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Site Operations Engineer (Data & DBA)
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Dunelm
Site Operations Engineer (Data & DBA)
Multiple locations
NEW
Hybrid
Description
Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
This is a hybrid role based from home and our offices in either London or Leicester.
The Site Operations Engineering (SOE) team is a key part of Dunelm’s Digital function, ensuring the reliability, performance, and observability of our data platform and services. We act as the third-line support function responsible for incident response, problem management, and proactive improvements.
We are at the forefront of cloud adoption, being one of the largest adopters of AWS Serverless in Europe. Our Digital and Data teams are constantly evolving to support the growing demands of our business. We are focused on building scalable, high-performance solutions while ensuring reliability, observability, and operational excellence.
Career Progression
We offer a structured career path within SOE, starting from Junior, progressing through Mid, Senior, and Lead SOE, with opportunities to advance to Principal SOE. This role also provides exposure to database administration, data engineering, and operations, opening opportunities for cross-functional growth.
What You Will Get from Us:
The opportunity to gain hands-on experience with AWS SQS, S3, Snowflake, and DBT.
Access to online training platforms (e.g., PluralSight) and support for AWS certifications.
Work in a collaborative and supportive team, learning from highly skilled engineers.
Exposure to cutting-edge data engineering practices and collaboration with leading experts in the field.
If you are passionate about data reliability, database performance tuning, and continuous learning, we would love to hear from you!
Role tech stack
aws
amazon-sqs
amazon-s3
snowflake
dbt
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Dunelm
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Culture overview
We're here to help our customers create the joy of feeling truly at home. Join us and you'll find our caring and inclusive culture makes this a place you'll feel right at home too. Learn Wherever you work with us and in whatever role, you'll have every opportunity to keep on learning and keep on growing. Thrive We'll take care of you, and make sure your everyday needs are met, so you can focus on doing a great job and being the best version of you. Belong We embrace diversity in all its forms. We'll celebrate the individual you are and value the unique contribution you bring. Colleague Networks All of our colleagues have the opportunity to be part of our four colleague networks. These are Disability & Neurodiversity, LGBTQ+, Gender Equality and Ethnicity & Race. Each network has co-chairs and an exec sponsor who work closely with us to ensure that we are a workplace where everyone feels supported, celebrated, valued and heard. A chance to give something back We're serious about our role in society. Each of our stores is partnered with a local charity and has its own community Facebook page. And we offer our Pausa Cafés for free to local community groups. We're also proud partners of the mental health charities, Mind (UK and Wales), SAMH (Scotland) and Inspire (Northern Ireland). And each year, we'll give you a day's paid leave to support a charity that matters to you. Work your way We have adapted our ways of working to make sure everyone can feel at home wherever they work. For many colleagues at our Head Office in Leicester and our Central London hub that now includes working on a hybrid basis, combining days in the office with time spent working at home or elsewhere across the business.
Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Childcare Vouchers
Flexible Working
Free Parking
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Life Insurance
Pension
Private Healthcare
Share Options
Wellbeing Programme
Office vibe
Birthday Off
City Centre
Hackathons
Office Dog
Open Plan
Social Events
Location
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Leadership
John Gahagan
Chief Technology and Information Officer
Tech overview
Our Tech, Digital and Data teams are transforming literally every aspect of our business – from the way we manage and make use of our data, to the relationships we share with our customers. Already, their impact has been felt across the business, and indeed by our customers. But this is just the start and we know there are bigger opportunities ahead. Check out our tech blog for tales behind our talented teams: https://engineering.dunelm.com/ Keep on growing Join us on the tech side and you'll have access to a huge array of learning and development opportunities, including a variety of internally created workshops and externally accredited courses. We also have a substantial tech-specific budget to fund e-Learning licenses, conference visits, resources, and qualifications, plus dedicated mentors, well-being buddies and a wide range of network groups to support you as you progress.
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Code Reviews
Communication and collaboration
Continuous delivery
Continuous Development
Continuous integration
Infrastructure as code
Mentoring
Micro services
Pair programming
Scrum
Test Driven Development
Unit testing
Company tech stack
javascript
aws-lambda
graphql
react
typescript
jest
nodejs
sql
python
java
Dunelm
Site Operations Engineer (Data & DBA)
Leicester
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