DevOps support (focused on DBA)

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Who Speclialist Work With Within the Infrastructure Product Group team, which consists of other DevOps Lead, DevOps engineers, team manager, and SecOps engineers. What Specialists Work On 1. Support and maintain a cloud estate (AWS) and drive infrastructure optimisation and automation around the management of databases. 2. Responsible for the creation and management of all database provisioning scripts (Oracle RDS, Aurora, Redshift, Hadoop/Cloudera) 3. Responsible for deep technical troubleshooting of database issues in the cloud 4. Support and manage existing Linux server estate Where the Work Takes Place 12 Endeavour Square, Stratford, London E20 1JN Early Market Engagement Working Arrangements 5 days in the office. A week's on-call duties (rota based) will be paid an additional 6th day. Work Location 12 Endeavour Square, Stratford, London E20 1JN Security Clearance SC cleared, or willing to undergo clearance procedure while on site Additional T&Cs Skills & Experience 3+ years proven RedHat Enterprise Linux experience, or RHCE certified RHEL7 - Provide specific examples 3+ years proven experience supporting enterprise AWS environments. (Architect, Design, Provision, Setup Network Monitoring) AWS DevOps/SysOps certified 3+ years hands on experience with Chef/Ansible/Puppet scripting - Provide specific examples 2+ years proven experience in a DevOps DBA related role - Reflected in work history 2+ years experience building and managing Cloudera deployments (or on-premise Hadoop clusters) 2+ years experience scripting the build and management of AWS RDS - Provide specific examples 2+ years experience of hand crafting ETLs in Python (or other language) - Provide specific examples 3+ years of building and managing Oracle DB technologies (e.g. RAC) - Provide specific Experience with security hardening of Oracle/Hadoop databases - Provide specific examples Background as a DBA with proven experience of database management (e.g. troubleshoot database performance issues) Work history alignment to above criteria (CV to be submitted to the FCA upon request) - No response required Nice to Haves 2+ years experience using dev tools (Git, Jenkins, Nexus) - Provide specific examples 2+ years experience using monitoring tools (Splunk, DataDog, Qualys) No. of Specialists to Evaluate 10 Cultural Fit Criteria Willing to take ownership of incidents, not only resolve them, but to prevent incidents in the future Work as part of a team within our organisation and with other suppliers Knowledge share and provide on the job training to your colleagues Collaborative and communicate to colleagues with respect Positive attitude and supportive of a no-blame culture where the personal drive is all about continuous improvement Assessment Method Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 70% Cultural fit 10% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers Budget range £875 per day (ex vat) - outside ir35