Remote Senior SQL Database Administrator

Summary

Join our team as a Senior SQL Database Administrator and provide ongoing delivery and support for well-recognised clients worldwide. As part of the DBA support team, you will deliver a first-class service to our clients, communicating regularly with technical, applications, and operational colleagues to ensure database integrity, security, and performance.

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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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