Windows Server Infrastructure Engineer (SQL Server, VMware)

CV-Library • Contract, Temporary • Warwickshire, United Kingdom • £55k - £60k / year • 3w ago

SQL Database Infrastructure Engineer

12 Month FTC

£55,000 - £60,000 PA, Plus 17.5% Bonus & Fantastic Benefits Package

Location: Hybrid working options available - Some travel to Warwickshire as required - Candidates UK wide can be considered

Are you an experienced Infrastructure Professional with a strong background in Windows servers and SQL Server?

A superb Fixed Term Contract opportunity has become available with our leading financial services client to provide technical ownership of the Database Estate, maintain its stability, and ensure secure and robust solutions.

As a highly accomplished Microsoft Wintel Server SME, your key duties will include -

Provide technical advisory support for projects and respond to database related P1, P2 and P3 incidents. Review and approve change requests across the database estate, assess potential impacts, and communicate detailed reviews to stakeholders. Assess database performance, recommend improvements, define guardrails and build standards, and ensure third party providers comply. Evaluate and advise on consolidation opportunities and cost savings across the database environment. Represent the team on the Change Advisory Board (CAB) to evaluate, prioritise, approve or reject changes to the Network infrastructure. Collaborate with external IT partners and vendors to drive service improvements.The successful candidate will have the following experience -

Strong hands-on experience installing, configuring and troubleshooting Microsoft Windows Servers. Strong practical knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server installation, configuration and troubleshooting across different versions. Experience of SQL Server migrations, upgrades and moving applications or workloads between environments. Practical experience with SQL Server Always On Availability Groups. Good working knowledge of VMware virtualisation. Solid infrastructure knowledge covering Active Directory, DNS and DHCP. Working and demonstrable knowledge and experience of Microsoft SQL. In depth experience in Database migrations and consolidation. Good working experience of Database observability and troubleshooting issues. Exposure to cloud technologies (Azure SQL PaaS). Experience producing clear technical documentation, standards, build guides, policies or guardrails. Ability to take technical ownership, lead investigations and work effectively with internal teams and third-party partners. Strong problem-solving skills and the confidence to propose ideas and lead technical discussions.Desirable Experience -

Working and demonstrable knowledge and experience of Oracle and PostgreSQL. Exposure to Microsoft Azure, Azure SQL services and hybrid-cloud migration activity. Working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID. Basic familiarity with PostgreSQL - you should be comfortable researching, installing and configuring it to recognised best practice when needed.If your profile demonstrates strong and recent experience in the above areas - please submit your application to Jackie Dean at TXP for consideration

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