Graduate Database Administrator

Our client is a leading supplier of global financial trading software. The company has offices in New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong with development centres located in each major region. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is globally renowned for its financial software products. Their applications are sold in all of the world's major financial centres to top-tier investment banks.

When combined with the implementation skills of more than 150 experienced specialists, the company's trading platform has become the natural choice for the majority of the world's top tier investment banks.

Joining this firm as a Graduate Database Administrator you will be responsible for providing specialist support for multiple Sybase servers run as part of the client's Hosted environment. The role involves working closely with other employees and their customers in order to provide an effective and high quality technical support service.

A key function of this role requires the successful candidate to complete out of hours maintenance tasks. Typically this involves 4-6 hours one Saturday in every four.

Duties will include:

- Investigating and resolving reported issues
- Communicating updates effectively and promptly to the customer
- Logging, prioritising and keeping issues up to date on the issues tracking system
- Escalating issues to team leaders and management as appropriate
- Getting involved in application system checks, particularly in the morning, with the aim of identifying and resolving issues before they impact their customers.

Requirements:

- Computer Science or IT related degree (2.2 or above), or equivalent
- Good grounding in relational database systems, SQL knowledge and UNIX
- Ability to communicate confidently and concisely
- Available to work unsupervised one Saturday in every four to carry out routine maintenance tasks

Desirable:

- Ideally the successful candidate will already have some experience in Transact-SQL, ideally Sybase, on a UNIX platform