SQL Database Administrator - Financial Services

Sterlings are currently partnered with a Financial Services Company who are currently seeking a Database Support Engineer to join their EMEA Technology team. The team drives support for the Microsoft SQL Server estate, working closely with Application Support and other technology stakeholders. As well as responding to Incident & Request tickets and monitoring alerts, the team ensure all database servers are backed up in a way that meets the companies recovery objectives. From a technical perspective this person will configure SQL Server monitoring tools to minimise false alarms, perform regular patching of SQL Servers, raise and execute change requests and deploy database change scripts provided by third party vendors. The team also look at pro-active solutions so when performance issues arise, determine the most effective way to increase performance including hardware purchases, server configuration changes, or index/query changes. There will also be the opportunity to be involved in migration of database from On-Premise to Cloud technologies like AWS. Key Requirements; Experience in helping build and operate highly available, complex customer facing systems at scale in a 24x7 environment Experience with clustering, disaster recovery and high availability The willingness to look at automating tasks with Ansible or similar tools Experience with Git and Github for code repository would be highly beneficial Knowledge of database security Strong understanding of enterprise monitoring solutions such as Nagios and HP Arcsight Please note the hybrid working week includes 3 days in the office and 2 working from home.