A&O Shearman
Database Administrator
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What You Will Do
You will support key database for applications used by A&O Shearman that keep the firm running. These include the firm’s finance and customer relationship management systems, as well business intake and time capture. You will support other business critical applications, including file transfer, legal technology and various application services.
You will work with 3rd parties who provide expertise in these systems. The firm’s database infrastructure, MS-SQL, will also be supported by you. You will also support the Dynamics365 platform and applications built on it. Application servers and Databases are a mixture of on-premises and SaaS/cloud-hosted.
As well as supporting the databases stack, you will package, configure, test, and deploy applications to the firm. You will work with other service support teams in I&O, including End-User Compute, Infrastructure and Networks, to provide a world-class service to our business. You will also work with our global service desk, regional support teams and the global IT department. You will provide technical database expertise on projects when required.
- Provide availability, scalability and performance of all application database systems through data metrics
- Capture, analyse database metrics and bring forward improvements of database systems
- Identify, design and implement robust monitoring alerts to identify potential issues early
- Maintain core database infrastructure servers in Azure, AVS and on-premises
- Develop backup/restore procedures for major databases to ensure data integrity
- Develop and leverage automation procedures to turn repeatable actions into automated processes
- Analyse database capacity metrics on all server infrastructure
- Provide expertise for database engineering to optimise database migrations, queries and performance
- Management and monitoring of SQL availability groups and clustered SQL servers
- Lead in database related projects and ensure timely delivery.
- Analyse and use data to identify and prioritise operations to find root cause of major issues.
- Participate in on call and out of hours support for both application and databases
- Knowledge and use of DevOps and GitHub and other collaboration tool sets
- Support maintenance reviews, vulnerability assessments of MS SQL
- Ability to work independently and good communication skills
- Document and knowledge share learnings to wider team with ability to multi-task including team upskilling
- Experience with programming languages including PowerShell, SQL, Linux preferred
- Collaborate with other engineering teams on production changes, incidents and problem management
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What you will have
- Proficient Microsoft SQL
- Azure Server and SQL infrastructure
- AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals and DP-900 Azure Data Fundamentals preferred
- SQL AG, Clustering and high availability features experience
- SQL and PowerShell scripting experience
- SQL and server performance tuning
- SQL Replication performance and monitoring tuning
- Understanding of Linux server management
What We Can Offer You
To learn more about the culture and benefits available at A&O Shearman, please visit: Culture and benefits | A&O Shearman careers
Should you require additional support at any stage of the recruitment process due to a disability or a health condition, please do not hesitate to contact a member of our recruitment team who will work with you to provide any adjustments as required.
We are an equal opportunities recruiter and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE - A&O Shearman does not accept unsolicited CVs. For further information, please see our UK Recruitment Agency Policy and our commitment to direct sourcing here.
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