Database Engineer Fixed Term - Basingstoke, United Kingdom - Sovereign Housing Association

Sovereign Housing Association

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Basingstoke, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Sovereign's ambitious Corporate Plan identifies the important role that data, digital and technology plays in our future success.

Sovereign's CIO function will enable us to leverage the investments we have already made and embrace new technology frontiersto create a modern, digitally connected business; one that delivers maximum impact and value for our customers and people.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced
Database Engineer to join Sovereign on a
Fixed Term basis for 12 months.

You'll be based from our head office in Basingstoke, combining home and office working to ensure a positive work / life balance.

The Role

As a
Database Engineer, you'll be responsible for the management, design, installation, monitoring, maintenance and performance tuning of production and test databases.

Main responsibilities include:

Developing, implementing, and overseeing database policies and procedures to ensure the integrity and availability of databases and their accompanying software
Being accountable for the support, maintenance, issue investigation and resolution, as well as documentation, of all the databases, including data standards, procedures, and definitions for the data dictionary
Responsibility for establishing the needs of users and monitoring of access and security
Accountability for ensuring that all backup and recovery processes are validated, understood, documented, and tested regularly
Performing routine database maintenance tasks, such as: available space checks, inspection of invalid objects and all alerts, checking of consistency, contention and performance issues and validating routine exports of data

What you'll need
You should have previous experience working as an IT Database Engineer or Database Administrator

You'll also need:

Experience of issue investigation and resolution
Ability to understand and create documentation for Microsoft and Cloud databases
Experience of backup and recovery processes, understanding how they are validated, understood, documented, and tested regularly whilst maintaining all data retention and archiving processes
Strong communication skills and the ability to build credible stakeholder relationships
Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to effectively prioritise multiple tasks

Your benefits
We have some great benefits on offer at Sovereign, including:

£450 flex-pot annually, discounted shopping & cycling scheme
25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
Company pension scheme matched up to 12%, life cover at 4x your salary
Flexible working we're committed to giving people flexibility as widely as possible
Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance & critical illness cover

We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at Sovereign.

Take a look at our careers site to learn more about us and our values.

It's an exciting time to be joining Sovereign as we continue through our transformation journey and work towards achieving the goals in our ambitious corporate plans.

If you're looking for a new opportunity, then we'd love to hear from you