Senior SQL Server DBA – Hybrid, High-Impact Data Ops

Australian Securities Exchange; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Australian Securities Exchange in Sydney is seeking a Senior Database Administrator (SQL Server) to join the Hosting Database team within Technology Infrastructure. You will manage business-critical SQL Server environments and contribute to security, availability, and lifecycle management.

You will work in a 24/7 roster, drive automation, and partner across platforms including Oracle and AWS RDS/Aurora. The role offers hybrid working arrangements and the chance to influence data reliability at

Qualifications

• Extensive recent experience supporting Microsoft SQL Server in business-critical environments.
• Strong capability in SQL Server performance tuning, database design, troubleshooting and operational problem management.
• Experience designing, implementing and supporting SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including Always On availability groups and backup and restore strategies

Responsibilities

• Lead incident and problem resolution as part of a 24/7 roster, including remediation, stakeholder communication and root cause analysis
• Manage SQL Server security, availability, performance, recovery, capacity, monitoring and patching across business-critical environments
• Plan and deliver database changes, upgrades and migrations, providing senior technical input into design, standards, operational readiness and lifecycle management
• Maintain operational playbooks, build standards and knowledge artefacts that improve consistency across the database estate
• Apply automation, scripting and infrastructure-as-code practices to improve efficiency, repeatability, compliance and reliability
• Contribute to Oracle Database, Amazon RDS and Aurora administration activities as required, working with platform

Skills

SQL Server

Performance tuning

Incident management

Root cause analysis

Tools

PowerShell

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Australian Securities Exchange in Sydney is seeking a Senior Database Administrator (SQL Server) to join the Hosting Database team within Technology Infrastructure. You will manage business-critical SQL Server environments and contribute to security, availability, and lifecycle management.

You will work in a 24/7 roster, drive automation, and partner across platforms including Oracle and AWS RDS/Aurora. The role offers hybrid working arrangements and the chance to influence data reliability at