Database Administrator
Expleo Group
Remoto
We are strategically positioned to build value, with a global footprint across 30 countries.
We are as global and local as you need us to be, with strong best-in-class pan-European technological centres and unique best-shoring capabilities.
We leverage a network of high value-adding affiliates in consulting and industrial excellence, and leading partners across multiple sectors to provide you with the most comprehensive services and solutions in an ever-changing environment.
Responsibilities
Database Administration & Engineering
- Provide full, all-round administration of SQL Server across on-premises VMware and Azure Cloud environments.
- Install, configure, patch and maintain SQL Server instances and databases.
- Automate most repetitive work.
- Develop, review and optimise stored procedures, queries and indexes; resolve performance issues where required.
- Manage backup, restore, security and access controls, and database health in line with client standards.
- Act as a technical escalation point within the team, working with vendors when issues go beyond internal support.
- Complete the morning run of production checks: system health, overnight jobs/batches, monitoring and alert review.
- Proactively monitor database platforms with tools such as Redgate (SQL Monitor) and Azure Monitor and refine alerting and thresholds.
- Take part in daily cross-team stand-ups and track work through ADO boards.
- Handle work raised through ITSM (incidents, BAU tasks and service requests) and carry it through to delivery in ADO.
- Own incidents as the DRI: triage, resolve, run RCA and blameless post-mortems, and feed problem records back to development.
- Automate alert management.
- Manage and resolve database incidents, communicating clearly with stakeholders until closure.
- Raise, document and implement changes following client governance, including presenting at the Change Advisory Board (CAB).
- Follow data protection controls for PII data, including taking part in DPIA (Data Protection Impact assessment) processes.
- Communicate clearly and promptly with technical and business stakeholders throughout incidents and changes.
- Find and remove repetitive toil using PowerShell/dbatools, T-SQL, SQL Agent/Elastic Jobs and ADO pipelines.
- Build runbooks and self-healing remediation for recurring alerts.
- Bring database change into CI/CD (Redgate / SSDT) with release validation.
- Support project work alongside BAU as needed, in line with the client change portfolio and roadmap.
- Support data flows for the newly introduced Dynamics case and claims process, including Azure based pipelines built with Azure Data Factory.
- Help with Azure Synapse, ETL and batch processing where relevant.
- Advise on design for reliability, cost and security for new or changing database workloads, including moves from VMware to Azure.
- Handle PII data in line with client data protection controls and take part in DPIA processes.
- Apply least-privilege, auditing and encryption standards across both estates.
- Produce and maintain clear, accurate documentation, runbooks, procedures and provisioning records in Confluence.
- Keep configuration, provisioning and operational records up to date to support knowledge sharing and continuity.
- Strong, hands-on experience as a SQL Server DBA covering administration, configuration and performance tuning.
- SQL Server experience in both VMware-virtualised and Azure Cloud environments (e.g. Azure SQL / SQL on Azure VMs).
- HA/DR expertise: Always On AGs, FCIs, log shipping, geo-replication, and backup/restore testing.
- Practical understanding of SRE principles: SLIs/SLOs, toil reduction, RCA and post-incident review.
- Good T-SQL skills, including writing, troubleshooting and optimising stored procedures.
- Scripting and automation skills (PowerShell/dbatools, T-SQL, Python).
- Experience working with ITSM processes: incident, service request and change management,
- including CAB.
- Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) boards for task tracking and delivery.
- Good documentation skills (e.g. Confluence).
- Excellent communication skills, with confidence managing incidents and changes with technical and business stakeholders.
- Experience handling sensitive or PII data and following data protection controls (GDPR, DPIA).
- Note: Azure and data integration skills are secondary to the core SQL Server DBA skill set.
- Redgate tooling (SQL Monitor, SQL Change Automation / Flyway) and Azure Monitor / Log Analytics.
- Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and general ETL/batch experience.
- Microsoft Dynamics data flows and integrations.
- Database CI/CD with ADO pipelines; Infrastructure as Code (Bicep/Terraform) exposure.
- Azure cost optimisation (FinOps) for data platforms.
- Certifications: Microsoft Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300), Azure Administrator (AZ104), VMware VCP, ITIL Foundation, SRE Foundation.