Senior Infrastructure & Database Engineer

About Rimes

Rimes provides enterprise data management solutions to the global investment community. Driven by our passion for solving the most complex data problems, we provide our clients with investment intelligence that powers more than US$75 trillion in assets under management annually. The world’s leading institutional investors, asset managers and service providers rely on Rimes to help them make better investment decisions using accurate information and industry-leading technology.

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

Only selected candidates will be contacted for interviews. We appreciate your understanding. Thank you for considering a career with us.

Rimes is committed to promote the values of diversity and inclusion throughout the business. Whether it’s through recruitment, retention, career progression or training and development, we are committed to improving opportunities for people regardless of their background or circumstances.

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