SQL Server DBA Job Specification You will have strong experience as a L3 production DBA with very good knowledge of SQL Server 2005, 2008, and 2012. Ideally you will be a dedicated SQL Server DBA (not hybrid SQL / Sybase or SQL / Oracle) to ensure depth of knowledge in the product. Experience of investment banking or equivalent high pressure environment is essential as is previous support of a medium to large SQL Server estate (100+ SQL instances). You must be a good communicator, proactive in attitude, take ownership of tasks and drive them through to completion and be a good team player. In the role you will help support and maintain a large SQL Server estate covering the EMEA region: • SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2012 and 2014 • 600 SQL instances • 7,000+ databases • 600 TB of SAN storage • 400 applications Responsibilities: • Have shared responsibility for backup, recovery and monitoring. • Deal with change requests and end-user queries for the systems that you will be primary DBA for. • Deal with serious and critical production SQL Server issues in a timely manner. • Provide infrastructure, engineering and performance tuning advice to application development teams. • Provide guidance/support to other DBAs. • Cover early (08:00 – 17:00) and late shifts (09:00 – 18:00). • Provide second level on call Mon – Sun outside business hours for one week in approximately eight (first level is provided offshore). Skills (essential): • SQL 2005 / 2008 / 2012 / 2014 • T-SQL coding • Performance tuning • SQL Server version migrations • Clustering • AlwaysOn • Database Mirroring • Replication Skills (desirable): • SSIS • SSRS • Partitoning • Service broker • SAN storage • Visual Basic .NET