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The Senior Database Administrator is responsible for the configuration, installation, maintenance, and support of Databases within a defined technology/capability discipline, as well as advanced management including performance and application tuning. The role will ensure the implementation and support of customer systems to a level in proportion of your experience and within ITIL framework.

What You’ll Do:

You will be accountable to:

• Maintain and support Microsoft SQL Server environments, including installation, configuration, patching and version upgrades.
• Ensure the ongoing operation of SQL Server databases across development, testing and production environments.
• Monitor database performance, availability and capacity, identifying and addressing issues before they impact users.
• Analyse and optimise database performance through query tuning, indexing strategies and configuration improvements.
• Implement and maintain backup, recovery and disaster recovery processes, including testing of recovery procedures.
• Plan and implement database changes, releases and upgrades in accordance with change management processes.
• Improve operational efficiency by developing and maintaining scripts to automate routine administration tasks.
• Investigate and resolve database incidents, performing root cause analysis and implementing preventative measures where appropriate.
• Work closely with application, infrastructure and project teams to support solution delivery and ensure database requirements are met.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation, operational procedures and database standards to support ongoing service delivery.
• Administer SQL Server environments across Development, Test, UAT and Production
• Provide on-call support for critical environments as part of a 24x7 on-call roster.
• meet your customers SLA’s and achieve your project and support deliverables.