Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. Aker builds and operates ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations.
In 2022, Aker Systems was proud to win the ‘Scale up Business of the Year’ award by the British Business Excellence Awards. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a ‘One to Watch’ on the Sunday Times Tech Track and was also recognised at the Thames Valley Tech Awards 2020; winning the Thames Valley Tech Company of the year, the Emerging Tech Company and High Growth Tech Business categories.
Most recently in September 2021, we were successfully acquired by a new investor (Abry Partners) who have a deep industry expertise in our field to support us in the next part of our journey and as we continue to grow and diversify as a business.
We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, and supportive place for you do your very best work.
A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years.
This is not a team leading position. We are looking for an experienced DBA who is leading in their technical abilities.
Duties & Responsibilities
We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you, and feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with. You will be working in a growing and experienced team consisting of DBAs, DevOps engineers, software engineers, architects and other SMEs, in addition to agile delivery and project managers. This is an ideal career opportunity for someone who enjoys working within a collaborative, autonomous environment, whilst applying their wealth of experience
- Responsible for the reliability and performance aspects of multiple AWS Production and Non-Production databases (Oracle/PostgreSQL/Redshift) supporting critical applications
- Work on observability of relevant database metrics aligned to service SLAs
- Provide database expertise to engineering teams (database migrations, queries and performance optimisations).
- Securing databases platforms and individual databases based on requirements and implementation
- Automation of database platform and help engineering focus on delivering working application services
- Identify parts of the data platforms that do not scale, provide immediate resolutions and drives long term resolution of these incidents
- Proactively work on the efficiency and capacity planning to set clear requirements and reduce the system resources usage to make cheaper to run
- Drive root cause analysis of incidents and draw on the experience of other members of the team to determine how to better respond to or avoid incidents in future
Core Competencies
The successful candidate will have a bachelor’s degree or greater in Computer Science or a related field. An equivalent of at least 5 years of working experience as Senior DBA in on prem/AWS.
You will have demonstrated the following competencies to the proficiency level appropriate to the seniority of the role:
- Expert in managing multi-terabyte Redshift, PostgreSQL & Oracle on prem/RDS databases.
- Proficient knowledge of SQL, bash scripting and Python
- Designing and implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery
- Maintaining, configuring automated alerting, and monitoring the database platforms
- Performance tuning, indexing, partitioning.
- Employ the best practices for change and release management by ensuring only rock-solid code goes to the production
- Good to have DevOps tools working knowledge like Git, Terraform, Ansible etc.
- BAU production support - Advanced Diagnostics and trouble shooting skills with an outcome of finding root cause and prompt fix for high priority incidents
Aker Systems Attributes
At Aker we work as a team, we are collaborative, hardworking, open, and delivery obsessed. There is no blame culture here: try things, and take responsibility for the outcomes. You are always part of the wider Aker. We help out our colleagues and take pride in successfully achieving difficult tasks. We run towards problems and help solve them. Communicate always, do so accurately and in a timely fashion.
In return, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), Company Paid Medical Insurance, Life Assurance (4x times basic salary), Pension scheme, Perks at Work, Cycle Scheme, Tech Scheme and Season Ticket Loan. Plus, a list of voluntary benefits including Dental Insurance, Critical illness cover, Virtual GP.
Equal Opportunities
Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.
What We Do
We move highly sensitive data into the public cloud. Our products enable the transformation of systems into ultra-secure, scalable and powerful cloud based environments. We build and manage enterprise scale data infrastructures which deliver data securely, at speed wherever it is required.
