L3 Database Administration - 12 months - Glasgow (Hybrid)

L3 Database Administration - 12 months - Glasgow (Hybrid) Contracting role based in Glasgow (Hybrid, 3 days in office) for a 12-month engagement within the financial services sector. You will provide expert-level database administration across Snowflake, Greenplum, and PostgreSQL environments, covering performance tuning, data migrations, backup and recovery, security, and automation - supporting a leading global financial institution. Key Responsibilities: Administer and maintain PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and Greenplum databases across provisioning, upgrades, and day-to-day operations Manage Greenplum data migrations using gpcopy, minimising downtime and data loss, and leverage gpload, pxf, and GP Spark for efficient data loading and integration Manage database bloat and utilise GPTEXT for troubleshooting complex Greenplum issues, leveraging statistics for performance optimisation Design and manage Snowflake architecture including data lakes, data structures, roles, schemas, and databases What You Will Ideally Bring: Extensive hands-on DBA experience across PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and Greenplum - essential Strong SQL skills including complex query writing and performance tuning across Snowflake and PostgreSQL Proven expertise in Patroni for HADR and streaming replication Solid Scripting ability in Shell, Python, and/or Ansible for database automation Experience with Greenplum utilities - gpload, pxf, GP Spark, gpcopy, and GPTEXT Knowledge of ETL processes and data ingestion ..... full job details .....