Senior SQL Server Support DBA

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Our vision is to make Lloyds Banking Group the best bank for customers. As the UK's largest retail and commercial bank, we have a footprint that touches nearly every community and household in the UK. That gives us a big responsibility to support the UK economy, and to put customers at the heart of everything we do. To achieve this, we also need to be the best bank for our colleagues and our communities - and we have a clear strategy in place to make this a reality. We are building on our many strengths: iconic brands, strong heritages and great people. To unlock the great potential in our business, we are becoming more efficient, more transparent, and more responsive to customers. Already the UK's largest community investor, we are giving even more back. Above all, we are putting customers first.

Our Database Services SQL Support Team now has an opportunity for an experienced SQL Server Support DBA to support a wide range of SQL instances and also ensure high level technical support of products, applications and services.

You'll provide the SQL Server DBA expertise and best practice that will improve our services and processes, mitigating any risks associated with the environment.

You'll also be involved with the resolution of incidents and problems and perform quality assurance, for our offshore team of SQL DBAs.

You'll have proven and extensive experience of managing SQL Server databases in a live environment as well as having excellent knowledge of all SQL Server versions (up to and including SQL 2008 R2) - knowledge of SQL 2014 would be desirable.

An integral part of this role will be how well you communicate technical issues and concepts in an appropriate manner whilst keeping it simple for your colleagues and key external and internal stakeholders.

Working in our small, dedicated team, you'll be highly motivated and have a strong support ethic for your team members. You'll have a proven ability to recognise and drive through SQL Server database improvements and strong experience of database performance tuning and diagnosis; application database recovery.

You'll provide support on standard hours, standby/ callout and rota basis, to support 1150 SQL Database instances overnight & also maintain day service so we're looking for you to have a flexible attitude towards working arrangements.

As one of the first major employers to offer flexible working to all its employees, we understand the importance of good work-life balance.

Lloyds Banking Group promotes flexible working where possible. Our Database Services team work across multi sites so this role could be based in our London or Pudsey (Leeds) offices.

We offer a highly competitive reward package - based on acting responsibly, and demonstrating our values and ethics.

Join us for a role that matters. Get in touch and you could soon be helping us work towards our vision of being the best bank for customers.

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