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Tech Specialist - SQL Administrator
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Role: Tech Specialist - SQL Administrator
Location: Birmingham (likely to be remote) (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Package: £45,000 - £52,000 plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday
Interview Process: 2-stage process
Why SCC?
- An inclusive workplace
- Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
- Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
- Career development and life-long learning opportunities
- Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
Role Purpose
As a SQL Server DBA, you will provide technical expertise in delivering, supporting and continuously improving SCC's enterprise SQL Server DBA services supporting business-critical applications for its customers.
Working closely with Infrastructure, Application, Security and Project teams, you will own the end-to-end support around health, performance, security, and availability of critical database platforms, while contributing to modernisation, automation and operational excellence initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the architecture, tuning, performance, and support strategy for enterprise MS SQL Server infrastructure, on-premises and in the cloud (Azure SQL Database/Managed Instance, SQL Server on Azure)
- Lead the technical resolution of complex SQL Server incidents, service requests and problem investigations, ensuring effective root cause analysis and permanent resolution.
- Lead SQL Server lifecycle activities, including implementation, configuration, upgrades, patching, migrations, maintenance and decommissioning.
- Lead and/or ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE in IT and cloud migration projects across analysis, design, testing, environment preparation, cutover, and change impact analysis
- Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives — assessing, planning, and executing lift-and-shift, re-platforming, or re-architecting of SQL Server workloads to Azure
- Ensure SQL Server platforms consistently meet agreed service levels for availability, resilience, performance, recoverability and security.
- Design, implement and continuously improve SQL Server high availability, disaster recovery, replication and database security solutions.
- Drive automation, standardisation and operational excellence across SQL Server services.
- Define, maintain, and continuously improve SQL Server standards, operational procedures and technical documentation.
- Design, review, and continuously improve daily/weekly/monthly health check frameworks, proactive monitoring, and alerting across on-prem and cloud-hosted databases
- Collaborate with Infrastructure, Backup, Monitoring, Application, Security and Project teams to deliver scalable, resilient and secure SQL Server services.
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Skills And Experience
- Advanced, hands-on DBA expertise across multiple versions of SQL Server technologies including installation, configuration, and administration
- Expert knowledge of SQL Server architecture, administration and troubleshooting.
- Deep understanding of SQL Server architecture, internals, and query execution / optimisation
- Proven experience administering and supporting cloud-hosted SQL platforms: Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and/or AWS RDS/EC2 for SQL Server
- Strong expertise across SQL Server high availability, disaster recovery, database security and replication technologies.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and performance tuning skills, including execution plan analysis, indexing strategy and wait statistics.
- Experience working within ITIL-based service management environments.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management and technical documentation skills.
- Strong analytical, structured, and methodical approach to complex, ambiguous problems, including major incident and root-cause analysis
- Demonstrated commitment to Quality Standards, security best practice, and continuous improvement
- Commitment to continuous improvement, operational excellence and customer-focused service delivery.
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About Us
SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.
We are an equal opportunities employer
SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.
If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.
Diversity & Inclusion at SCC - https://www.scc.com/diversity-and-inclusion/
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