Senior SQL Database Administrator

Youll be working from our Sofia location (at least for 3 days a week from the office and home) collaborating and socialising with your colleagues across all of our offices in the UK Bulgaria and India. 

There will be a need to work outside of the normal office hours occasionally but this can be remotely (from your home) and of course this time will be recognised and rewarded.

As a Senior SQL Database Administrator you will provide ongoing delivery and support for wellrecognised clients worldwide. You will be part of the DBA support team that will deliver a firstclass service to our clients. You will be communicating regularly with technical applications and operational colleagues to ensure database integrity security and performance. Your responsibilities will include:

• 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.

Qualifications :

SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS

• 5 years of experience working in similar roles.
• Strong written and spoken English.
• 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.
• 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 TSQL 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.
• Problemsolving skills and ability to think analytically.
• Willingness to learn based on feedback.
• Ability to identify opportunities and issues in SQL Server environments.

Additional Information :

Nice to Have:

• 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

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We dont believe hiring is a tick box exercise so if you feel that you dont match the job description 100% but would still be a great fit for role please get in touch.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime