About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server (2016+) architecture and operations.
- Proven delivery experience with Always On Availability Groups, failover cluster instances (FCI), and log shipping or replication.
- Experience designing and operating databases for large-scale SharePoint environments.
- Strong performance engineering skills, including indexing, I/O, concurrency, wait statistics, and storage optimisation.
- Deep understanding of networking for Always On, listener design, and DNS failover.
- Excellent documentation and stakeholder communication skills.
- Active DV Clearance.
- Azure SQL high availability and disaster recovery experience (such as SQL MI or zone redundancy) is desirable.
- Hands-on AWS deployment experience for SQL workloads is desirable, including EC2, EBS, FSx, Route 53, CloudWatch, Backup, and Systems Manager.
- Experience with automation tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, or PowerShell DSC is desirable.
- Experience in regulated environments and security hardening is desirable.
Responsibilities
- Design, validate, and optimise the SQL Server platform supporting an enterprise SharePoint farm hosted on AWS.
- Define Proof of Value success criteria with the Infrastructure Architect, including RPO/RTO, failover time, throughput, and recovery steps.
- Set up and assess SQL Server resilience patterns on AWS, including Always On Availability Groups across multiple Availability Zones and appropriate storage and cluster dependencies.
- Integrate AWS monitoring, backup, systems management, and automation services as appropriate.
- Test SharePoint compatibility, including content, search, and service databases.
- Assess resilience options, including Always On Availability Groups, FCI, SIOS DataKeeper, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, and AWS Database Migration Service.
- Produce a resilience pattern catalogue, performance baseline, findings, and recommendations to inform the detailed design phase.
- Architect SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery for a mission-critical SharePoint farm on AWS.
- Evaluate AWS services and design and validate availability patterns, listener routing, quorum, and witness configurations.
- Work with the Infrastructure Architect and AWS ProServe team to assess resilience options and ensure network, IAM, and security requirements are met.
- Create documentation, runbooks, and handover materials for operations.
Technologies
- AWS
- Architect
- Azure
- CloudWatch
- EC2
- IAM
- Network
- PowerShell
- SQL
- Security
- SharePoint
- Terraform
- Cloud
- DMS
- Support
- Windows
More
We are recruiting for a known organisation based in London. The role involves transitioning an existing on-premises SharePoint deployment to SharePoint Subscription Edition on AWS. It begins with an eight-week Proof of Value focused on SQL Server resilience and may then progress to a comprehensive design phase through the end of 2026. The engagement is expected to run until March 2027, with a possibility of extension. On-site work is required three to four days per week, and flexible working options are available. You will collaborate with the organisations Infrastructure Architect and AWS ProServe team. We are advertising this role through Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited.
last updated 44 week of 2026