SQL DBA/SQL Sever DBA
Senior SQL Server DBA (Enterprise Scale) | Healthcare Technology | Technical Leadership Position
I'm partnering with a major US healthcare technology organisation that is seeking a Senior SQL Server DBA to operate as a senior technical authority across one of the largest SQL Server estates in the sector.
This is not a production support or ticket-driven DBA role.
The successful individual will play a key role in shaping the future of a highly complex SQL Server environment, driving platform modernisation, improving performance, and providing strategic database leadership across critical business systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead large-scale SQL Server upgrade and migration initiatives
- Own performance tuning and optimisation across high-volume transactional systems
- Design and enhance High Availability, Disaster Recovery, backup and recovery strategies
- Drive database architecture, scalability and capacity planning
- Establish and enforce SQL Server standards, governance and best practices
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex database issues impacting enterprise-wide projects
- Partner with Infrastructure, Application Development and Architecture teams on strategic initiatives
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior DBA resources
- Evaluate and implement new technologies to improve platform reliability and performance
Technical Environment
- SQL Server Enterprise estate spanning ~1,000 database Servers
- Approximately 35TB of SQL Server data
- Systems processing 80,000+ transactions per second
- Large-scale, highly available, business-critical healthcare platforms
- Complex enterprise environment requiring deep expertise in performance, reliability and scalability
Ideal Background
- Extensive experience administering and optimising Microsoft SQL Server environments
- Strong expertise in performance tuning, indexing, query optimisation and execution plans
- Deep understanding of Always On Availability Groups, clustering, replication and HA/DR
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise SQL Server estates
- Strong knowledge of backup, recovery, monitoring and capacity planning
- Ability to operate as a senior technical SME and influence architectural decisions
- Experience working within regulated, highly available environments is highly desirable
This is an opportunity to join an organisation where database infrastructure sits at the heart of the business, giving you the chance to influence strategy, modernise a massive SQL Server estate and solve genuinely complex technical challenges at scale.
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