Job Description
Salary: £50,000 - 60,000 per year
Requirements:
- We need experience in a fast-moving IT department at a senior technical level.
- We need prior experience in a similar role within a multi-site, medium to large enterprise.
- We need a deep and demonstrable understanding of SQL.
- We need experience with SQL Server versions, installation, and patching.
- We need experience with high availability solutions, including AlwaysOn availability groups and clustered instances.
- We need experience with ETL tools and techniques.
- We need experience tuning SQL queries and stored procedures for performance.
- We need experience with monitoring and alerting.
- We need a basic understanding of ITIL principles and how they support effective IT operations.
Responsibilities:
- We administer and manage our SQL Server estate, ensuring reliability, integrity, security, and performance.
- We configure, maintain, optimise, and upgrade our databases and related systems.
- We work with Agile development teams to design, build, optimise, and implement databases for existing and new products.
- We proactively manage the day-to-day operations of our databases and infrastructure.
- We manage SQL servers, including configuration, tuning, backups, and disaster recovery.
- We manage database transitions across environments such as development, test, live, and migrations.
- We ensure our databases are functioning optimally, scalable, and regularly maintained.
- We provide regular reports on database performance and maintenance to our line manager.
- We keep up to date with the Microsoft SQL Server roadmap and support lifecycle.
- We plan upgrades and patching proactively and provide visibility of lifecycle risk.
- We understand our departments strategic objectives and support the delivery of related initiatives.
Technologies:
- ETL
- Support
- ITIL
- SQL
- Security
More:
We are recruiting for a SQL DBA to join our team in Liverpool, with one day working from home. This is a permanent role offering a salary of up to £60,000. You will join an environment where we take a proactive approach to best practice and emerging technologies, supporting the reliability and performance of our SQL Server estate across the organisation.
last updated 21 week of 2026
