• A Bachelor’s 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 as a System and Cloud Administrator (experience in Microsoft license management).
• 2 years of experience managing people in a technical environment.
• 2 years’ experience in participating in on-call rotations, and providing after-hours support in an environment that operates 24/7

Job Description:

• Manages enterprise SQL engineering team, recruiting, and mentoring the members of the team, both technically and for career growth
• Provides technical oversight across systems and architectures, with an emphasis on reliability, architecture, and automation
• Helps to drive the vision for the future of the SQL at the company and reliability of applications and services running in the Cloud and on premises.
• Provides a holistic view of the production environment for both technology and business management, working closely as a trusted partner with development team leaders
• Performs controlled resolution of incidents and problems including prioritization and escalation to relevant groups when appropriate, root cause analysis of all problems with follow-through to resolution
• Communicates status to development teams, ensuring outstanding issues are tracked to closure, both for remediation and long-term resolution
• Consults with the primary stakeholders of the application in conjunction with development leaders and technical leads to better understand the objectives of the development teams
• Requires awareness of audit and compliance related issues
• Contributes to formulation of strategies for network growth and stability
• Champion initiatives to enable high availability for Business-As-Usual which includes monitoring, failover and resiliency
• Ability to handle incidents, problems and change at a global enterprise level
• Responsible for delivery of results which directly impacts the development teams
• Servers (on-premise and cloud)
• 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.

Security:

• 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

Operating Systems:

• 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
• Mange 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

Salary offer: Negotiable

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