SQL Database Administrator

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Active SC Clearance is mandatory.
• Experience in a Critical National Infrastructure environment.
• Strong commercial experience administering Microsoft SQL Server environments.
• Experience working with SQL Server 2016 through to SQL Server 2025.
• Excellent knowledge of Always On Availability Groups, Windows Clustering, and High Availability/Disaster Recovery technologies.
• Experience administering SSRS, SSIS, and SSAS.
• Strong understanding of SQL Server upgrades, migrations, and performance optimisation.
• Experience supporting SQL Server within VMware virtualised environments.
• Knowledge of PowerShell and Power BI.
• Experience working within structured Change Management and Incident Management processes.
• Familiarity with BMC Remedy/Helix or similar ITSM platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, and administer Microsoft SQL Server environments using established standards and best practices.
• Deliver SQL database upgrades, migrations, and transformation activities across multiple environments.
• Perform database backups, restores, and recovery activities to support ongoing projects.
• Carry out quality assurance checks to ensure newly deployed databases meet technical and operational standards.
• Support the retirement and decommissioning of legacy SQL environments.
• Work closely with Infrastructure, Security, and Application teams to deliver successful project outcomes.
• Assist with application and database migrations to new infrastructure, virtual environments, and data centres.

Technologies

• Support
• ITSM
• Power BI
• PowerShell
• SQL
• Security
• SSAS
• SSIS
• VMware
• Windows

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We are seeking an experienced SQL Database Administrator to join a large-scale infrastructure team, supporting critical database transformation and migration projects. You will help deliver secure, resilient SQL environments built to a consistently high standard. This is a 6-month role based in London/remote, with onsite attendance required 50% of the time in Central London.

last updated 30 week of 2026