Senior SQL DBA — High Availability & Performance Expert

Sime Darby; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career Development

Health & Wellbeing Support

High-Performing Culture

Employee Benefits

Job summary

Hastings Deering (Australia) Ltd in Brisbane is seeking a Senior SQL Database Administrator to join our Information Technology team on a 2 year fixed term, full-time basis, based in Archerfield.

You will administer, optimise and secure our Microsoft SQL environment, provide Level 3 support, and work with stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable database solutions that support critical business applications across Hastings Deering.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in IT or CS.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in SQL Database Administration.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, including high availability solutions and Always On Availability Groups.
• Strong SQL scripting ability.
• Experience designing and supporting database architectures and data management solutions.
• Knowledge of backup, disaster recovery and business continuity practices.
• Microsoft SQL certifications highly regarded.
• Proactive approach to continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Experience with Dynamics AX is desirable.
• Experience with Commvault backups is desirable.
• Experience supporting Exchange and Microsoft 365 is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain and optimise Microsoft SQL Server environments to ensure performance, reliability and high availability.
• Monitor database health, troubleshoot issues and perform performance tuning.
• Develop and maintain backup, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
• Support projects with database design, implementation, migration and integration activities.
• Ensure data security, integrity, governance and best-practice database management.
• Provide Level 3 support and manage external vendors where required.
• Conduct database testing and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Identify optimisation opportunities and support enterprise architecture and platform governance.

Skills

SQL Server

SQL scripting

Always On

High availability

DR concepts

Data governance

5+ years experience

Education

IT/CS degree

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Job description

Hastings Deering (Australia) Ltd in Brisbane is seeking a Senior SQL Database Administrator to join our Information Technology team on a 2 year fixed term, full-time basis, based in Archerfield.

You will administer, optimise and secure our Microsoft SQL environment, provide Level 3 support, and work with stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable database solutions that support critical business applications across Hastings Deering.