Database Administrator
London / contract / Up to £600 a day

Carla Stephens
Up to £600 a day
contract
Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location.
Harris Global are currently on the lookout for a Database Administrator to work for a Wealth Management client. This is a 6 month contract role working on a Hybrid basis in London. The ideal candidate will have experience working with Azure and SQL.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary resource aligned to deliver required DBA activities to support current business/technical projects
- Work within a team (4) of in-house DBAs to support around 1400 databases/140 MS SQL database Servers across production and test environments
- Support the business via a support call system (ServiceNow), resolving logged support calls within agreed SLAs
- Performing proactive monitoring of the SQL Server estate, ensuring system availability and performance
- The role will involve providing excellent technical support cover and efficient resolution of issues to minimize impact to business users
- The role will require providing tactical and strategic solutions focusing on database design, scalability, availability, tuning and performance enhancements
Key Skills:
- Administering, managing & maintaining very large databases (4TB+) requiring 24/7 availability
- Strong performance tuning and troubleshooting skills
- Knowledge of Transact SQL
- ETL - SSIS (Data Factory preferable)
- Data warehousing - SSAS (Analysis Services in Azure preferable)
- SSRS & PowerBI
- Database & server health monitoring (DPA preferable)
- SQL Server HA/DR
- SQL Server Availability Groups/Always On
- Database mirroring
- SQL Server Log shipping
- Backup and Recovery
- Replication
- Multi-Subnet Windows Clustering