Senior SQL Database Administrator
Posted 6 days ago by Foresters Financial
£65,000 Per year
Undetermined
Hybrid
Bromley, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior SQL Database Administrator will be an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team, focusing on the development and maintenance of customer-facing portals and internal systems. This role involves database administration, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting, while also participating in incident management and collaborating with other IT teams. The position offers flexibility in working arrangements after a training period, with a strong emphasis on quality service and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will possess solid experience in SQL Server and related technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitor and tune SQL Server database performance.
- Administer SQL Server databases and develop views, stored procedures, and SSIS packages.
- Provide guidance and estimates to ensure operational support for proposed solutions.
- Manage 2nd-3rd line incidents and problem management for client-facing technology services.
- Participate in major incident resolution and post-incident reviews.
- Liaise with external suppliers and specialist teams to resolve incidents.
- Resolve complex application incidents and requests.
- Extend the DevOps framework and automate development and release processes.
- Engage in systems design, development, code review, debugging, and testing.
Key Skills:
- Solid experience as a DBA and/or systems developer.
- Expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, database administration, data movement, SSIS, and data analytics.
- Experience in development and deployment.
- Knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) concepts.
- Passion for quality service and willingness to develop new skills.
- Experience in building APIs and RESTful services is advantageous.
Salary (Rate): £65,000.00 yearly
City: Bromley
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
As our Senior SQL DBA will be part of a multi-disciplinary team consisting of application specialists and system technical experts. You will be involved in the end-to-end development and maintenance of our customer facing portal, internal systems, core administration systems and analytics. You will be working with other internal IT teams to identify root cause, supporting technical and functional triage of incidents, being responsible for being the 2nd line and 3rd line for business critical applications and in responding to incoming incidents, queries and requests . This opportunity is a mix of ensuring that both new and existing systems and services are running optimally end-to-end, analytics, and database administration. You will be involved in technical specifications, T-SQL development, deployment of SSIS packages or new releases, as well troubleshooting solution s. Your day to day will inclu de:
- SQL Server database performance monitoring / tu ningSQL Server database administra tion
- Design and develop views, stored procedures and SSIS packages using Visual Stu dio.
- Providing advice, guidance and estimates to the development and technical process as required to ensure proposed solutions are operationally supporta ble.
- Undertaking 2nd-3rd line incidents and problem management for client-facing technology services, messaging / APIs, and business applicati ons.
- Actively participating in the resolution of major incidents, post-incident reviews and change implementation revi ews.
- Liaising with external suppliers of software and services, and other specialist teams within IT to resolve incide nts.
- Responsibility for ensuring resolving complex application incidents and reque sts.
- Working with other IT teams to extend the DevOps framework and working on ways to automate and improve development and release proces ses.
- Systems design, development, code review, debugging, and support tests of bugs
Working hours are 40 hours a week Monday to Friday. Start times are flexible from 8.00am to 9.30am. After a successful training period there is flexibility to work from home for 2/3 days a w eek.
What we req uire:
- Solid experience as DBA and/or systems deve loper.
- Microsoft SQL Server expert, database administration, data movement, SSIS, and data anal ytics.
- Experience of development and deplo yment.
- Knowledge of concepts Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).
- Passionate about providing quality service and willing to develop new s kills.
- Experience of building APIs, RESTful services would be to an adva ntage.
What we off er you:
- Basic salary up to £65,000 p er annum
- Discretionary annual bonus dependent on your performance and company performance provided you are employed on bonus payme nt date.
- Annual holiday allowance of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Life Assurance (based on pensionable e arnings)
- Generous contributory Pensio n scheme
- Season Tic ket Loan
- 1 days paid charitable workday
- Employee Assistance P rogramme