Senior SQL Database Engineer with AI & Automation

Bluefin Resources Pty; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Major Bank in Sydney is seeking a Senior SQL Database Engineer with AI experience to join its technology team and manage a large-scale SQL Server environment across on-premises and cloud infrastructure.

You will drive AI adoption, automation and advanced analytics to enhance performance, availability and operational efficiency while ensuring security and governance in a complex enterprise setting.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in SQL Server database engineering, administration and performance tuning within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Applying AI and machine learning to database monitoring, performance optimisation and predictive analytics.
• Exploring AIOps capabilities and integrating AI-powered tooling into enterprise database management environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 or later.
• Deep technical knowledge of SQL Server architecture, indexing, query optimisation, performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Experience implementing automation, monitoring and analytics solutions to improve database operations.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, administer and optimise a large-scale SQL Server environment across on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
• Drive the adoption of AI and machine learning capabilities within database operations to improve monitoring, predictive analytics, incident detection and automated remediation.
• Leverage AI-powered tools and intelligent automation to identify performance trends, predict potential issues and improve database serviceability.
• Use data analytics and trending to support capacity planning, performance optimisation, cost management and operational risk reduction.
• Manage SQL Server performance, availability, scalability and resilience across complex enterprise environments.
• Design, implement and maintain high-availability and disaster recovery solutions, including Always On Availability Groups and Windows Server Failover Clustering.
• Develop and optimise T-SQL scripts, stored procedures and automation using PowerShell and other relevant technologies.
• Support database integration, reporting and analytics technologies, including SSIS, SSAS and Power BI Report Server (PBIRS).

Skills

SQL Server

DBA

Performance tuning

AI in databases

Cloud (Azure/AWS)

PowerShell

T-SQL

Tools

SSIS

SSAS

PBIRS

Always On

Windows Server

Job description

Major Bank in Sydney is seeking a Senior SQL Database Engineer with AI experience to join its technology team and manage a large-scale SQL Server environment across on-premises and cloud infrastructure.

You will drive AI adoption, automation and advanced analytics to enhance performance, availability and operational efficiency while ensuring security and governance in a complex enterprise setting.