Senior SQL DBA Circa £38K + Bonus + Benefits (Manchester)

Senior SQL DBA Circa £38K + Bonus + BenefitsLocation: ManchesterDescription: Senior SQL Server DBA – Database Administrator, Manchester. We are currently looking for a skilled Senior SQL Server DBA for a well established growing organisation based in the Manchester area. The role is to develop and proactively manage and maintain the SQL Server environment, ensuring its health, security, availability, performance and manageability at all times. Ensure data integrity across all servers and databases. Core Skill Set: Responsibilities: • Analysis and Design - responsible for providing the analysis and design of database solutions. • Maintenance and Administration – responsible for all aspects of database administration and maintenance. • Programming – responsible for assisting developers with database development in adherence with SQL standards. • Unit Testing – responsible for testing their own code and, when required, their colleagues code at a unit test level. • Release and Change – responsible for the roll-out of database changes in accordance with formalised change management procedures. • Data Transformation and Migration – responsible for building data transformation and migration packages. • Documentation – responsible for commenting their code and where required producing formal documentation to accompany a piece of work. • Investigation and Troubleshooting - responsible for investigating and troubleshooting all database related issues including performance management. • Peer reviewing – responsible for assessing the work produced by the development teams. • Backup Strategy – responsible for checking the backups performing backups/restores for developers on the Test/Development environments. Essential skills: • Capable of organising, accessing and reporting on data from a business perspective. • Expertise with SQL Server 2000,2005 and 2008 (R1 64Bit) T-SQL & MS SQL Server Reporting Services. • Experience of some of: SSIS, DTS, replication, clustering, DB Mirroring, disaster recovery, and SSAS would be desirable. • Good understanding of Microsoft networking and Server technologies, including Windows Server and SQL Server. In addition, the following experience would be beneficial: • Progressive approach • Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing • Offshore Team Engagement • Staff duties (mentor/project lead etc) • SQL 2008 R1 64Bit • Replication • Security • Performance Tuning • Virtualisation

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