As a crucial part of the IT development team the DBA will be responsible for maintaining the company’s database systems (currently MS SQL Server) including back-up, performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring critical events and documentation. You will ideally possess an innovative mindset and be proactive & thorough in your approach.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage multiple databases and assist in capacity planning.
• Monitor, maintain database systems and troubleshoot problems that may arise.
• Maintain data integrity and security (manage roles and permissions of database users).
• Use tools like SQL Profiler for database tuning. Generate traces, execution plans, identify performance issues, deadlocks/contention and resolve them.
• Develop strategies and implement solutions for managing back-ups, restoration and replication.
• Create and manage constraints and indexes.
• Support software developers with database operations including the development of complex SQL, tuning of DML and the creation of stored procedures.
• Proactive housekeeping/archiving and shrinking of databases.
• Manage production, QA and development database environments.
• Create detailed documentation including diagrams of database infrastructure.
• Learn relevant business processes and understand the data flow, criticality and dependencies.
• Effectively coordinate and communicate with all the stakeholders (internal teams and clients).
• Set up and maintain database infrastructure for the company’s BI needs.

Skills and Requirements

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent education and experience.
• Advanced experience in administering Microsoft SQL server databases (SQL Server 2012).
• Extensive experience writing T-SQL and stored procedures and query tuning on high transaction systems.
• Experienced in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS).
• Experienced in ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) development / data integration.
• Sound knowledge of RDBMS concepts, database architecture and SQL/T-SQL.
• Proficient with SQL server profiler for monitoring and troubleshooting database activity and performance.
• Experience in SQL Server Clustering and HA technologies including mirroring, log shipping, failover cluster and various replication technologies would be an advantage.
• MCITP certification will be advantageous.
• Ability to develop procedure documents and maintain detailed database related documents.
• Innovative approach to work, constantly looking to make the system more efficient and upgrade to effective new technologies.

In return, they offer a great working environment with a competitive salary, incremental holiday and pension schemes, childcare vouchers and DIS. As a growing business, they would also look to support your career development.