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SQL Server DBA Job Description

Responsible for supporting the SQL Server databases and ensuring their performance, availability and security

Duties and Responsibilities
  • Responsible for ensuring availability and performance of the databases that support the system.
  • Work to ensure that the associated hardware resources allocated to the databases and to ensure high resilience and performance tuning.
  • To proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime (both SQL Server and Oracle interface).
  • Responsible for providing trend analysis to management team to enable them to make informed decisions regarding resource management.
  • Responsible for troubleshooting and problem solving of SQL and Oracle development.
  • Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include rollout and upgrades.
  • Responsible for implementation and release of database changes according to agreed timescales and costs.
 

Skills / Attributes Required
  • In depth SQL Server Database Administration experience and Oracle.
  • Experience of managing multiple MS SQL 2000 & 2005 RDBMS on large systems
  • Strong self-sufficiency and initiative working on Database projects
  • Experience Practical experience in monitoring and tuning a database to provide a high availability service.
  • Experience of Transactional SQL, and DTS stored procedures.
  • Practical experience in managing the internal and external MS SQL database security
 

Salary / Benefits Package

Up to £40,000 plus Pension and 25 days holiday

 

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