# Lead Cloud DBA (Database Engineer)

**Company**: London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
**Location**: Paris
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a skilled Lead Cloud Database Engineer to join the LCH SA Infrastructure & Cloud Team, which provides technical resources to Post Trade Business Services (a division of LSEG).

As a Lead Cloud DBA, you will play a vital role in designing, deploying, and maintaining secure, scalable, and highly available database systems. You will serve as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for all database-related subjects, manage a growing team of database engineers, and collaborate with development teams, operations, and partners to ensure efficient performance and availability of our critical environments.

**Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:**

- Manage a growing team in charge of database management

- Implement and manage cloud-based database systems, ensuring secure and efficient access control

- Develop, manage, and optimize database policies and procedures to ensure compliance with ANSSI standards and other security standards

- Serve as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for all database-related subjects, coordinating with various teams to address security concerns

- Conduct regular security audits and vulnerability assessments to identify and address potential weaknesses in database systems

- Design, implement, and regularly validate Disaster Recovery (DR), backup, and recovery strategies for database platforms

- Manage database lifecycle operations, including patching, upgrades, replication, and migration activities

- Develop and maintain incident response plans to quickly address and mitigate security breaches related to databases

- Work closely with IT and security teams to align database operations with organizational goals

- Ensure compliance with cybersecurity regulations and best practices

- Provide mentorship to team members on database best practices and security measures

- Maintain database services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health

- Lead sustainable and efficient incident response for database-related issues

- Scale database systems sustainably through automation

- Write highly optimized and accurate code for database solutions

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

- At least 8 years of experience in managing and maintaining database infrastructure in regulated and/or highly available environments

- Expertise in Oracle Enterprise, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases

- Proven experience with database migration projects, including planning, execution, and troubleshooting

- Advanced experience in cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google) for at least 3 years

- Expertise in scripting languages (Python, Bash) and automation/configuration management tools (Ansible) for at least 3 years

- Experience with VMware technology is advantageous

- Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) is advantageous

- Experience operating in a regulated environment with specific security constraints (at least 2 years)

- Experience in systems monitoring and capacity management (at least 5 years)

## Skills

### Required
- Oracle Enterprise
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google)
- Scripting languages (Python, Bash)
- Automation/configuration management tools (Ansible)
- Database migration
- Disaster Recovery
- Backup and recovery
- Cybersecurity regulations and best practices

### Nice to have
- VMware technology
- Containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

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