Microsoft DBA

Our client, a rapidly expanding startup based in Newcastle, servicing leading financial organisations are looking to hire the best talent in the region.

If you're keen to work in a demanding and fast-paced role, with unparalleled growth opportunities, are passionate about technology and solving complex problems, then this could be the role for you!

Responsibilities

• Wide and inquisitive interest in general technology and ability to turn your hand to many different technical problems
• Passionate about the robust nature of the technologies under your ownership and will take pride in delivering productivity, quality, and reliability
• A good understanding of ITIL processes, in particular a structured approach to continuous improvement of the production environment
• Respect of timelines and an in built urgency to resolve issues in a timely way
• Great team players with DevOps, Support, QA and Dev colleagues, never blaming others when problems arise
• Form strong, honest and mutually respectful relationships with the key clients, visiting their offices as required
• Have the ability to learn new technologies and expand the role and your skills
• On-call is expected once every 4 weeks, overnight/weekend and only for production issues

Experience:

• Maintain on-premise and Azure SQL databases (upgrades, high availability backup administration, monitoring, optimisations of DB Servers, optimisations of SQL/procedures)
• Work with Cloud Azure SQL Server, Data Lake and related cloud data storage technologies
• Strong MS SQL knowledge with the ability to interrogate data stores and schema, investigate the results, and provide solutions to improve performance
• Work with and challenge developers, and support business to improve the use of SQL Server via better schemas, performant stored procedures/views/functions

Preferred:

• High availability via Always-On and Basic Availability Groups
• Backup/restore (DB/transaction logs)
• Powershell - dbatools or SqlServer modules
• Performance optimisation
• SQL Server Maintenance - Agent Jobs, Monitoring
• SQL server configuration
• Partitioning
• SQL snapshots
• Change data capture
• Understanding of SAN arrays - Nimble preferred, PURE or others acceptable
• Financial services experience a bonus, but not essential

For this particular opportunity, there is a requirement to be based in their Newcastle office 5 days per week, and have first-class education results (minimum 2:1, ideally from Russell Group Universities), along with the right to work in the UK.