Senior SQL Server DBA

Role description and responsibilities A senior SQL Server DBA role with strong ownership of production database operations, deeply integrated with Azure cloud services.

requires solid technical autonomy, cloud-native expertise and the ability to operate independently across the full DBA lifecycle — from performance tuning to incident resolution and release management. Infrastructure partners provide support but the DBA maintains direct operational responsibility. Administer Microsoft SQL Server databases in production, integrated with Azure cloud services, with strong operational ownership Manage Always-On Availability Groups, Failover Cluster Instances and storage account operations Lead technical resolution of SQL Server incidents: diagnose, remediate and produce structured root cause analysis independently Execute and validate production releases using Azure DevOps and Urban

Code Deploy (UCD) Perform query tuning, T-SQL optimisation and execution plan analysis Administer and optimise Azure SQL, Azure Pipelines, Azure Monitor and Azure Event Hub Enforce security, permissions management and audit-quality documentation Collaborate with application teams, infrastructure partners and release management Contribute to runbook quality and continuous improvement of database operations

University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or comparable technical field 5–10 years of hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server in production environments Proven trac