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JOBG8

Salary

Up to £60,000 per year + 50000.00-60000.00

Location

London

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

SQL DBA - (North London) - 50,000 - 60,000 + Shares + Pension + Benefits

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced SQL Server DBA specialist with experience of large 24/7 Production Environments. You will be working with a talented team of technical database specialists who are always looking to implement cutting edge technology to utilise the continuous improvements from the SQL server product set. The infrastructure design for the database platform is in your hands to shape the future for and continue to show how to deliver world class scalable IT solutions.

Role

To provide expertise and support for a SQL database environment by:

* Contributing to the creation and the enforcement of SQL Server database implementation and management standards based on industry-wide best practice

* Ensuring that there are processes, procedures and instrumentation in place to provide the highest performance and availability for all database services

* Ensuring data integrity is maintained for managed database services

* Providing performance capacity management for the growth and usage for managed database services

* Providing problem management and problem resolution for database services issues

* Support the 24x7 SQL Servers out of hours in an on call capacity

Specific Deliverables

* To provide support for all of production, DR and non-production database services and environments

* To support development, testing and the implementation phases of SQL Server

* To support the migration phases of SQL Server version and hardware system upgrades.

* Analysis and follow-through of application service problems against the critical trading and reporting databases

* To maintain highly available database systems

* The maintenance and upgrade for a disaster recovery and replication strategies

Candidate Profile

* To succeed you must combine a strong degree level qualification or equivalent with a sound approach of technical programming expertise. You'll need a logical approach to problem solving, and the ability to constructively review solutions proposed by our development teams.

* Relevant production experience in the SQL Server product area

* Excellent written and communication skills

* IT experience in a system specialist role

* Has a successful track record of delivery, and broad understanding of technology and how it is applied

* Advanced Administration of Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 products

* Advanced knowledge of TSQL

* Experience of Installation and configuration to industry standards

* SQL and Transact SQL Reporting

* Understanding of Security/Roles and interaction to Active Directory

* Performance Tuning Principals

* Database design and capacity planning

* Backup/Recovery Principals

* Advanced understanding of SQL Replication

* Understanding of Microsoft Windows Clustering

* Understanding of SAN technology