Senior Engineer – Microsoft SQL Server Database Administration (Fixed Term)
Millennium IT ESP
AI assistant
Job Description
Job Description
- Administer production and non-production Microsoft SQL Server environments, including instance configuration, database settings, recovery models, and routine maintenance
- Manage and monitor Always On Availability Groups and supporting Windows Server Failover Clustering infrastructure
- Monitor database synchronisation, investigate availability issues, and coordinate planned failovers and recovery activities
- Administer and troubleshoot SQL Server transactional replication and log shipping, resolving agent failures, synchronisation delays, and data delivery issues
- Manage full, differential, and transaction log backups, investigate backup failures, and perform database restores and recovery validation
- Coordinate SQL Server backup and recovery activities using enterprise backup platforms, including Commvault
- Perform daily database health checks covering availability, SQL