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Job Category

Tech

Division

Ingenuity Technology

Location

UK, Manchester

Job Type

Full-time

About THG Ingenuity

THG Ingenuity is a fully integrated digital commerce ecosystem, designed to power brands without limits. Our global end-to-end tech platform is comprised of three products: THG Commerce, THG Studios, THG Fulfilment. 

Each represents a single, unified solution, overcoming challenges and taking brands direct-to-consumer. Our client portfolio includes globally recognised brands such as Coca-Cola, Nestle, Elemis, Homebase, and Proctor & Gamble.

What will I be doing?

As a Senior Database Administrator within the DBA team you will:

  • Lead the creation and continual improvement of automation tools to support the DBA team in the administration of our growing estate of SQL Server and PostgreSQL estate  
  • Ensure all production servers are properly secured and patches are applied in a timely fashion
  • Proactively identify performance problems and work with development teams to implement improvements to application performance
  • Provide guidance in the creation and modification of standards and procedures
  • Engineering and defining builds on a Database during development and testing
  • Providing day-to-day support within the Engineering infrastructure departments and working coherently with other development teams
  • Strong understanding of DR and monitoring standards
  • Owning and regulating current Database infrastructure
  • Designing and maintaining a multi-site SQL environment
  • Understanding and maintaining database security

 

What skills and experience would I need?

  • Administration of SQL Server and PostgreSQL
  • Enterprise monitoring tools such as SQL Monitor, Prometheus, Graphite, etc…
  • Source Control for tracking and managing changes to DBA tooling
  • Knowledge of automation languages (PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, Terraform)
  • Familiarity with High Availability/Disaster Recovery solutions
  • The ability to update, back-up and recover databases via
  • Strong experience of Transactional Replication
  • Installation and configuration of SQL server
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Willing and eager to expand your skill set in other database technologies

 

Desirable Skills

  • Implementation and management of Always on groups
  • Windows Server and failover clusters
  • Network experience
  • We leverage Google BigQuery to provide read-only data replicas for reporting and ML (Machine Learning) model training. Increasing use requires us to manage this in-line with the rest of our data estate.

What's in it for me?

Career Development

  • Access bespoke development programmes that have been designed and developed by our in-house L&D team.
  • Continued development through our upskilling programme that is delivered in partnership with an industry-leading training provider.

Enhanced Leave

  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
  • Don’t want to work on your birthday? We don’t either! Enjoy your day off on us!
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, depending on length of service.
  • Up to 10 days compassionate leave.
  • Buy back up to 3 days each year.
  • Unlock 2 days volunteer leave after 12-months.

Wellbeing Support

  • Access face-to-face and virtual appointments with our in-house GP.
  • Access our in-house CBT therapist.
  • Access our 247 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which is provided by Bupa.
  • State-of-the-art on-site gym.
  • Access to our on-site physio.

Other Perks

  • Save up to 12% on the cost of personal tech through our salary sacrifice scheme.
  • Subsidised bus pass from Manchester City Centre to our ICON office.
  • Up to 50% staff discount on THG brands.
  • On-site staff shop.
  • Access to on-site barber.
  • Know someone who would be perfect for THG? Refer them and get up to £1000 when they pass their probation.
  • Anniversary gifts when you hit 5 and 10 years of service.

THG Ingenuity is proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you are invited to interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability.

THG Ingenuity is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Because of the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it sometimes takes us time to review and consider them all. We endeavour to respond to every application we receive within 14 days. If you haven't heard from us within that time frame or should you have any specific questions about this or other applications for positions at THG Ingenuity please contact one of our Talent team to discuss further.

 

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