Senior SQL Database Engineer

Are you a SQL focused Database Engineer looking to join a hugely successful infrastructure team within one of our flagship UK accounts?

As a SQL Database Engineer, you would be covering a large enterprise database estate of over 200 instances, working in modern agile ways, tackling BAU and projects head on as a collective, whilst maintaining a relaxed and fun environment to work in.

Automation and AI will be at the heart of all your work, as you look to automate tasks within the production environments bringing better ways of working and improving delivery speed of manual tasks.

You will be given fantastic development and training opportunities within the team, with exposure to numerous training platforms, to support wider infrastructure alongside SQL, Oracle and MongoDB database technologies across the infrastructure estate, which will open a variety of doors for your chosen career path, working for a top ten Great Place to Work organisation.

What you'll be doing:

Implement SQL Database environments and support resolution of issues/requests

Attend Automation workshops and engage around Database technology

Help create Ansible Tower playbooks for Automation

Maintain database backups for use in the event of system failure

Capacity plan, advise and implement additional database storage and ensuring database designs provide for Disaster Recovery Planning

Install and configure the database environment and software, and ensure environments are kept secure and up-to-date with regular patching/upgrades

What you’ll bring:

Experience in monitoring, supporting and troubleshooting daily operations in an Microsoft SQL Server DBA environment and solid knowledge of database security

principles

Good experience with Microsoft Server Operating Systems (2012 and upwards)

Knowledge of server scripting e.g. Unix Shell Scripting, Windows Powershell or batch files

Demonstrated experience in database administration, including backups, maintenance, performance monitoring, patching and troubleshooting.

Proficiency in SQL development and scripting tools, with a strong understanding of Microsoft SQL Server Stack (SSMS, SSAS, SSIS & SSRS).

Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server internals and core database functionality, including indexes, schemas, and triggers

It would be great if you had:

Experience/knowledge of MongoDB, Oracle, Linux OS distributions or PostgreSQL

ITIL Certifications

Understanding and working experience with VMware environments

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type:

Full-time, permanent

Location:

Stevenage or Portsmouth, hybrid. 3 days on-site each week

Security Clearance Level:

SC

Internal Recruiter:

Rebecca

Salary:

£45,000 - £55,000 dependent on experience

Benefits:

25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.