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