SQL DBA Engineer (Remote, GB)

Visa Hunt; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme

Private medical cover

Income Protection

Life Assurance

25 days paid leave + holidays

Flex benefits program

Job summary

Atos is seeking a SQL Specialist to manage large scale SQL Server environments, ensuring security, performance and reliability across customer infrastructure projects. You will lead installation, patching, disaster recovery planning and ongoing maintenance in collaboration with application teams.

The role requires strong expertise in SQL Server 2008–2019, experience with clustering, replication, backups, and SSIS. Excellent communication and documentation are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Microsoft SQL Server project experience including infrastructure deployment.
• Strong knowledge of SQL Server versions from 2008 to 2019.
• Experience patching and upgrading SQL databases.
• Minimum 3 years of production SQL Server administration.
• Proficient in database backup, recovery and disaster recovery.
• Experience with replication setup and maintenance.
• SSIS / DTS experience and SQL reporting tools.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide SQL Server support, implementation and deployment.
• Investigate problems to a highly technical standard and resolve.
• Plan and execute changes to software/hardware with customers.
• Develop technical specifications to meet customer needs.
• Install and test SQL Server components with application providers.
• Contribute to new/modified systems with clients to realize benefits.
• Maintain standard infrastructure planning and installation methodologies.
• Prepare systems documentation per Atos processes and standards.

Skills

Microsoft SQL

SQL Performance

Failover Clustering

Replication

SSIS / DTS

Backup & Recovery

SQL Versions 2005-2019

Windows Server

Monitoring Tools

Automation

Education

MCSE Certification

Tools

SQL Server Management Studio

SQL Server Reporting Services

SSMS

Oracle

DB2 LUW

Windows Server

Job description

Atos is the Atos Group brand dedicated to AI-powered, secure, end-to-end digital services. Atos designs, develops, and operates critical digital environments that drive performance, resilience and sovereignty, helping public and private organizations worldwide retain control over their data and infrastructures, while meeting regulatory requirements.

With more than 54,000 employees serving over 4,500 clients across 54 countries, Atos helps modernize core IT systems, accelerate cloud and data transformation, strengthen cybersecurity, and deliver secure digital workplace environments to support its clients, its employees and society. Atos also provides consulting and advisory services through its Atos Amplify brand. A trusted partner in operating complex and mission-critical environments, Atos supports organizations across highly regulated and sovereign contexts.

About Atos Group

Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 56,000 employees and annual revenue of c. €7.2 billion (at the go-forward perimeter), operating in 54 countries under two brands - Atos for services and Eviden for products and systems. European number one in cybersecurity and a leader in cloud, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos Group is listed on Euronext Paris.

As a SQL Specialist you will be involved with large scale customer infrastructure transition and transformation projects relating to specific customer infrastructure systems and associated software, ensuring that the service provided to Atos customers meets the requirements set out in the project definition.

Responsibilities will include:

• Microsoft SQL Server support, implementation and deployment
• Thoroughly investigate and resolve problems to a highly technical standard
• Plan and undertake changes to software/hardware as agreed with the customer
• Assess user requirements and formulate technical specifications that are cost effective and accurately meet the identified needs of the customer
• Install and test SQL Server software and associated products in conjunction with application providers to ensure that each element of a project performs to specification
• Contribute to the implementation of new and modified systems in conjunction with clients to achieve identified benefits
• Implement and maintain a standard methodology for the planning and installation of infrastructure
• Prepare and produce systems documentation in accordance with current Atos processes and standards
• Ensure that all development and maintenance work is undertaken in accordance with ITIL change management process Effectively monitor specific infrastructure services and identify improvements and preventative maintenance interventions.

BAU Support DBA:

DBA will be responsible for the development and sustainment of the SQL Server Warehouse, ensuring its operational readiness (security, health and performance), executing data loads, and performing data modelling in support of multiple development teams. The data warehouse supports an enterprise application suite of program management tools. Must be capable of working independently and collaboratively.

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring the SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008R2, 2012,2014,2016,2017.
• Applying SQL Server patches and hot fixes.
• Verifying and resolving the SQL Server Blocking issues and finding and fixing the root cause.
• Resolving the Disk space issues and finding the root cause and permanent fixes.
• Expertise in Database backup, Recovery, Restoration and Disaster Recovery Plans.
• Restoring the Databases from Production to test environment and vice versa.
• User Management activities like adding the user and managing the permissions.
• Creating and scheduling the jobs and troubleshooting the failed jobs.
• Performance tuning activities like verifying the slow running queries and identifying missing indexes and usage of statistics.
• Usage of DBCC commands and DMV’s for troubleshooting.
• Executing the deploying the scripts in prod environment.
• Configuring, monitoring and troubleshooting the REPLICATION and DR activities

Essential / Minimum Criteria:

• Previous Microsoft SQL Server project experience including infrastructure implementation and deployment
• Excellent understanding of SQL infrastructures (including 2008 - 2019)
• Well established experience in patching and upgrading SQL versions
• Preferably MCSE certified
• Minimum 3 years of parallel experience in setting up and maintaining production Microsoft SQL Server instances.
• Strong knowledge of SQL Database Performance Tuning
• Strong knowledge in installing/managing SQL failover clustering, configuring log shipping and mirroring
• Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery technologies, with experience of implementing and maintenance
• Good experience in replication set up and DTS/SSIS
• Configuration of database monitoring using SQL native or third-party software
• Experience of large scale infrastructure transition and transformation projects
• Installation and configuration of SQL Reporting Services, SQL Management Studio and other software /tools
• Set up database backup and perform database recovery when required
• DB Upgrade, DB migrations and patching of existing SQL databases
• Optimize SQL Database performance and guide application team to tune SQL queries
• Automation of database related activities

Excellent communication skills

Strong documentation skills

Customer and delivery focused

Desirable Criteria:

• Microsoft Certification
• Knowledge of Oracle, and DB2 LUW database technologies
• Knowledge of Windows Server configuration

Benefits:

• Pension Scheme - contributions matched up to 10%
• Private medical cover
• Income Protection
• Life Assurance
• 25 days paid leave + National Holidays
• Flex benefits program

Please note eligibility for SC clearance is essential for this role.

As a Disability Confident employer, we encourage applications from all applicants, especially, differently abled applicants. We aim to ensure that those who meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. We are committed and willing to making reasonable adjustments to the application and assessment process to accommodate your needs.

We are a care leaver friendly employer.

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