collaborate withprivate cloudDevOpsand development teamsin all aspects of deployment andmaintenance
- Mentor junior engineers and act as a technical advisor to cross-functional teams.
What You Will Bring:
- 5 years of hands-on experience withMongoDBandPostgreSQLin alarge-scaleenvironment.
- ExpertisewithCloud-based database services.
- Experiencewith a data platform inAI (ArtificialIntelligence)
- ExpertisewithKubernetes and Dockerfor containerised applications.
- Advanced skills ininfrastructurecodingandautomation usingPythonAnsible Terraformand GHA (GitHub Action).
- Experience with performance tuning optimisation and scalability of databases.
- Strong understanding of databaseobservabilitysecurity backups and disaster recovery strategies.
- Excellent leadership problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment and influence cross-functional teams.
Preferred:
- Proficiencyin Analyticsdatabase technologies likeClickHouseStarRocks etc.
- Familiarity withCI/CD tools likeArgoCD/Jenkinsfor database operations.
- Strong understanding of distributed database architecture.
#Digital Worker Enabled Reed#
# Initials: &DWPT #
# Location: LONDON #
# Keywords: MongoDB PostgreSQL Kubernetes Database Reliability #
Why You Will Love It Here!
- Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
- Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
- Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
- Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the well-being of our staff
- Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
- Training: Hands-On Team-Customised throughout your career
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. Its important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.
Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable to further explore this opportunity please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies Inc. or any of its affiliated companies the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters recruitment agencies or fee-based recruitment services.
SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race color religious creed gender age marital status sexual orientation national origin disability veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Kubernetes
- FMEA
- Continuous Improvement
- Elasticsearch
- Go
- Root cause Analysis
- Maximo
- CMMS
- Maintenance
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Troubleshooting
About Company
Leading cloud-based provider of financial services technology solutions. SS&C Technologies owns and maintains the best financial technology in the industry
