Sql Dba
Posted 3 days ago by Hays
£60,000 Per year
Undetermined
Hybrid
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The SQL DBA role in Liverpool involves administering and managing the organization's SQL Server estate, ensuring reliability, integrity, security, and performance. The position requires proactive management of database operations, configuration, maintenance, and optimization, while collaborating with Agile development teams. The role also includes planning for upgrades and maintaining awareness of the Microsoft SQL Server roadmap. Candidates should have experience in a senior technical capacity within a multi-site enterprise environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with Agile development teams to design, build, optimise and implement databases for a range of existing and new products
- Proactively manage the day-to-day operations of the databases and infrastructure
- Management of SQL servers, including configuration, tuning, backups, and DR
- Management of database transitions through different environments (dev, test, live, migrations, etc.)
- Ensure that all databases are functioning optimally, are scalable, and regularly maintained, providing regular reports to your line manager
- Keep current with the Microsoft SQL Server roadmap and support lifecycle; proactively plan upgrades/patching and provide visibility of lifecycle risk
- Understand the department's strategic objectives and support and deliver the related initiatives
Key Skills:
- Experience in a fast moving IT department at a senior technical level
- Must have worked in a similar capacity within a multi-site medium to large scale enterprise
- A deep and demonstrable understanding of SQL, including SQL Server versions 2014 - 2025
- Installation and patching of SQL HA solutions, including AlwaysOn availability groups and clustered instances
- ETL tools and techniques
- Performance tuning SQL Queries and Stored Procedures
- Monitoring and alerting
- Basic understanding of ITIL principles and how they benefit the smooth running of IT operations
Salary (Rate): £60,000.00 yearly
City: Liverpool
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
SQL DBA Liverpool + 1 day Home working Up to £60,000
Your new role
To administer and manage the organisation's SQL Server estate, ensuring that the reliability, integrity, security and performance of these systems are maintained. Responsible for configuration, maintenance, optimisation, upgrades/update, and overall database performance within the group. Taking a proactive approach to adopting best practice and emerging technologies.
Responsibilities
- Work with Agile development teams to design, build, optimise and implement databases for a range of existing and new products
- Proactively manage the day-to-day operations of the databases and infrastructure
- Management of SQL servers, including configuration, tuning, backups, and DR
- Management of database transitions through different environments (dev, test, live, migrations, etc.)
- Ensure that all databases are functioning optimally, are scalable, and regularly maintained, providing regular reports to your line manager
- Keep current with the Microsoft SQL Server roadmap and support lifecycle; proactively plan upgrades/patching and provide visibility of lifecycle risk
- Understand the department's strategic objectives and support and deliver the related initiatives.
Experience needed
- Experience in a fast moving IT department at a senior technical level.
- Must have worked in a similar capacity within a multi-site medium to large scale enterprise
- A deep and demonstrable understanding of SQL, including:- SQL Server versions 2014 - 2025
- Installation and patching of SQL HA solutions, including AlwaysOn availability groups and clustered instances
- ETL tools and techniques
- Performance tuning SQL Queries and Stored Procedures
- Monitoring and alerting
- Basic understanding of ITIL principles and how they benefit the smooth running of IT operations
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