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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Tech Specialist - SQL Administrator - **Company:** The Scc - **Location:** Birmingham, UK (Remote available) - **Salary:** £45,000.0 - £52,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Databases, Database Security, Disaster Recovery, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Azure, Performance Tuning, SQL Databases, System Availability, Amazon Relational Database Service, Performance Monitor, Cloud Migration - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=799624fba29efdf2 ## About the Role * Advanced, hands-on DBA expertise across multiple versions of SQL Server technologies including installation, configuration, and administration * Expert knowledge of SQL Server architecture, administration and troubleshooting. * Deep understanding of SQL Server architecture, internals, and query execution / optimisation * Proven experience administering and supporting cloud-hosted SQL platforms: Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and/or AWS RDS/EC2 for SQL Server * Strong expertise across SQL Server high availability, disaster recovery, database security and replication technologies. * Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and performance tuning skills, including execution plan analysis, indexing strategy and wait statistics. * Experience working within ITIL-based service management environments. * Strong communication, stakeholder management and technical documentation skills. * Strong analytical, structured, and methodical approach to complex, ambiguous problems, including major incident and root-cause analysis * Demonstrated commitment to Quality Standards, security best practice, and continuous improvement * Commitment to continuous improvement, operational excellence and customer-focused service delivery. ## Description As a SQL Server DBA, you will provide technical expertise in delivering, supporting and continuously improving SCC's enterprise SQL Server DBA services supporting business-critical applications for its customers. Working closely with Infrastructure, Application, Security and Project teams, you will own the end-to-end support around health, performance, security, and availability of critical database platforms, while contributing to modernisation, automation and operational excellence initiatives., * Own the architecture, tuning, performance, and support strategy for enterprise MS SQL Server infrastructure, on-premises and in the cloud (Azure SQL Database/Managed Instance, SQL Server on Azure) * Lead the technical resolution of complex SQL Server incidents, service requests and problem investigations, ensuring effective root cause analysis and permanent resolution. * Lead SQL Server lifecycle activities, including implementation, configuration, upgrades, patching, migrations, maintenance and decommissioning. * Lead and/or ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE in IT and cloud migration projects across analysis, design, testing, environment preparation, cutover, and change impact analysis * Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives - assessing, planning, and executing lift-and-shift, re-platforming, or re-architecting of SQL Server workloads to Azure * Ensure SQL Server platforms consistently meet agreed service levels for availability, resilience, performance, recoverability and security. * Design, implement and continuously improve SQL Server high availability, disaster recovery, replication and database security solutions. * Drive automation, standardisation and operational excellence across SQL Server services. * Define, maintain, and continuously improve SQL Server standards, operational procedures and technical documentation. * Design, review, and continuously improve daily/weekly/monthly health check frameworks, proactive monitoring, and alerting across on-prem and cloud-hosted databases Collaborate with Infrastructure, Backup, Monitoring, Application, Security and Project teams to deliver scalable, resilient and secure SQL Server services. * ## Related Videos - [Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1146-fault-tolerance-and-consistency-at-scale-harnessing-the-power-of-distributed-sql-databases) - [Hacking MSSQL on Cloud. 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