Position: Database Administrator (DBA)
Company: N-iX
Category: SQL
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**Our client is the leading UK Digital challenger bank for small businesses.** They’ve spent the past 12 years building banking services that are fast, smart, and simple to challenge with the High Street banks. Services that strive to ensure business and personal customers aren’t slowed down but propelled forward. From introducing the first UK prepaid card in 2005 to being the first non-bank to offer a current account, they’ve been ahead of the curve for as long as we’ve been around.
**The role is an exciting opportunity for a DBA** to join our team and work on a number of large-scale projects such as a SQL 2019 migration, whilst also helping the team deliver critical BAU work streams for the team, and will consist of the following:
• Ensure the various SQL jobs and related processes including payments complete and run efficiently, with quality monitoring and alerting to quickly respond and resolve issues
• Backups and Restores tasks for large databases
• Assist team when performance issues arise, determine the most effective way to increase performance including hardware, server configuration changes, or index/query changes
• Providing support in the event of database issue, ensuring the DBA team support a paid-on-call rota, providing backup in the event of a major issue
• Tuning T-SQL queries to improve performance
• Install and configure new SQL Servers
• Assist DBA Team in SQL migration to a newer version of SQL Server
• Understanding with High Availability technologies
• Support complex SQL replication environment
• Support disaster recovery procedures in an effective manner
• Assisting App Support Team on business-critical processes including payment processes and nightly load processes
• Support and execute IT governance and controls with a focus on Data Security to meet GDPR, PCI-DSS, and NIST
• Support release process with development teams
• Assist in document company’s key systems and database environments

**Requirements:**
• Demonstrable knowledge with SQL Server Administration experience (SQL 2012 or above)
• Experience with SQL 2019 will be an advantage
• Advance level SQL DBA and TSQL knowledge
• Experience with backups, restores, and recovery models
• Experience with performance tuning and optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools
• Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL server
• Liaising with developers, applications/operational staff, Project Manager, and other technical staff
• Database monitoring tools, e.g. Redgate
• Familiarity with SQL Integration Services (SSIS) and SQL Reporting Services (SSRS)
• Flexible, team player, “get-it-done” personality
• Ability to organize and plan work independently
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication

**We offer:**
• Flexible working hours
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Best hardware
• A masseur and a corporate doctor
• An inspiring and comfy office
• Healthcare & Sport benefits

**Professional growth:**
• Challenging tasks and innovative projects
• Meetups and events for professional development
• An individual development plan
• Mentorship program

**Fun:**
• Corporate events and outstanding parties
• Exciting team buildings
• Memorable anniversary presents
• A fun zone where you can play video games, foosball, ping pong, and more