Opportunity: Database Specialist
Salary: £50 - £59.64 per hr (outside IR35)
Location: On site in Aldermaston (5x pw)
Contract Duration: 18 months
We are currently looking for a Database Specialist for our government client. This Database Specialist role is based full time on site in Aldermaston, 5 days per week. The contract for the Database Specialist position is initially for 18-months, offering an hourly rate within the range of £50 to £59.64, operating outside IR35.
Security Clearance: Developed Vetting (DV Clearance)
This role is outside IR35.
Role Profile/Responsibilities:
- Provide database and application support for Oracle / SQL Server databases, applications and tools.
- Deliver a service compliant with the Service Level Agreements and monitor Service Level Agreements to ensure that all supported services continue to operate in line with business requirements.
- Undertake problems investigation with supported services, ensuring that they are diagnosed and resolved in a timely manner.
- Monitor activity and trends against supported services and work with colleagues and customers to initiate regular exercises to optimise database performance.
- Develop and maintain database/application configurations and standards, ensuring that all standards are applied.
- Develop and support database interfaces, to ensure that data is managed and controlled appropriate to the classification of the data.
- Monitor, review and implement database security in-line with company policy and industry best practice.
- Identify and articulate risks associated with processing information within computer systems and networks in relation to supported services.
- Reviewing and applying database product patches, in line with vendor recommendations.
- Undertake the building, cloning and patching of support environments.
- Provide and maintain scripts to automate the monitoring and cloning of environments for quick and effective fault diagnosis.
- Maintain installations, upgrades and maintenance of the database server, applications and tools.
- Monitor database/application storage and growth trends, and initiate capacity management plans for supported services.
- Maintain the backup mechanism.
- Develop and test database recovery plans on a regular basis and initiate recovery procedures when necessary.
- Control and manage database changes or enhancements in line with current Change Control policies.
- The implementation of code releases and configuration changes throughout the system life cycle.
- Review relevant change and custom releases for risk and impact analysis as part of the whole team to ensure a robust and efficient production system.
- Create and maintain system/process documentation.
- Assist other roles such as Developers, Functional Consultants and users with technical issues.
- Ensures that account is taken of any relevant statutory or external regulations, standards and codes of good practice.
- Provide support to project delivery managers to upgrade, develop and implement new systems, applications and services appropriate to the role and to agreed timescales.
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