About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- DV clearance
- 10+ years of Microsoft SQL Server architecture and engineering experience with SQL Server 2016 or later
- Strong experience with Always On Availability Groups, Failover Cluster Instances (FCI), and high availability/disaster recovery solutions
- Experience supporting large-scale SharePoint farms and SQL Server databases
- Strong SQL Server performance tuning, storage optimisation, and troubleshooting skills
- Knowledge of clustering, networking, DNS failover, and disaster recovery design
- Desirable: AWS experience with EC2, EBS, FSx, Route 53, CloudWatch, and AWS Backup
- Desirable: Infrastructure automation experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, or PowerShell
- Desirable: Azure SQL high availability/disaster recovery knowledge and experience in regulated environments
Responsibilities
- We are seeking an architect to support the migration of an enterprise-scale SharePoint platform from on-premises infrastructure to AWS
- We will ask you to assess SQL Server high availability, disaster recovery, and performance options during an initial eight-week Proof of Value
- You will work closely with our infrastructure and AWS architects to validate solutions and recommend a scalable, resilient, and cost-effective platform
- The work may progress into a detailed architecture and design phase
Technologies
- AWS
- Architect
- Azure
- CloudWatch
- EC2
- Support
- PowerShell
- SQL
- SharePoint
- Terraform
- Cloud
More
We are recruiting for a hybrid SQL Server Architect role in London, paying up to £610 per day inside IR35. The initial engagement is three months, with potential for longer-term work. The initial eight-week Proof of Value may lead to architecture and design work through to the end of 2026.
last updated 44 week of 2026