SQL Database Administrator - Bishopsgate

Salary: £41,000 - 69,500 per year

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

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

Technologies

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

More

We are supporting a large-scale infrastructure team on a 6-month SQL Database Administrator contract in London with remote working. The role is based in Central London with onsite presence required 50% of the time. We are delivering critical database transformation and migration projects, and this position plays a key part in ensuring SQL environments are secure, resilient, and built to a consistently high standard.

last updated 30 week of 2026