Senior SQL DBA - High Availability & Performance Lead

Hastings Deering (Australia) Ltd; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Health & wellbeing

High‑performing culture

Employee benefits

Job summary

Hastings Deering (Australia) Ltd is seeking an experienced Senior SQL Database Administrator to join the Information Technology team on a 2 year fixed term full‑time basis, based in our Archerfield office. You will administer and optimise the Microsoft SQL Server environment for stability, performance, security and high availability.

You will monitor health, perform tuning, implement backup/DR plans, support projects, ensure governance and manage external vendors.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in SQL Database Administration within an enterprise environment.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, including high availability solutions and Always On Availability Groups.
• Strong SQL scripting to work through complex data structures.
• Experience designing, implementing and supporting database architectures and data management solutions.
• Knowledge of backup, disaster recovery and business continuity practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with a broad range of stakeholders and translating technical concepts into business outcomes.
• Microsoft SQL certifications highly regarded.

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 Level3 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

Always On Availability Groups

SQL scripting

Database design

Backup & Recovery

Performance tuning

Data security

Vendor management

Stakeholder management

Education

Information Technology

Computer Science

Tools

Commvault

Exchange

Microsoft 365

Job description

Hastings Deering (Australia) Ltd is seeking an experienced Senior SQL Database Administrator to join the Information Technology team on a 2 year fixed term full‑time basis, based in our Archerfield office. You will administer and optimise the Microsoft SQL Server environment for stability, performance, security and high availability.

You will monitor health, perform tuning, implement backup/DR plans, support projects, ensure governance and manage external vendors.