We are an Employee-Owned company providing IT-managed services, projects, and professional services to a diverse range of clients. Our team is currently looking for a self-driven, highly motivated SQL DBA to join our team in Edinburgh. As a SQL Server DBA, you will be responsible for supporting our managed service clients database solutions, ensuring high levels of availability and performance.
Key Responsibilities:
* Supporting managed service clients database solutions (mainly based on SQL Server) as part of our DBA team, ensuring high levels of availability and performance
* Performing advanced troubleshooting, including working together with Microsoft and other vendors
* Designing and building new SQL Server environments for high performance, availability and scalability
* Design and build of modern data environments within Microsoft Azure
* Carrying out SQL Server performance reviews and tuning work at both small and very large scales
* Upgrade / consolidation / migration projects
* ETL project work including SSIS and Azure Data Factory
Requirements:
* 3+ years of experience as a SQL Server DBA or similar role supporting production SQL Server instances.
* Experience with design, build and configuration of SQL Server
* Experience with Windows Server / Server hardware
* Experience with Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO) of database systems
* Experience with database design and optimisation of SQL queries
* Experience with backups, restores and recovery models
* Experience of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server
Desirable Requirements:
* Experience of Azure database technologies such as Azure SQL DB, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure Analysis Services or have a desire and willingness to be upskilled in these technologies
* Knowledge of other relational DBMS platform (eg MySQL, Postgres, Oracle)
* Experience of a wider Azure infrastructure
* Experience in DevOps or previous experience working within an IT Managed Services provider with multiple clients
We offer highly competitive salaries with an excellent benefits package, including contributory Pension, Private Health Care, the ability to buy and sell holidays, as well as paying for your home broadband, excellent training and development opportunities, and an annual personal technical budget to ensure you stay up to date with the latest technologies.
We encourage personal development and have a highly collaborative working culture with high levels of employee retention. We have won awards for our Family Friendly Working and pride ourselves on our ability to manage employees' individual needs to make work-life fit around their personal life.