Senior SQL Server DBA – Azure & Cloud Reliability Lead

DXC Technology Company

New Zealand

On-site

NZD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

DXC Technology in New Zealand is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to maintain, secure, and optimize mission-critical database platforms.

This hands-on role focuses on SQL Server 2022+ and Azure SQL, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and resilience across production environments. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to automation and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

Extensive hands-on SQL Server DBA experience in production.
Strong SQL Server 2022+ expertise.
Experience in Azure SQL environments.
Performance tuning and optimization.
Database security and access management.
Monitoring, health checks, backup, recovery and DR planning.
Troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
Experience with Incident/Problem/Change/Release management processes.
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement.
Calm under pressure; able to make sound decisions.
Commitment to continuous learning and knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities

Ensure production DB services are secure, highly available, recoverable, and performant.
Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve complex database incidents and performance issues.
Manage monitoring, maintenance, backup/recovery, patching, upgrades, and capacity planning.
Develop disaster recovery and business continuity strategies with testing/docs.
Collaborate with application, cloud, infrastructure, and delivery teams to improve reliability.
Drive operational excellence through automation, standards, and documentation.
Contribute scripting and development to optimize database administration activities.
Participate in an on-call roster and assist during priority incidents.