Croydon Harris global Ltd, 3rd Floor One Croydon, 12-16, Addiscombe Road, Croydon CR0 0XT
Database Administrator 2023-03-15 Harris Global are currently on the lookout for a Database Administrator to work for a Wealth Management client.  Harris Global 2023-04-15

Database Administrator

London / contract / Up to £600 a day

Carla Stephens

600 DAY

Up to £600 a day

GBP

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