Junior Development Database Administrator

Who we are looking for

A Junior Development Database Administrator, who will join a tried and tested development programme, with targeted study and exercises to enhance their current skills.

The Development Database Administration team are specialists in the transformation, movement and storage of data across many exciting technologies. They produce Business critical data systems, pushing databases to their limits.

You will be a performance expert as every millisecond counts in the running of our website. The team offers architectural guidance to development teams in the field of data, as well as help manage the quality of database work across the Business. Working in a hugely demanding data environment, with many thousands of transactions taking place every second, the opportunities to develop as a data professional with us are second to none.

You will have exposure to a variety of database and programming languages such as SQL Server, Google Cloud databases including Spanner, Alloy, Big Query, Golang, Kafka, Java, KSQLDB and others.

This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid working from home policy.

Preferred skills and experience

• Enthusiastic individual, keen to work in a technically challenging environment.
• Good communicator.
• Keen interest in data.
• Excellent academic background including a minimum 2.1 Honours Degree in a Science, Engineering, Mathematics or IT related discipline and solid A Levels.
• Logical thinker.
• Creative problem solver.

Main Responsibilities

• Developing the skills you need to succeed as a data professional within the team, focusing on creating low latency, highly available and scalable solutions.
• Supporting applications in their Kafka journey from design through to implementation.
• Working on pre-defined and scoped work items with guidance and mentorship, ensuring that you develop within a highly technical role.
• Supporting the day to day running of high-performance data systems.
• Working within operational and coding guidelines.
• Collaborating with other development teams.
• Contributing ideas to improve data systems.

The benefits of working with us

• Bonus Schemes
• Company Pension
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Discount Programme
• Eye Care
• Income Protection
• Life Assurance
• Life Events and Long Service