Database Administrator - MS SQL

JR United Kingdom; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Database Administrator to join their Cloud Team. This role focuses on delivering cloud-related database services, ensuring high availability and performance of database platforms. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with MSSQL Server and cloud technologies such as AWS, Terraform, and Azure. You will be responsible for incident management, monitoring, and driving automation to improve operational efficiency. If you are passionate about cloud operations and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with MSSQL server and cloud technologies.
• Expertise in observability and incident management processes.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud-related database services and products to internal customers.
• Monitor databases for availability, reliability, security, and performance.

Skills

MSSQL Server

AWS

Terraform

Azure

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08.05.2025

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22.06.2025

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Job Title - DBA SRE

Job Type - Contract - (Inside IR35)

Contract Duration – 6 months (extendable based on Project Extension)

Work Location – UK - Remote

Database Administrator

We are looking for someone with MSSQL server experience with hands on experience in AWS, Terraform and Azure

Role -

• As part of the Cloud Team, the Database Administrator's primary focus is the delivery of cloud related database services and products to internal customers.
• They are responsible for providing end-to-end database support for cloud services through monitoring, incident response, and incident resolution for the Public and Private Cloud Platform environment. They also support incidents affecting hosted database workloads by providing these services to the owning teams who are customers of the database Platforms, in a timely manner.
• They monitor the databases to ensure availability, reliability, security, and performance, responding to incidents and escalating them to the appropriate teams as required to ensure SLAs are met.
• They follow incident, change, release, and problem management processes. Participating and driving root cause analysis on incidents to ensure issues are addressed in a timely manner, using those processes to continually seek to improve the stability of the environment for all customers.
• They are experts in observability, responsible for centralised database platform monitoring and alerting tooling, setting the direction and enabling greater observability for all.
• They seek to use automation to remove repetitive tasks, developing Run books and Playbooks for use across the organisation. They are the experts in Cloud operations in cloud environments, using that expertise to support development teams in taking on more database operations responsibilities and driving DevOps practices to enable the company to efficiently scale cloud workloads.