Hybrid Windows Server, SQL & VMware DB Engineer (12m FTC)

TXP; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fantastic Benefits Package

Job summary

TXP is seeking an experienced SQL Database Infrastructure Engineer to own and maintain the database estate for a financial services client. You will work on Windows Server installations, SQL Server configurations, migrations, and Always On availability across environments.

This fixed-term contract role offers hybrid working with some travel to Warwickshire and UK-wide candidate consideration, a £55k-£60k salary plus 17.5% bonus and a strong benefits package.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience installing, configuring and troubleshooting Microsoft Windows Servers.
• Strong practical knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server installation, configuration and troubleshooting across different versions.
• Experience of SQL Server migrations, upgrades and moving applications or workloads between environments.
• Practical experience with SQL Server Always On Availability Groups.
• Good working knowledge of VMware virtualisation.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical advisory support for projects and respond to database related P1, P2 and P3 incidents.
• Review and approve change requests across the database estate, assess potential impacts, and communicate detailed reviews to stakeholders.
• Assess database performance, recommend improvements, define guardrails and build standards, and ensure third party providers comply.
• Evaluate and advise on consolidation opportunities and cost savings across the database environment.
• Represent the team on the Change Advisory Board (CAB) to evaluate, prioritise, approve or reject changes to the Network infrastructure.
• Collaborate with external IT partners and vendors to drive service improvements.

Skills

Windows Servers

SQL Server

Always On Availability Groups

VMware

Active Directory / DNS / DHCP

SQL Migrations

Documentation

Azure SQL

Tools

PowerShell

SQL Server Management Studio

Azure

Job description

TXP is seeking an experienced SQL Database Infrastructure Engineer to own and maintain the database estate for a financial services client. You will work on Windows Server installations, SQL Server configurations, migrations, and Always On availability across environments.

This fixed-term contract role offers hybrid working with some travel to Warwickshire and UK-wide candidate consideration, a £55k-£60k salary plus 17.5% bonus and a strong benefits package.