Database Administrator

Role Overview:

Because of a key strategic development and a new exciting business opportunity, we have a requirement for a security-cleared Database Administrator (DBA) based in the UK working at our Farnborough site and remotely.

Leidos has more than 30 years’ experience of developing and running some of the largest government systems in the world. We are currently hiring to expand our UK based technical team who develop and support our services for UK Government.

Being part of the Leidos team is a commitment to push yourself and those around you to do better, constantly adapt and learn new technologies. We’re a passionate team and are committed to developing and growing our staff.

Leidos is a global science and technology solutions leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defence, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

We are looking for and enthusiastic and motivated Database Administrator, with high levels of security clearance, to join our growing team of IT experts in delivering high quality IT services to our government customer.

We love to work with people who have a passion for technology and the possibilities it offers. You will be self-motivated and be able to work autonomously to achieve day-to-day objectives with significant results on project or operational deliverables, whilst also owning a variety of activities ensuring compliance with project milestones and customer KPIs and SLAs. You must be an effective communicator, comfortable directly engaging with customers and colleagues. You will also demonstrate an analytical and systematic approach to technical challenges.

We operate a high paced and exciting collaborative working environment where the work you do is normally customer facing and has demonstrable real world impact. As such we value our staff highly and are committed to training, career development and providing opportunities to progress.

You will be providing enterprise operational database support and maintenance services to a complex range of imagery and geospatial system capabilities in a high availability operational environment. This role is within the live support team and primarily covers the maintenance of MS SQL Server 2016 & PostgreSQL databases in Windows & Linux environments across a multisite enterprise solution and involvement\support where these databases interact or provide services to the wider software solution. This includes the maintenance and updates to Data Models and Data Definition Language as well as responsibility for database integrity.

You will need a thorough understanding of MS SQL Server 2016 and PostgreSQL database products. This is a complex and challenging role that will be highly rewarding, with extensive communication and interfacing requirements with multiple providers, agencies and Customer organisations.

The role also includes providing remote and on-site support. There is also a requirement to provide out-of-hours on-call support from time to time. You will be expected to contribute towards the creation and ongoing maintenance of technical documentation and, while primarily supporting the operational service, also be able to provide material to support change projects if required.

You will be responsible for:

• Delivering a range of database administration tasks, delivered in a ITIL service / sec dev ops environment.
• Ensuring systems remain “evergreen” proactively supporting the services in multiple secure level environments
• Working with delivery teams to onboard new features and functionality pushing to bridge the KT gap within an agile delivery model and ITIL service

WHO DO WE NEED?

We are looking for someone with excellent organisation, communication and leadership skills who has:

• Experience in an ITILv3/v4 support enterprise environment.
• Understanding of SecDevOps and or Agile delivery methodologies
• Excellent ticket/task management practices
• MS SQL Server 2016 & PostgreSQL DBA experience in an Operational Support environment.
• Knowledge of the change and operational release cycle, including Systems Integration, Development and Test.
• Experience of IT architectures and the application of Software/Systems engineering principles within a secure IT environment.
• A history as a proactive ‘self-starter’, able to respond to complex situations with little oversight and asking for support from other technical experts as required.
• Experience with MS SQL Server 2016 support, Windows Server, RHEL and VMWare environments
• Occasional travel to other Leidos and customer sites may be required. 
• Keeping an eye on the technology landscape is essential, too – identification of new and relevant technologies to solve problems and make improvements is part of the job.  We believe innovation is the lifeblood of customer value – we are all catalysts for innovation and improvement and committed to continuous improvement in everything we do.
• To work with our talented team and our customers you would need to be able to achieve a high level of security clearance

Clearance Requirements:

• Clearance to Start SC
• Clearance for Role DV

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What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
•    Contributory Pension Scheme
•    Private Medical Insurance
•    33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
•    Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)