SQL DBA
SQL Database Administrator (SQL DBA) Location: Wigan (2 days per week on-site)
Salary: Up to £50,000
Benefits: Hybrid working | Excellent pension | Professional development | Holiday allowance | Career progression
Our client, a leading organisation, is looking to recruit an experienced SQL Database Administrator (SQL DBA) to join its Infrastructure team.
This is an excellent opportunity for a DBA who enjoys owning SQL Server environments, ensuring critical databases remain secure, available and performing at their best. You'll play a key role in maintaining and improving the organisation's Microsoft SQL estate while supporting wider infrastructure and platform initiatives.
What you'll do
Apply today to find out more.
Salary: Up to £50,000
Benefits: Hybrid working | Excellent pension | Professional development | Holiday allowance | Career progression
Our client, a leading organisation, is looking to recruit an experienced SQL Database Administrator (SQL DBA) to join its Infrastructure team.
This is an excellent opportunity for a DBA who enjoys owning SQL Server environments, ensuring critical databases remain secure, available and performing at their best. You'll play a key role in maintaining and improving the organisation's Microsoft SQL estate while supporting wider infrastructure and platform initiatives.
What you'll do
- Administer, maintain and optimise Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL environments.
- Manage database backups, restores and disaster recovery processes, ensuring data integrity and business continuity.
- Monitor and tune database performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements.
- Develop and maintain database maintenance plans covering indexing, statistics, integrity checks and housekeeping.
- Ensure high availability and resilience across production database environments.
- Support database security through access management, permissions and least-privilege principles.
- Work closely with infrastructure and software engineering teams to support application deployments and database changes.
- Assist with Windows Server administration, patching and platform maintenance where required.
- Investigate database incidents, perform root cause analysis and implement preventative improvements.
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures and recovery processes.
- Participate in an out-of-hours support rota for critical incidents.
- Commercial experience as a SQL Database Administrator or SQL Server DBA.
- Strong administration experience across Microsoft SQL Server.
- Experience with Azure SQL Database or Azure-based SQL environments.
- Knowledge of backup, recovery, high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
- Experience with SQL performance tuning, optimisation and troubleshooting.
- Understanding of SQL Server security, permissions and database governance.
- Experience supporting production environments and following change control processes.
- PowerShell scripting or SQL automation experience would be advantageous.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to continuous improvement.
- Always On Availability Groups, replication or failover technologies.
- Exposure to PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle.
- Azure infrastructure and cloud services.
- Infrastructure monitoring and alerting tools.
- Cyber security best practices and vulnerability management.
- Salary of up to £50,000
- Hybrid working with just 2 days per week on-site in Wigan
- Work across business-critical SQL Server and Azure SQL platforms.
- Opportunity to influence database performance, resilience and future improvements.
- Supportive team with excellent opportunities for learning and career development.
Apply today to find out more.