Senior Infrastructure & Database Engineer

The Opportunity  

The Rimes Technologies Infrastructure Team is the very heart of the Technology Organization, its primary objectives to ensure that the Technology in use by Rimes customers is innovative, reliable, performant, scalable and secure. Delivering world class Customer experience for our both External and Internal users to the Rimes Corporation.   

We operate global services, our teams are both passionate and committed to the demands of our customers ensuring that we are both innovative and proactive in delivering the technology and mission critical data within SLA. Rimes delivers its technology from both our own datacenter and the Cloud.  

We are currently recruiting for a Senior infrastructure & Cloud Engineer to join our global Technology team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established firm with a global presence and significant growth potential.  

As a Senior Infrastructure & Database Engineer, you will: 

• Act as technical lead for infrastructure and cloud projects, owning delivery from planning through to implementation 
• Own and support SQL and database platforms, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability across production environments 
• Drive architectural decision-making within the infrastructure team, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned to best practices 
• Build, configure, and maintain infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and on-premise environments 
• Support and optimise VMware-based platforms, including compute, storage, and associated services 
• Lead incident response for complex issues, acting as an escalation point and driving root cause analysis 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (development, data) to deliver reliable and high-performing platform services  
• Accurately track and update work in Jira and Tempo, ensuring visibility of progress, discovered work, and blockers 

Key Requirements:

• Strong Understanding supporting SQL environments and data platform infrastructure 
• Strong experience supporting hybrid infrastructure environments (cloud and on-premise) 
• Hands-on expertise with Microsoft Azure, including core infrastructure services 
• In-depth experience of VMware virtualisation and enterprise infrastructure platforms 
• Strong understanding of Windows Server and core services  
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code 
• Proven experience leading technical projects and leading architectural decisions 

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with automation tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible) 
• AWS exposure 
• Databricks or data-platform adjacent experience 
• Relevant certifications (Azure, VMware, Networking) 

What We Offer:

• 28 days of annual leave
• AXA Gym Membership Discount
• Healthshield Cashback plan
• Healthshield Perks platform (Breeze)
• MetLife Afterlife Support  
• Metalife GP 24 hour virtual GP service
• Annual ‘purchase holiday’ scheme
• Chubbs Travel Insurance 

Compensation: Competitive pay and bonus eligibility 

Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment