SQL DBA

We are looking for a proven SQL Database Administrator to join our client (Financial Services) on a 6-month initial contract, working in a hybrid model: 2 days onsite each week at the London office.

This position is operating inside IR35, and will have a pay rate of approx. £600 per day

Responsibilities

• Building SQL Databases using the client's Standard SQL builds
• Coordinating with other Infrastructure and Security teams to ensure the SQL Database build process is completed successfully
• Performing Quality Assurance check on new SQL Databases
• Performing Backups and Restores of SQL Databases
• Remediating any issues that are found post build or post transformation
• Performing decommissioning of redundant SQL Databases
• Support Application Migrations to new infrastructure and Data Centres

Required Experience

• Windows Clustering and other HADR technologies
• Experience in administering and deploying to SSRS, SSIS and SSAS environments
• Substantial experience of Always On Availability Groups
• Substantial experience of SQL 2016 to SQL 2025
• Windows 2008R2/2012 experience
• Experience of working within a virtualised environment, including virtualised SQL servers using
• VMWare
• Powershell & PowerBI
• SQL Server Upgrades
• Change Management process
• Incident Management process
• Use of BMC Remedy/Helix

Useful Experience

• Active Directory
• Commvault
• SCOM
• SQL Server 2025
• Jira/Confluence
• Migrating between Data Centres
• Migration to the Cloud