Description:
Devonshire Hayes have partnered with a fantastic organisation to help them secure a talented Senior SQL DBA . You will be tasked with the following,
- Enterprise DBA experience (SQL Server plus exposure to other data platforms)
- Performance optimisation (workload analysis, indexing/physical design, capacity planning)
- Azure managed relational experience (e.g., Azure SQL MI/DB): migration, operations, and tooling
- Distributed NoSQL experience (e.g., Cosmos DB/MongoDB/DynamoDB): data modelling and operational tuning
- Modern analytics/lakehouse concepts (e.g., Fabric/Synapse/Databricks), pipelines, and semantic models
- Backup/restore, high availability, and disaster recovery (design, testing, and execution)
- SQL replication experience (including migration to AVG)
- Monitoring, diagnostics, and incident management (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics)
- Comfortable working in controlled production environments (change management, release windows, safe script execution) and participating in on-call support.
- Automation and CI/CD for data/database changes (PowerShell/Python; IaC where applicable)
- Database security (access control, encryption, compliance/audit).
You will be required to work in the office 1 day per week and this role will involve on call rota, once in every 2-3 weeks.
