Senior SQL Server DBA | Hybrid, Resilient Data & Automation

Castle Trust Bank

Basingstoke

Hybrid

GBP 45,000 - 65,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary
Performance bonus
Pension
Life Assurance
25 days’ holiday
Volunteer day
Private healthcare
EAP
Gym discounts
Season ticket travel loans
Inclusive culture

Job summary

Castle Trust Bank in Basingstoke is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to support reliability, security and performance of our database estate across production and non-production environments. You will monitor health, optimise performance, manage backups, and implement changes, while collaborating with engineering teams and an external DBA partner.

Hybrid role with 3 days in the office and 2 at home.

Qualifications

  • Proven experience administering business-critical relational databases, including Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Strong knowledge of database performance monitoring, tuning and optimisation.
  • Experience with backup, restore, replication and disaster recovery processes.
  • Scripting and automation experience, PowerShell preferred.
  • Experience delivering changes through formal change management and release processes.

Responsibilities

  • Support performance, availability and security of SQL Server estate.
  • Deliver database changes, patching and security updates.
  • Maintain backup, restore and disaster recovery processes.
  • Investigate incidents, address root causes and participate in on-call rota.
  • Drive automation and adopt source control and deployment best practices.

Skills

SQL Server
Azure
PowerShell
Monitoring & optimisation
Incident handling
On-call readiness
Documentation

Education

Microsoft SQL Server / Azure certification

Tools

Azure DevOps
Monitoring tools

Job description

Castle Trust Bank in Basingstoke is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to support reliability, security and performance of our database estate across production and non-production environments. You will monitor health, optimise performance, manage backups, and implement changes, while collaborating with engineering teams and an external DBA partner.

Hybrid role with 3 days in the office and 2 at home.

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