Database Infrastructure Engineer
The Company
Komcept Solutions innovate to secure you today and protect your tomorrow.
Vision and Strategy
To provide for the wide range of security needs of organisations. Providing bespoke security solutions, facilitating the evolving and complex needs of our customers and our commitment to ensure continuous and comprehensive support.
We constantly innovate and evolve our own products with a rapid development strategy including continual research and product improvement. We develop strategic relationships with key partners and continue to learn from and adapt to their operational requirements.
Company Culture
Our success is built upon the efforts of our employees. We value our employee family who help build our innovative, market-leading products and services, and deliver robust, personal support to our clients. They do this through collaboration with one-another and with our customers, in an open and friendly workplace. We appreciate initiative and autonomy whilst encouraging staff to work together in order to support each other. We have a fail-fast approach to realise any show-stopping tasks early, and learn from this to improve and evolve development cycles.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a database administrator to maintain and performance tune databases that run internally and on remote customer systems. You’ll receive a competitive salary and have regular personal development interaction with your manager and be encouraged to improve your range of skills through mentoring as well as training both in house and third party. Exceptional input and actions are recognised and rewarded in this company such as our Class-A share reward scheme.
Benefits
We offer 33 days’ annual leave (including Bank Holiday allowance) per year, increasing to 38 days after 5 years’ service; flexible working; travel insurance to cover leisure trips for you and your partner & children; a 4% employer contribution to your pension when you deposit an equal amount; and a share scheme that allows us to recognise employees with a good attitude that put in extra effort, free parking.
Job Description
This role will involve occasional foreign travel to customer sites, and be based in our offices in the UK, near Northampton.
The role includes building and maintaining IT infrastructure on customer platforms and provide support to our internal IT systems. This includes Microsoft MSSQL and MySQL DBMS, virtualisation as well as general IT infrastructure. All systems need to run 24/7 and will adopt any forms of high availability and replication (potentially both) to aid that goal. Monitoring backups is as equally important to the recovery of running systems.
There is ample opportunity to grow and progress through the business, learning new skills and diversifying in role. The role will suit someone with a broad knowledge of databases and other aspects of IT, including hardware, software and OS.
The ideal candidate will be organised and pragmatic, as the role is sometimes customer facing, the candidate should have clear communication skills and be presentable. The role is 100% office based and due to location would be preferable for the candidate to hold a full driving license.
Essential
- Strong Microsoft SQL Server experience (Availability Groups and Replication)
- Strong MySQL Experience (Galera Clusters)
- Database design and performance tuning.
- Firewall, Networking and VPN configuration and maintenance
- Virtualisation, vCenter, vSphere
Desirable
- Neo4J Graph Database
- Cloud Technologies with an emphasis on security and stability
- Operating systems including Linux, Ubuntu
- Active Directory administration
- IP cameras, base stations, VOIP phones
- Internet of Things protocols, (MQTT and/or LoRaWAN)
- Hardware (servers, desktops, laptops, mobile phones)
- Delivering virtual and face to face training to users of varying technical abilities
Should be confident with documenting methods for undertaking tasks.
Role is permanent, expected salary £45-55k