SQL Server DBA

Client: Financial Services

Salary: £80,000-£110,000 + Bonus

Location: London

Skills: SQL Server, Performance Tuning, T-SQL, AlwaysOn, Azure

The role:

My client are looking to take on an experienced SQL Server DBA to join their team.

The ideal candidate will stem from a Financial Services background, and have 5+ years experience.

You will be required to be in the office 4 days per week.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all Database Management and Administration activities
• Manage and maintain a large scale SQL Server environment
• Monitoring, Backups and Restoration of Databases
• Optimising queries and stored procedures
• Index optimisation
• Database health and capacity monitoring
• Implementing automated alerting
• Database security best practices
• Working with Developers
• Participating in projects
• Occasionally providing out of hours support where required

Core skills required:

• 5+ years as a SQL Server DBA, ideally within Financial Services
• Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and newer
• T-SQL
• Query optimisation
• Index management
• High Availability/Disaster Recovery (AlwaysOn, Clustering etc.)
• Performance monitoring (Profiler, Extended Events etc.)

Desirable skills:

• SSRS/SSIS/SSAS
• PowerShell
• Microsoft Managed SQL Instance (Azure)
• C#
• Python

Please apply ASAP for more information.