Senior Sybase DBA: HA, Migrations & Data Warehouse Expert

Test Triangle Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit seeks a seasoned Sybase DBA to design, implement, and maintain Sybase ASE and IQ databases across Linux/Unix platforms. You will lead performance tuning, capacity planning, and high-availability configurations while performing routine maintenance and security management.

The role requires strong hands-on experience with backup/recovery, data warehousing support, and cross‑platform migrations, including on-prem to cloud.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience delivering large-scale Sybase infrastructure migrations.
• Experience with on-prem to cloud migrations and cross-platform moves.
• Strong skills in performance tuning, maintenance, and capacity planning.
• Experience with high-availability and disaster recovery setups.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Sybase ASE & IQ databases across Linux/Unix.
• Performance tuning, query optimization, index management, and capacity planning.
• Routine maintenance: housekeeping, reorgs, DBCC checks, statistics updates.
• Manage privileges, security configurations, user/role management, auditing.
• Backup and recovery strategies using dump/load, replication, or backup server.
• Maintain terabyte-scale IQ databases and optimize bulk loading (BCP, IQ load utilities, ETL).
• Configure and support high-availability solutions: Replication Server, Warm Standby, etc.
• Support data warehouse workloads, BI, analytics, archival.
• Knowledge of database migrations on-prem to cloud and cross-platform moves.
• Collaborate with developers, applications and infrastructure teams; on-call rotation.
• Experience with outplace migrations and replication server configuration.
• Senior Sybase DBA with 10+ years experience in global, high-availability environments.

Skills

Sybase ASE

Sybase IQ

Performance tuning

Backup & recovery

High availability

Security & auditing

DB migrations

Data warehousing

ETL tools

On-call support

Tools

BCP

IQ Load Utilities

Dump/Load

Job description

Zohorecruit seeks a seasoned Sybase DBA to design, implement, and maintain Sybase ASE and IQ databases across Linux/Unix platforms. You will lead performance tuning, capacity planning, and high-availability configurations while performing routine maintenance and security management.

The role requires strong hands-on experience with backup/recovery, data warehousing support, and cross‑platform migrations, including on-prem to cloud.