Senior SQL Server DBA: HA/DR, Performance & Automation

Hire Resolve; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Hire Resolve is seeking a highly experienced Senior SQL Server DBA to own mission-critical SQL Server platforms across production, UAT, development and disaster recovery environments in Johannesburg. This hands-on role focuses on performance, high availability, security, backup and automation to keep environments stable and recoverable.

The successful candidate will work closely with developers and infrastructure teams, providing technical guidance and mentoring to junior members, while managing

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Microsoft SQL Server administration in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with SQL Server performance tuning and optimisation.
• Advanced T-SQL skills including stored procedures, triggers, indexing and execution plans.
• Experience with HA/DR solutions such as Always On and Failover Clustering.
• Experience with backups, restores and point-in-time recovery.
• Ability to work with developers and infrastructure teams; strong problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, maintain, patch and upgrade SQL Server environments.
• Monitor health, performance, capacity, backups and growth.
• Troubleshoot production incidents including blocking and deadlocks.
• Design and maintain HA/DR solutions.
• Manage Always On, Failover Clustering, Replication and Log Shipping.
• Develop robust backup, restore and PITR strategies.
• Perform DR testing and capacity planning.
• Assist developers with query tuning, indexing and execution plans.

Skills

SQL Server administration

Performance tuning

T-SQL expertise

Backups & recovery

HA/DR

Always On / Clustering / Replication /

Security & encryption (TDE)

Certificates & key management

Partitioning / large databases

Windows Server / Active Directory

Troubleshooting

Communication & collaboration

Tools

PowerShell

Job description

Hire Resolve is seeking a highly experienced Senior SQL Server DBA to own mission-critical SQL Server platforms across production, UAT, development and disaster recovery environments in Johannesburg. This hands-on role focuses on performance, high availability, security, backup and automation to keep environments stable and recoverable.

The successful candidate will work closely with developers and infrastructure teams, providing technical guidance and mentoring to junior members, while managing