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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