System Build Database Engineer
TransUnion
- Leeds
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Building and maintaining optimised and highly available database platforms.
- Building and continuously improving CI/CD Pipelines to ensure databases are deployed and configured using automation technologies.
- Establish consistent standards for ensuring High Availability and Fault Tolerant systems.
- Identify and execute on opportunities for automating relevant processes.
- Troubleshooting data issues, providing consultancy in the area of data growth and ongoing maintenance.
- Proof of Concept work to enhance and support the work of the System Build team.
- Contribute to and evangelise community best practices.
- Establish yourself as the Subject Matter Expert for the Product area you are embedded within.
- Ensuring that systems are compliant (SOX, PCI etc.).
- Manage own workload.
- Held a DBA role for five or more years working with SQL Server (2014, 2017, 2019, 2022)
- Experience with SQL Server migrations and upgrades.
- Advanced use of T-SQL (stored procedures, SQL Agent Jobs, Deployment automation)
- Experience of High Availability / Disaster Recovery technologies (Mirroring, Always On Availability Groups)
- Experience of Replication (especially transactional with centralised distribution)
- Proven experience of working with sensitive data in a secure manner.
- Solid understanding of DevOps, Agile, Scrum, Kanban processes and methodologies
- Familiarity with use of source control, especially around database projects (including branching, workflow, peer reviews etc.)
- Good technical understanding of TFS/Azure DevOps Server and Octopus Deploy.
- Basic level of PowerShell scripting.
- Excellent troubleshooting/fault resolution skills.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Willingness to learn and embrace industry developments and practices from both a Development and Operations background.
- Held a DBA role for two or more years working with a range of Azure/AWS hosted Database technologies (Azure SQL Database / Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Dynamo DB)
- Good knowledge of OLAP and SSIS.
- Familiarity with either Octopus Deploy, TFS/Azure DevOps Server.
- Monitoring toolsets (Splunk, Foglight etc.)
- Agile, Scrum, Kanban processes and methodologies
- Advanced PowerShell
- Any recent Microsoft SQL Certification
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Database Specialty
At TransUnion, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all individual’s talents and perspectives are valued. When you apply for a position with us, you’re not just joining a team, you’re becoming part of a community that celebrates differences and embraces equality. We understand that everyone has different needs, which is why we offer a range of reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to help you through the application process or to attend an interview with us by contactingInterview & Hiring ProcessMost of our recruitment processes are virtual, so you’ll get to know our hiring managers and teams over the phone and through video. If we need you to attend a physical in person interview your recruiter will inform you of this.We do not accept any unsolicited CV’s from recruitment agencies. If you are a recruitment agency on our PSL our talent team will contact you directly should we require any assistance.#LI-HybridTransUnion Job TitleEngineer, Development Ops