About this role
Salary: £75,000 - 85,000 per year
Requirements
- Strong commercial experience administering production Microsoft SQL Server environments across on-premises and Azure
- Extensive experience with SQL Server installation, patching, upgrades, migrations, and performance tuning
- Strong T-SQL skills and experience troubleshooting complex database and application issues
- Hands-on experience with Always On Availability Groups, replication, clustering, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery
- Practical PowerShell and Azure Automation experience
- Experience supporting Azure SQL Database and Azure Cosmos DB in hybrid environments
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD, and DACPAC-based database deployments
- Experience supporting SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS
- Experience using KQL for Azure resource inventory and operational reporting
- Proven experience delivering SQL Server upgrades or migrations, including testing, rollback, and post-upgrade validation
Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure Cosmos DB across production and non-production environments
- Plan and deliver SQL Server upgrades and migrations, including compatibility assessments, testing, deployment, and rollback planning
- Install, configure, patch, and upgrade SQL Server instances across complex environments
- Support Always On Availability Groups, clustering, SQL Server replication, and other high-availability technologies
- Manage database performance, capacity, security, backups, restores, and maintenance
- Troubleshoot database and application incidents, identify root causes, and implement permanent fixes
- Develop and maintain T-SQL, PowerShell, Azure Automation Runbooks, and database monitoring tools
- Support Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, Git, and DACPAC-based database deployment processes
- Support disaster recovery exercises, failover testing, and database recovery validation
- Work closely with Data Engineering across SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, Azure Data Factory, and Power BI
- Contribute to database standards, documentation, automation, and continuous improvement
- Participate in an on-call rota and out-of-hours maintenance where required
Technologies
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cosmos DB
- DevOps
- Git
- Support
- Power BI
- PowerShell
- SQL
- Security
- SSAS
- SSIS
- Cloud
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We are a global organisation with a complex hybrid technology environment. This senior database administrator role covers a database estate spanning on-premises SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure Cosmos DB, combining administration with automation, engineering, security, high availability, disaster recovery, and DevOps. A key focus is supporting our SQL Server 2025 upgrade programme and migrating remaining SQL Server 2019 and 2022 environments while maintaining operational stability. The position is based in the City of London on a hybrid basis, with a salary of £85,000 plus package.
last updated 46 week of 2026