Job Description
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
* Responsible as part of a team for day-to-day management of the SQL Estate including ensuring service availability for all SQL Services, fully operational Failover Clusters and Availability.
* Responsible as part of a team for the Database backups and restorations in line with contractual requirements.
* Follow policies, standards, procedures and rules in order to administer the database environment
* Management of SQL Monitoring, DB Performance and Stability to minimise any database downtime
* Build SQL Servers \ Services in accordance to end users information needs.
* Test, and administer database security procedures and recovery procedures
* Liaise directly with the customer to resolve issues in a timely manner.
* In addition to the above duties and responsibilities the post holder must be prepared to undertake such additional duties which may result from changing circumstances, but which may not of necessity change the general character or level of responsibility to the post.
* Please note that this job description is subject to ongoing review as new demands and best working practices are considered, agreed and implemented.
Qualifications
Skills and qualities required:
* Excellent SQL Server Knowledge with regards to the administration and troubleshooting of SQL Server implementations within an enterprise environment – SQL Server 2008 and above.
* Excellent skills in stored procedures, replication, and query tuning
* Experience leading projects with the ability to handle multiple projects, priorities, and resource demands simultaneously
* Must have demonstrated communication skills, both verbal and written, and be comfortable communicating with upper management, vendors, and customers
* Ability to work within a complex, competitive and continuously changing environment
* Ability to build effective relationships quickly with relevant business functions and key stakeholders
* Good working knowledge of Windows Server technologies (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Windows Server 2008 and above)
* Good working knowledge of a backup technology
* Good working knowledge of incident, problem and change management
* A working knowledge of general networking (e.g. routing, firewall dependencies)
Additional Information
Applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
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.