Job ID: EBI_01188
Job date: 2018-04-18
End Date: 2018-05-20
Company : EMBL Country : United Kingdom Role : Other
Job date: 2018-04-18
End Date: 2018-05-20
Company : EMBL Country : United Kingdom Role : Other
Job Description:
We are seeking a Database Administrator to join the Database Team of EMBL-EBI which provides central database administration and engineering support to the Services and Research groups at EMBL-EBI. The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) offers a rare opportunity to acquire professional experience in an international scientific environment. The Database Team provides day-to-day Database Administration support for the production, development, test database environments across the supported database technologies MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and MS SQL Server including database performance tuning and query optimization. The large central database environment is deployed over a Virtual Infrastructure and incorporates multi-Terabyte databases across geographically distributed production, public-facing and disaster recovery data centres. On a day to day basis our Database team provides:
Additional Info:
Location: Hinxton Salary: £30,624 to £34,260 Grade 5 or 6 Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract Placed on: 18th April 2018 Closes: 20th May 2018 Job Ref: EBI_01188 At EMBL-EBI, we help scientists realise the potential of ‘big data’ in biology by enabling them to exploit complex information to make discoveries that benefit mankind. Working for EMBL-EBI gives you an opportunity to apply your skills and energy for the greater good. We are located on the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK, and our 600 staff are engineers, technicians, scientists and other experts from all over the world. [Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
We are seeking a Database Administrator to join the Database Team of EMBL-EBI which provides central database administration and engineering support to the Services and Research groups at EMBL-EBI. The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) offers a rare opportunity to acquire professional experience in an international scientific environment. The Database Team provides day-to-day Database Administration support for the production, development, test database environments across the supported database technologies MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and MS SQL Server including database performance tuning and query optimization. The large central database environment is deployed over a Virtual Infrastructure and incorporates multi-Terabyte databases across geographically distributed production, public-facing and disaster recovery data centres. On a day to day basis our Database team provides:
- Database software installation and configuration;
- High availability;
- Data replication solutions;
- Automation via scripting, configuration management, processes and standards;
- Back-up and recovery;
- Disaster recovery;
- Performance tuning;
- Query Optimization;
- Performance and errors troubleshooting;
- Data provisioning
- Monitoring, reporting and keeping online documentation up-to-date;
- Support the database and application developers from the EMBL-EBI service teams and collaborate with the IT systems administrators of the EMBL-EBI IT infrastructure.
- You will join us with existing skills and experience in at least two among Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server in order to conduct the activities described above. We will train you as appropriate.
Qualifications and Experience
You will have a degree in Computer Science or an equivalent discipline and will be able to demonstrate proven experience in a role with similar responsibilities. Required skills and experience:- Supporting production systems in an academic or commercial setting within a medium to large sized heterogeneous IT environment.
- Administration, configuration and tuning of at least two among Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server.
- Experience with one or more among SQL, Python, Shell.
- Experience and operation of databases on Linux RedHat or equivalent within a virtualised environment.
- You will have a solid understanding of enterprise IT Infrastructures (including compute, storage and networking).
- The ability to work within a team, good interpersonal and communication skills and excellent working knowledge of English are required to succeed in this job. You will also need to have a service-oriented attitude, be well-organised and able to work to deadlines.
- Experience with multi-Terabyte databases
- Experience with one or more among Nagios, PMM, Puppet, Foreman
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Additional Info:
Location: Hinxton Salary: £30,624 to £34,260 Grade 5 or 6 Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract Placed on: 18th April 2018 Closes: 20th May 2018 Job Ref: EBI_01188 At EMBL-EBI, we help scientists realise the potential of ‘big data’ in biology by enabling them to exploit complex information to make discoveries that benefit mankind. Working for EMBL-EBI gives you an opportunity to apply your skills and energy for the greater good. We are located on the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK, and our 600 staff are engineers, technicians, scientists and other experts from all over the world. [Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]