Database Administrator - SQL Server - Remote From EU - Applicants Must Already have the right to work in the EU - Sponsorship not available

Overview

We are looking for an experienced Database Administrator to support and maintain database environments for a general information services organisation. The role covers day to day operations, performance and capacity management, disaster recovery, and migration of database platforms to the cloud. You will work within a database administration team alongside other technical service teams.

Responsibilities

- Troubleshoot, investigate and resolve database issues, including performance and capacity problems, within agreed ticket SLAs.
- Maintain database disaster recovery procedures to support continuous availability and fast recovery.
- Deploy databases in line with GBS standards and business requirements.
- Monitor, tune and manage scheduled tasks, backup jobs, recovery processes, alerts and storage, following change control procedures.
- Report on database performance, stability and storage utilisation, and flag upcoming needs.
- Document, test and implement updates to database systems,



including automation opportunities.
- Work across OLTP and OLAP environments, and outside normal business hours when required.

Key Skills and Experience

- Database administration experience, with expert level knowledge of SQL Server.
- Experience with a second platform such as Oracle or Postgres.
- Strong T-SQL skills, with the ability to read and understand code written by others.
- Experience managing database environments in the cloud, including on premises to cloud migrations.
- Azure or AWS technical certification (mandatory).
- Knowledge of data security, backup and recovery tools.
- Experience with Windows Server, including Active Directory.
- Clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to work independently in a changing environment.
- Building cloud database servers end to end.
- Exposure to automation, scripting or AI assisted operational processes, such as intelligent tuning and anomaly detection.
- Experience with MySQL, Cosmos DB, MongoDB or MariaDB.

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