Senior SQL DBA (Database Administrator)

Devonshire Hayes have partnered with a fantastic organisation to help them secure a talented Senior SQL DBA

You will be tasked with the following,

• Enterprise DBA experience (SQL Server plus exposure to other data platforms)
• Performance optimisation (workload analysis, indexing/physical design, capacity planning)
• Azure managed relational experience (eg, Azure SQL MI/DB): migration, operations, and tooling
• Distributed NoSQL experience (eg, Cosmos DB/MongoDB/DynamoDB): data modelling and operational tuning
• Modern analytics/lakehouse concepts (eg, Fabric/Synapse/Databricks), pipelines, and semantic models
• Backup/restore, high availability, and disaster recovery (design, testing, and execution)
• SQL replication experience (including migration to AVG)
• Monitoring, diagnostics, and incident management (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics)
• Comfortable working in controlled production environments (change management, release windows, safe script execution) and participating in on-call support.
• Automation and CI/CD for data/database changes (PowerShell/Python; IaC where applicable)
• Database security (access control, encryption, compliance/audit).

You will be required to work in the office 1 day per week and this role will involve on call rota, once in every 2-3 weeks.