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Senior SQL Database Administrator
📍 Cardiff. Mostly remote (1-2 times a month in the office)
💰 £60,000 - £65,000
🔐 SC clearance eligibility required
We’re recruiting for a Senior SQL Database Administrator to join a global technology consultancy, working on one of their major public-sector accounts.
You’ll manage and support a business-critical SQL Server estate across development, test and production, ensuring the databases remain secure, resilient, and performing effectively.
This is a broad, hands-on position combining traditional SQL Server administration with T-SQL development and Azure. You’ll take the lead on complex incidents, root-cause analysis, and performance improvements, while working closely with developers, Azure specialists, and DevOps engineers on releases, automation, and the wider modernization of the database estate.
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They’re looking for experience across:
- Microsoft SQL Server database administration
- Business-critical production environments
- T-SQL development and query optimization
- Backup, recovery, and resilience
- High availability and disaster recovery, including Always On, clustering, or log shipping
- Database security, access control, and auditing
- PowerShell scripting and database automation
- Azure database services, ideally Azure SQL or Azure SQL Managed Instance
The environment also includes Power BI and some legacy paginated reporting. Over time, there will be opportunities to develop further across Azure and Microsoft Fabric, with support for continued training and Microsoft certifications.
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The wider delivery team consists of around 12–13 people, including Azure architects, platform engineers, developers, DevOps, and release specialists. This is viewed as a strategic hire, with the opportunity to take on greater technical leadership and customer-facing responsibility over time.
The role is paying up to £65,000 and is predominantly home-based. The team normally meets in central Cardiff around once a fortnight, with some flexibility around attendance.
Eligibility to obtain SC clearance is required, and the interview process consists of two stages over Teams.
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