Senior Infrastructure & Database Engineer

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.

• 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 

• 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 

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