Azure-Driven SQL Database Administrator - Hybrid Role

Castle Trust Bank; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance bonus

Private healthcare

25 days holiday + buy/sell 5

Volunteering day

Job summary

Castle Trust Bank in Basingstoke is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to support the reliability, security and performance of our database estate. You will monitor health, optimise performance, manage backup and recovery, and implement controlled changes for roughly 60 databases across 16 SQL Servers.

Working with the Lead Data Engineer and partner DBAs, you will contribute to Azure services adoption, automation and deployment best practices.

Qualifications

• Proven experience administering business-critical relational databases, including Microsoft SQL Server.
• Strong knowledge of database performance monitoring, tuning and optimisation.
• Strong knowledge of backup, restore, replication and disaster recovery processes.
• Experience investigating database issues using native and third-party monitoring tools.
• Scripting and automation experience, ideally using PowerShell.
• Windows Server and Active Directory environments understanding.
• Experience delivering changes through structured change management and deployment processes, ideally using Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the performance, availability and security of our Microsoft SQL Server estate, including monitoring, performance tuning, capacity management and access controls.
• Delivering database changes, patching and security updates through established change and release processes.
• Maintaining backup, restore and disaster recovery processes, including supporting regular recovery testing.
• Resolving incidents, addressing root causes and participating in the on-call rota where required.
• Driving continuous improvement through automation, source control, documentation and operational best practice.

Skills

Microsoft SQL Server

Azure

PowerShell

Monitoring & tuning

Disaster recovery

Incident management

Communication

Education

SQL Server / Azure certification

Tools

SSMS

Azure DevOps

Monitoring tools

Job description

Castle Trust Bank in Basingstoke is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to support the reliability, security and performance of our database estate. You will monitor health, optimise performance, manage backup and recovery, and implement controlled changes for roughly 60 databases across 16 SQL Servers.

Working with the Lead Data Engineer and partner DBAs, you will contribute to Azure services adoption, automation and deployment best practices.