Senior SQL Database Administrator

Senior SQL Database Administrator

Job description

Job Description

You'll be working, collaborating, and socialising with your colleagues across all three of our offices in the UK, Bulgaria, and India.

There will be a need to work outside of the normal office hours occasionally, but this can be remotely (from your home) and of course, this time will be recognised and rewarded.

As a Senior SQL Database Administrator, you will provide ongoing delivery and support for well-recognised clients worldwide.

You will be part of the DBA support team, that will deliver a first-class service to our clients. You will be communicating regularly with technical, applications and operational colleagues to ensure database integrity, security, and performance.







Your responsibilities will include :

- Establishing the access needs and security requirements of users and managing them.
- Identifying SQL database / instance performance optimisations.
- Performing SQL Server patching and support customer release deployment activities and upgrades.
- Writing database & client documentation, including procedures and definitions for customer environment specifics.
- Monitoring the customer environments via our monitoring tools and able to identify & troubleshoot the associated alerts.
- Ensuring that database maintenance procedures are functioning correctly.
- Carrying out capacity planning and provisioning of SQL Server instances or databases.
- Identifying cost optimisation opportunities for clients.
- Managing the HA and DR aspects of SQL Server.
- Providing custom solutions to clients and identifying the client needs.
- Acting as level 3 support for the DBA team and available for 24x7 coverage.

Qualifications

SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS







- 5+ years of experience working in similar roles.
- Experience working in SQL Server Production Environments and managing critical situations.
- Experience working with SQL Server FCI & AlwaysON , troubleshooting & configuration.
- Experience and troubleshooting backups, restore and database maintenance activities.
- Familiarity with T-SQL scripting.
- Understanding query tuning concepts and identifying performance bottlenecks.
- Understanding the SQL Server setup, storage and best practices.
- Knowledge of the SQL Server data structures.
- Knowledge of the SQL Server architecture and database design / layout.
- Strong written and spoken English.
- Problem-solving skills and ability to think analytically.
- Willingness to learn based on feedback.






- Ability to identify opportunities and issues in SQL Server environments.
- Ability to work independently and as a part of a team.
- Ability to help plan tasks for less experienced team members and to support and mentor

Additional Information

Nice to Have :

- Experience working with Azure SQL Databases and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
- Knowledge of the Azure Infrastructure & Azure Backup Services.
- Basic concepts of Azure DevOps.
- Experience of other databases including but not limited to CosmosDB, Postgres, MySQL
- Experience of SQL Server Migrations to the public cloud







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We don’t believe hiring is a tick box exercise, so if you feel that you don’t match the job description 100%, but would still be a great fit for role, please get in touch.