Job Purpose and primary objectives:
Responsible for managing, maintaining, enhancing and strategic development of all database related technologies in EMEA as well as internationally for the Securities Business.
The Database Operations team are responsible for providing 24x7 RDBMS and MSSQL database support in EMEA and internationally for the Securities Business.
Key responsibilities (please specify if the position is an individual one or part of a team):
Responsible for ensuring daily health and compliance checks are performed for all Production systems.
Responsible for ensuring database systems are backed up successfully and any issues are promptly resolved.
Responsible for ensuring database jobs are running successfully and any issues are promptly resolved.
Responsible for ensuring database monitoring alerts are detected promptly and satisfactorily resolved.
Responsible for ensuring sufficient capacity is available to accommodate projected BAU growth.
Responsible for ensuring all emails sent to the team distribution list are responded to in a timely manner.
Responsible for ensuring problem tickets and service requests are handled with efficiency and the customer in mind.
Responsible for ensuring database platforms are highly available, reliable, secure and performant.
Responsible for database installation, configuration, tuning, upgrades, and general maintenance activities.
Responsible for providing technical support to application support and development teams.
Responsible for providing consultancy to application support and development teams on database and systems design.
Responsible for executing disaster recovery procedures when necessary.
Responsible for applying database security updates as per defined policies.
Responsible for reviewing and subsequently remediating items detected by Qualys vulnerability and compliance scans.
Responsible for ensuring that all project/investment related workloads are delivered accor