Johannesburg: Team Leader – MS SQL Engineer posted by Staff Unlimited Recruitment Pty Ltd

Our client is seeking a technically strong person with experience managing a team and ideally, would have mentored and managed a small Software and Cloud team in the past.

This position has responsibility for all support aspects of SQL Infrastructure, including integration with development teams and leaders, 3rd party providers, and managing the SQL team. Maintaining, close liaison with various operational, project, development, vendor and product teams, ensuring ongoing service and support can be maintained to defined service levels. This team works in an environment that operates 24/7.

Location: Johannesburg

Job type: Permanent On-site

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage enterprise SQL engineering team, recruiting, and mentoring the members of the team, both technically and for career growth
• Provide technical oversight across systems and architectures, with an emphasis on reliability, architecture, and automation
• Help to drive the vision for the future of the SQL and reliability of applications and services running in the Cloud and on premises.
• Provide a holistic view of the production environment for both technology and business management
• Ensuring outstanding issues are tracked to closure, both for remediation and long-term resolution
• Contribute to formulation of strategies for network growth and stability
• Handle incidents, problems and change at a global enterprise level
• Responsible for delivery of results which directly impacts the development teams
• Management of servers
• Oversee database performance tuning, indexing strategies, and query optimization across environments.
• Ensure that user access to SQL is managed and limited
• Ensure that server data is backed-up as agreed with the appropriate business owner
• Ensure that servers are monitored for performance and uptime
• Architect and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or equivalent).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (DevOps, BI, Cloud, Security) to deliver data-driven solutions.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production database issues, ensuring 24/7 stability and availability.
• Ensure All critical Business databases are replicated at DR.
• Manage software upgrades when licensing provides an upgrade path.
• Third Party access policy
• Perform regular risk assessments
• Address risks identified by risk assessments
• Manage the various device and system logs
• Create and / or regularly update the procedures for data encryption
• Create and / or regularly update the procedures for use of external storage medium
• Create and / or regularly update the procedures for information exchange with external entities.
• Create and / or regularly update the policy and procedures for user access, permitted operations and monitoring of operations
• Ensure all OSs are licensed
• Ensure all OSs are on required patch level
• Ensure all OSs comply with business standards and are IT approved
• Ensure all OSs are monitored by the Network Operator team
• Manage the upgrade of operating systems to newer versions if required
• Capacity Planning
• Create and / or regularly update a capacity management process and procedure
• Regular review of capacity management monitoring results
• Implementation of appropriate actions to address findings of capacity management monitoring

Requirements

• A bachelors degree or Equivalent IT Qualification or Diploma.
• Certifications in SQL Server, Azure Data Engineer, or equivalent.
• Mandatory Microsoft Training and Certifications
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate.
• Microsoft Certified: Data Analyst Associate.
• Experience and product specific training as it relates to the role and technologies in use
• ITIL
• CobIT
• Minimum 5 Years Working Experience
• 2 years of experience managing people in a technical environment.
• 2 years of experience in participating in on-call rotations, and providing after-hours support in an environment that operates 24/7
• 5 years of experience as a System and Cloud Administrator (experience in Microsoft license management).

Skills

• Excellent communication skills
• Solutions driven

Should you meet the above criteria, we invite you to apply directly to the advertisement. Should you not hear back from us within 2 weeks of application, kindly consider your application as unsuccessful