Junior SQL Database Administrator

2 months ago


Bristol, United Kingdom Lyons Davidson Solicitors Full time

**Purpose**

The Junior Database Administrator is responsible for assisting the senior SQL DBA in maintaining production database infrastructure.

Typically day to day activities will be supporting database infrastructure including problem solving, working on change, incidents, service improvement and new change projects.

This role demands strong technical skills with a focus to maintain continual uptime for the production environment.

The role will involve support elements and will also involve some aspect of out of hours support in emergencies.

**Key Responsibilities**

The key responsibilities of this role are:

- Support and maintenance of Database Infrastructure
- This includes all Production, UAT and Development environments.
- Rapid response to deal with high severity incidents.
- Pro-active issue detection and resolution as well as service monitoring.
- Service restoration subsequent to unanticipated outages or disruptions.
- Driving root cause analysis and resolution to closure.
- Identification and driving of database related service quality improvements
- Provision of technical support out of hours on a rota basis.
- Resolution of production support issues.
- Automation and process improvement of database activities.

**Experience and Qualifications Required**
- Excellent SQL database administration skills; with the responsibility for the delivery, support and maintenance of high availability environments
- Good practical knowledge of Data Warehousing and experience in Data Migration projects
- Working with software development teams to optimise database structure and querying.
- Use of industry standard BI/MI reporting packages.
- Support of database installation and configuration, monitoring and housekeeping, upgrade and patching, troubleshooting, root cause analysis and performance tuning.

**Personal Skills**
- A good team worker.
- Experience in agile environments
- Ability to manage responsibilities and timescales.
- Experience of working to tight deadlines
- Excellent analytical, problem solving and fastidious approach to key documentation.
- Being flexible
- Ability to pick up new skills quickly.
- Good communication skills
- Calm approach when under pressure.
- Ability to self-manage

**Technical expertise**

1 year of progressive working knowledge of database technologies
- TSQL Database Administration DBA
- Scripting skills (SQL, T/SQL, Powershell)

**Desirable Skills**
- Tableau or Power BI
- Always on availability groups

**Hybrid working**

This role would be based in our Bristol office, with a combination of home and office working.



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