Job description
Role: Contract SQL DBA
Length: 3 Months
Rate: Negotiable
Location: Southampton/ Remote
IR35 Status: Inside
RESPONSIBILITIES/TASKS:
- Maintenance, support, and administration of production MS SQL database servers.
- Monitoring and improving system performance to ensure availability and performance of databases and associated applications and interfaces.
- Modification and manipulation of large volume Live transactional data for company and customer use within databases.
- Provide database design and solution support to the development team.
- Implementation and release of database changes.
- Ensuring that the database servers continue to operate under PCI-DSS requirements.
Essential Skills / Attributes Required
- Strong experience in a SQL centric role (any versions from 2008 onwards).
- Experience of working on large volume Live production systems.
- In depth SQL Server skills including:
- performance tuning,
- high availability,
- database configuration and management,
- applying database security practices.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to communicate with both technical and non-technical colleagues & customers.
- Strong analytical thinking.
- Well-presented and articulate in talking to customers.
- Flexibility and ability to adapt to change.
- Works well under pressure.
- Works well with developers to resolve issues.
- Provides reasoned advice to colleagues on database development and support.
- Innovative in developing database support functions.
Additional Skills preferred.
- Experience using SQL Server Availability Groups or Database Mirroring.
- Good understanding of Microsoft Networking and Windows Server (especially Clustering).
- Experience using SSAS / SSRS / SSIS.
- Experience using T-SQL skills including query optimisation.