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. What we're looking for
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. Desirable experience includes:
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. Why join?
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. If you're a SQL DBA looking for a role where you'll have real ownership of critical database environments while working with modern Microsoft technologies, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today to find out more
Salary description
£50000.00 - £50000.00 per year