Description
Company
Global commodities trading company based in London seek SQL DBA for 3-6 months
Role objective
The key tasks of this role are to maintain flawless day to day operations of databases and enable the expansion of the business by supporting projects and the production environment by installing, administering and managing development and production databases.
Duties & Responsibilities
Ensure day-to-day running of SQL Server estate through monitoring of disk space, backups, log shipping, database mirroring, clustering, availability groups and troubleshooting failed jobs
Proactive performance tuning and optimization of SQL server estate
Monitoring of storage and capacity planning
Root cause analysis
Ensure SQL Server estate is kept up to date with security patches and latest updates
Ensuring DEV/QA/UAT environments are correctly refreshed when requested
Regularly check restores of backups
Ensure relevant documentation is comprehensive and up-to-date
Ensure proper security of all company databases and database Servers
Participate in the support rota including on-call availability
Work closely with the Service Desk in order to ensure all incidents are dealt with within expected SLOs and documented properly
Skills & Competencies
Proven track record in Database administration of SQL Server with a particular focus on performance tuning OLTP & OLAP databases
Experience working with clustering, availability groups and database mirroring
A thorough understanding of Windows Server R2, virtualisation and SANs
Business intelligence awareness through experience in reporting services, integration services and analysis services
If you believe you fit the bill please forward your details to me or call me for me information