Senior Database Administrator

Equiniti is FTSE 250 Company and a global provider of technology-enabled services. We help businesses operate more effectively and connect people with their financial future. Our people and platforms connect businesses with markets, engage customers with their investments and allow organisations to grow and transform.

Equiniti is a company built with strong values at the very core of our offering. Dealing with some of the most successful companies and government agencies in the UK, excellence, integrity, professionalism, partnership, commercial and innovation are therefore at the heart of everything we do. We employ c.5000 people in Europe, India and the US and the average length of service of our employees is 12 years.

EQTek is a technology hub settled in July 2019. From that time their main focus was to create environment for delivering flexible, agile solutions that support the majority of Equiniti products.

The MSSQL Server DBA will be responsible for the implementation, configuration, maintenance, and performance of critical SQL Server RDBMS systems both on premise and in Azure, to ensure the availability and consistent performance of our corporate applications. This is a “hands-on” position requiring solid technical skills, as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills providing architectural guidance to ensure new solutions are designed correctly from the ground up, as well as performing migrations to the cloud environment using Microsoft Azure.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior SQL SERVER DBA - Engineer with strong database administration and engineering skills to join a team of other highly skilled DBAs responsible for managing the SQL Server and Azure SQL database estate. You will be responsible for the day to day support and administration of the full SQL Server technology stack including engineering and all SQL Server database related projects. The role involves working closely with other Infrastructure teams as well as developers and end users.

You will be an excellent DBA with exposure to DevOps aligned methods of automation, with exposure to the latest Open-Source toolsets; Terraform, Grafana and Ansible. As well as administering complex database infrastructure, you will also advise developers on SQL query optimization and help to shape the company's ongoing DevOps and cloud strategy.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the development and sustainment of all elements of SQL Server, ensuring its operational readiness (security, health and performance), executing data loads, and performing data modelling in support of multiple development teams.

The databases maintained support an enterprise application suite of application and management tools. Must be capable of working independently and collaboratively.

The role is based in our Krakow office, there may also be a requirement to participate in a call out rota, and for completing some activities outside of business hours where they may be service affecting.

 

 

The IT Department at Equiniti underpins all Equiniti Group functions across all business divisions and supports all the following areas: management of the business system data including our Disaster Recovery systems; provision and management of new IT infrastructures; support and maintenance for new and existing IT infrastructures; integrity and control of business data held on the IT infrastructure; management of the internal and external e-mail systems; control and support of companywide Internet access; ensuring business data is backed up and securely held off-site; provision of Network security including anti-virus/Spam management; provision and management for business to business connectivity (VPN); provision and control of all desktop / laptops, mobile devices and Telephony service management and change.