Senior Database Administrator

📋 Description

• Administering the SQL Server estate across the four in-scope platforms and their hosting models.
• Running backup and restore against defined recovery objectives, including regular restore testing.
• Operating availability and replication configurations and monitoring their health daily.
• Managing database security to a least-privilege model: access provisioning and review, permissions
• Running and extending scheduled maintenance (index/statistics upkeep, integrity checks, health
• Building baseline picture of normal for each platform to make degradation visible before incidents.

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive production experience administering Microsoft SQL Server in business-critical
• Backup, restore, and recovery against defined recovery objectives, including tested restores.
• Deep performance troubleshooting: execution plans, indexing strategy, statistics, blocking
• High availability in production (Always On availability groups, clustering, log shipping or
• Maintenance at estate scale: automated index and statistics upkeep and integrity checking.
• Strong T-SQL scripting and PowerShell (or equivalent) automation.