Senior Data Engineer
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Data Engineer for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £494/day Outside IR35. This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.
Responsibilities:
– Major version upgrade of the current on-prem MongoDB Estate
– Major version upgrades to multiple on-prem Postgres databases
– Support development teams with on-prem migrations to AWS RDS
– Help migrate our current on-prem Grafana instance to containers deployed on OpenShift
– Support the Database team with ongoing BAU tasks such as upgrading, patching, automation, and monitoring improvements etc.
– Help fixing the Support Requests raised by our stakeholders.
– Collaborate with colleagues, to define, refine and prioritise the database roadmap and backlog.
– Actively participate in all team events, leading where specialist knowledge is required and supporting the team to improve their process through inspection and adaptation.
– Engage with the wider organisational communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, technique, and experience.
– Knowledge share with other team members as necessary.
– Developing appropriate documentation and artefacts, e.g., data standards, local work instructions.
– Support updating, installing, and testing new versions and upgrades to databases.
– Troubleshooting and resolving database related issues.
– Ensure existing on-prem estate continues to meet service standards until migration to AWS has been completed.
– Ensure CDK constructs embody agreed standards for resiliency, security, and backups, and meet agreed standards for quality.
– Support and deliver the disaster recover assurance of digital services, striving towards a sustainable Recovery Time Objective of 2hrs and Recovery Point objective of zero.
Essential Skills:
– MongoDB
– Postgres
– AWS IAM, S3, EC2, RDS
– Ansible
– Typescript
– CDK and AWS Development tools including Cloud Formation
– SQL
– Monitoring solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, Grafana)
– Making excellent quality software with other people.
– Working with business stakeholders, to understand the context and to focus on delivering value.
– Design and implementation of solutions using a service-based and serverless architecture.
– Excellent collaboration, communication, and teamwork skills
– Experience working in the Agile delivery models – such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks.
– Cloud database monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes
– Defining infrastructure-as-code
– Testing of disaster recovery procedures
– Data replication and high-availability technology
Desirable Skills:
– Experience delivering new software that consumes services from a centralised database management team.
– Informix
– Oracle
– OpenSearch
– Serverless (Lambda)
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– Major version upgrade of the current on-prem MongoDB Estate
– Major version upgrades to multiple on-prem Postgres databases
– Support development teams with on-prem migrations to AWS RDS
– Help migrate our current on-prem Grafana instance to containers deployed on OpenShift
– Support the Database team with ongoing BAU tasks such as upgrading, patching, automation, and monitoring improvements etc.
– Help fixing the Support Requests raised by our stakeholders.
– Collaborate with colleagues, to define, refine and prioritise the database roadmap and backlog.
– Actively participate in all team events, leading where specialist knowledge is required and supporting the team to improve their process through inspection and adaptation.
– Engage with the wider organisational communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, technique, and experience.
– Knowledge share with other team members as necessary.
– Developing appropriate documentation and artefacts, e.g., data standards, local work instructions.
– Support updating, installing, and testing new versions and upgrades to databases.
– Troubleshooting and resolving database related issues.
– Ensure existing on-prem estate continues to meet service standards until migration to AWS has been completed.
– Ensure CDK constructs embody agreed standards for resiliency, security, and backups, and meet agreed standards for quality.
– Support and deliver the disaster recover assurance of digital services, striving towards a sustainable Recovery Time Objective of 2hrs and Recovery Point objective of zero.
Essential Skills:
– MongoDB
– Postgres
– AWS IAM, S3, EC2, RDS
– Ansible
– Typescript
– CDK and AWS Development tools including Cloud Formation
– SQL
– Monitoring solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, Grafana)
– Making excellent quality software with other people.
– Working with business stakeholders, to understand the context and to focus on delivering value.
– Design and implementation of solutions using a service-based and serverless architecture.
– Excellent collaboration, communication, and teamwork skills
– Experience working in the Agile delivery models – such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks.
– Cloud database monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes
– Defining infrastructure-as-code
– Testing of disaster recovery procedures
– Data replication and high-availability technology
Desirable Skills:
– Experience delivering new software that consumes services from a centralised database management team.
– Informix
– Oracle
– OpenSearch
– Serverless (Lambda)
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
