About the job

Who we are

Neptune North is a newly created joint venture between Oliver Wyman, a global leader in management consulting and part of the NYSE listed Marsh McLennan, and Rokos Capital Management (RCM), a global alternative investment fund manager.

We pride ourselves on employing and developing only the very best talent in the North East, ensuring unparalleled quality and expertise in everything we do so that we consistently surpass expectations.

If you’re keen to work in a demanding and fast-paced role, are passionate about technology and solving complex problems, then Neptune North could be the right place for you.

We do everything from our home in the heart of Newcastle City Centre, where we are building a team of exceptional people and an intellectually stimulating environment from which to work.

Our DBA Team

Wide and inquisitive interest in general technology and ability to turn your hand to many different technical problems

Passionate about the robust nature of the technologies under your ownership and will take pride in delivering productivity, quality, and reliability

A good understanding of ITIL processes, in particular a structured approach to continuous improvement of the production environment

Respect of timelines and an “in built” urgency to resolve issues in a timely way

Great team players with DevOps, Support, QA and Dev colleagues, never blaming others when problems arise

Form strong, honest and mutually respectful relationships with the key client, visiting their London office as required

Have the ability to learn new technologies and expand the role and your skills

On-call is expected once every 4 weeks, overnight/ weekend and only for production issues

Role Requirements

• Maintain on-premise and Azure SQL databases (upgrades, high availability backup administration, monitoring, optimisations of DB servers, optimisations of SQL/ procedures)
• Work with Cloud Azure SQL Server, Data Lake and related cloud data storage technologies
• Strong MS SQL knowledge with the ability to interrogate data stores and schema, investigate the results, and provide solutions to improve performance
• Work with and challenge developers, and support business to improve the use of SQL Server via better schemas, performant stored procedures/ views/ functions
• A minimum 2:1 degree obtained in Computer Science, or a related field, ideally from a Russell Group University

Preferred:

• High availability via Always-On and Basic Availability Groups
• Backup/ restore (DB/ transaction logs)
• Powershell – dbatools or SqlServer modules
• Performance optimisation
• SQL Server Maintenance – Agent Jobs, Monitoring
• SQL server configuration
• Partitioning
• SQL snapshots
• Change data capture
• Understanding of SAN arrays – Nimble preferred, PURE or others acceptable
• Financial services experience a bonus, but not essential

Why join us?

• You can have an impact from day one – we empower and trust our colleagues to leverage their skillsets
• Work on a wide variety of projects alongside exceptionally talented people, often closely related to world events and trends
• Deliver demonstrable business value working hand-in-hand with the customer
• Learn from industry experts on how financial markets and world economies work
• Ownership of technical products and projects – our colleagues actively engage with a wide range of business functions to leverage their knowledge and exposure
• Exercising judgement and acumen to understand the true business need beyond the stated requirements
• Challenging current systems and processes to achieve common goals through technical excellence and innovation

Our Culture

An exciting aspect of joining a newly created business at this stage is the opportunity to be in from the start and help define the culture.

There are things we won’t compromise on though:

• We are looking for exceptional talent with excellent communication skills
• Collaboration is key, both internally and with our clients. We believe we do our best work when we are together and working hand in hand with business users
• Curiosity is something we embrace and value highly
• We want people who are positive and passionate, have proven problem solving capabilities, can work quickly to find solutions to complex challenges and unlock opportunities
• People need to be able to take ownership and be trusted to deliver, going the extra mile when needed
• We want people who are highly motivated and have a high desire to learn