Role: Senior Database Administrator
Location: Home Based Working (Occasional travel when required)
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Salary: £65,000 - £80,000 Per Annum
Are you proactive, enjoy solving problems, and want to work in a fast-paced IT environment, we’d love to hear from you!
Within this role you will provide SQL server support in a DBA capacity and relevant database technical support for the IT business function. Managing the resolution of database Support issues that arise for internal and external customers.
You will also serve as a Database Administrator Subject Matter Expert (SME) and support the Projects, Design and Build teams to achieve key business objectives
Responsibilities:
- Ensure database incidents and problems are resolved and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are upheld in a timely manner.
- Be the technical DBA SME for the IT application stack, provide guidance and advice on best practice when appropriate.
- Proactively own the continuous improvement cycle from inception to delivery and support for the existing SQL estate.
- Serve as a point of technical escalation as a DBA SME and SQL licensing expert.
- Liaise with 3rd parties as necessary to carry out work duties.
- Advise on Application, solution improvement and or technical design as a DBA SME.
- Daily use of the company ticketing system.
- Own, create and or maintain the database support knowledge base using the company knowledgebase system.
- Adhere to company policies and procedures to ensure compliance with regulatory and internal requirements
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About You
Required Skills
- Minimum 5 years’ experience as a SQL Database administrator in a production environment. (SQL maintenance, patching, logging, migration etc)
- Certified SQL DBA.
- Experience managing SQL clusters.
- 3rd line equivalent SQL server support experience in an enterprise environment.
- Working knowledge of Powershell and or T-SQL.
- Previous experience administrating remote production systems.
- Good understanding and experience of working with IIS server and related web technologies.
- Previous experience working with enterprise IT server technologies and environments.
- Ability to research, diagnose and resolve database and related application support issues.
- Must be able to manage and track your own priorities, workload and work under pressure.
- Tenacious problem-solving and technical IT troubleshooting skills.
- Positive can-do attitude, team player who can work on own initiative and take ownership to deliver excellence.
Desirable Skills
- Experience working on High-availability groups and disaster recovery for SQL.
- Experience Designing and Implementing SQL clusters.
- Certified SQL Server Database Administrator.
- Working with encrypted databases.
- Experience converting from MS SQL to MySQL and or Postgres.
- Experience with MySQL, Postgres and or MongoDB.
- AWS, Azure and or Google Cloud Platform database certification.
- Experience in managing document management solutions.
- Experience of mentoring – delivering content, providing guidance and or support to others.
What We Can Offer You:
- Life assurance
- Annual leave entitlement (starting with 20 – 25 days + bank holidays)
- Contributory pension scheme
- Share save scheme
- Paid volunteer day
- Long service recognition
- Eyecare voucher
- Retail discounts
- Family leave
- Employee assistance programme