CBS-Snr Database Infrastructure Engineer

Lorien; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to oversee SQL databases and mentor junior team members. This permanent role offers hybrid working and a competitive salary of £60,000 with a 20% bonus. You will be involved in large-scale integrations and cloud transitions, ensuring operational efficiency and documentation standards.

Benefits

20% bonus

10% employer pension contribution

On-call opportunity

Guaranteed salary increases

Qualifications

• Experience with MS SQL SERVER RDBMS 2019 and higher.
• Experience in Production Infrastructure support for critical 24x7 services.
• Strong focus on troubleshooting and risk mitigation.

Responsibilities

• Subject Matter Expert for MS SQL Server.
• Troubleshooting production incidents to meet operational IT needs.
• Creating and maintaining technical documentation.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Planning

Coaching

Mentoring

Risk Mitigation

Tools

MS SQL Server

AWS EC2

Oracle

Jira

Powershell

MS SSAS

MS SSRS

MS SSIS

Job description

Job Type

Permanent

Location

Coventry, West Midlands

Negotiable

Job Ref

BBBH162606_1747752226

Date Added

May 20th, 2025

Consultant

Senior Database Administrator (Senior SQL DBA)

Permanent

Hybrid working (1-3 days in office a week)

£60,000 Salary+ 20% bonus + other excellent benefits.

Are you a SQL DBA looking for your next exciting opportunity? if so this could be an excellent opportunity for you to work with a large scale financial services organisation who are currently integrating with a large scale bank, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for you to gain experience working on this exciting project. You will take ownership of SQL Databases and guide more junior members on your team.

About the role

• In this role you will be the Subject Matter Expert for MS SQL Server
• You will work on BAU (Business as usual) work.
• You will complete the troubleshooting of and resolution to production incidents or problems to meet operational IT needs and ensure business as usual services are maintained within agreed SLAs.
• In this role you will be responsible for the creation, quality, and governance of technical and standards documentation to maintain a stable and consistent environment.
• The role also includes the provision of assistance and influence to the Architect, Development, and Support teams, to implement and support solutions.
• You'll look for improvement opportunities which will involve coaching, mentoring, planning, supervising, supporting, and training of your team members.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience with MS SQL SERVER RDBMS 2019 and higher, including High availability (AOAG)
• Experience in Production Infrastructure support for critical 24x7 services
• Experienced with Database technologies such as: Microsoft SQL Server (on prem and AWS EC2), Oracle (on UNIX) (desirable) AWS RDS (desirable)
• Strong focus on troubleshooting, planning and mitigating risk
• Identify service improvements and efficiency's
• Proficiency in Jira
• Powershell Scripting
• MS SSAS, SSRS, SSIS

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to work on huge database sets (Large scale integration of 2 large banks)
• Opportunity to work on transition from on-prem to the cloud.
• Competitive salary with guaranteed increases
• 20% bonus & 10% employer pension contribution.
• On call opportunity (opportunity to earn more money)

If the above role sounds like it could be the right one for you, please click through and apply now.

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