SQL DBA
Location: Remote/Wool
Salary: £50,000 - £60,000
Position Overview:
We are looking for a SQL DBA support engineer who will be working as part of an award-winning team to provide mostly remote and some onsite technical support for one of our clients based in Wool. This can include incidents, problems, change requests, or projects depending on the requirements of our client. The engineer must possess excellent verbal communication skills as well as exceptional analytical and technical skills and continually look to improve on this. In addition, they need to collaborate with the entire on-site team with positive communication and sharing of knowledge and information.
The role will be heavily focused on SQL Database administration including design, implementation, and maintenance of the SQL environment, patching, and cyber security remediation.
Responsibilities:
* Ensuring SQL databases are performing at an optimum level.
* Defining backup and restore strategies and disaster recovery.
* Providing SQL Server database development and administration across business applications.
* Supporting client-specific business system implementation and migration.
* Ensuring implementation of best performance management approaches.
* Creating upgrade plans for database versions.
* Configuring database servers and following best practices.
* Proactively identifying and resolving problematic transactions.
* Overseeing database backup strategy and recovery procedures.
* Provisioning nonstandard items.
* Installing software patches and recovery procedures.
* Carrying out daily checks, completing service requests and change requests within SLA.
Qualifications and Experience:
* Significant and proven exposure to administering SQL Server 2014/2016/2019/2022 and Azure SQL.
* Strong knowledge of database and application low-level architecture.
* Proficiency in designing highly available database solutions.
* Strong knowledge of performance tuning, query optimisation, and index management.
* Experience with SQL monitoring tools.
* Proven experience in SQL scripting and coding.
* Experience with SQL clustering/high availability and disaster recovery.
* Expertise in SQL optimisation and tuning.
* Familiarity with Windows Server 2012/2019/2022 operating systems.
* Experience with Azure DevOps/SVN.
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