MSSQL & Oracle DBA/Senior Software Engineer

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If you re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Software Engineer.

In this role, you will:
1. Database Administration & Performance Optimization
Install, configure, and maintain SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB databases. Support DevOps teams in monitoring and optimizing query performance, indexing, and execution plans. Implement high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions. Manage database backups, restores, and recovery strategies. Identify any issues that may arise to delivery risk, formulate preventive actions or corrective measures and timely escalate major project risks and issues to management. Implementing changes in production servers in tight schedule with utmost quality. 2. Infrastructure Management Collaborate with architects, developers, project managers to deliver suitable infrastructure solution which can cope with the business need. Automate database provisioning, scaling, and maintenance using PowerShell, Python, or Terraform. Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate databases into CI/CD pipelines. Optimize storage, memory, and compute resources for database servers. Weekend/overnight/production support work may be required according to project release, vulnerability patching schedule and Live Drill Production support 3. Security & Compliance Enforce database security policies (TDE, RBAC, auditing, encryption). Apply security patches to mitigate vulnerabilities. Ensure compliance with GDPR, SOX, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS regulations. 4. Monitoring & Troubleshooting Set up database monitoring tools. Troubleshoot performance issues, deadlocks, and connectivity problems. Maintain capacity planning for future growth.