SQL Database Administrator

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Looking to escape the London commute? Want to work with cutting-edge technologies, grow your existing expertise and play a key role in a growing FinTech business? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

Premium Credit is the leading insurance premium finance company in the UK and Ireland. Due to ongoing expansion, we are now looking for a SQL Database Administrator to join our team.

Here at Premium Credit, technology is at the heart of everything we do. As our SQL Database Administrator, you will become a key player in our day-to-day operations and in return, you’ll receive excellent benefits and plenty of opportunities to develop, both personally and professionally.

As a SQL Database Administrator, you’ll ensure that Premium Credit’s database systems meet the needs of the business.

Working in an ITIL and Agile environment, you’ll support and administer our 24/7 production database systems, ensuring that any issues are resolved in a swift and efficient manner.

Specifically, your duties will involve:

- Performing root cause analysis of database issues and implementing tactical and strategic fixes

- Backup and recovery management

- Security management

- Installing and upgrading database systems

- Creating, establishing, documenting and maintaining procedures for managing systems

- Assisting with the development of technical architectures

- Helping to plan and review database designs and strategies

Interested? To be considered, you’ll need:

- At least five years’ experience of administering Microsoft SQL Server RDBMS database technologies

- At a minimum, three years’ proven production support experience

- Experience of administering highly available Always On and clustered configurations, as well standalone configurations

- Knowledge of related MS SQL technologies, including SSIS, SSRS and SSAS

- Knowledge of related supporting technologies such as Windows, Active Directory, storage and networking

- An understanding of the following technologies would also be an advantage: Cloud e.g. Azure, Powershell, virtualisation and IIS

The ideal SQL Database Administrator will also have experience of Oracle 10g/11g database RAC and single instance, but this is not essential.

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Additional Keywords: SQL Database Administrator, Database Administrator, Database Support Engineer, SQL DBA, SQL Engineer, Database Engineer, Database Admin.

Working Hours: 37.5 hours a week

Notice Period: 3 months (after probation)

Health & Safety Risks: None