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Build the Future of Database Technology!

Sopra Steria is developing a brand-new, next-generation Managed Service, replacing a sophisticated legacy Enterprise infrastructure with a highly automated, scalable, and secure environment. This greenfield project is a unique opportunity to work with pioneering database technologies in a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) environment, supporting key COTS applications such as MECM, WSUS, and SCOM.

We are looking for experienced SQL Database Administrators who thrive in high-performance environments, ensuring databases are resilient, secure, and optimised for scalability.

What you will be doing :

• Working on a pioneering greenfield infrastructure project.
• Bring hands-on experience with pioneering database technology.
• Design from the ground up.
• Training in the latest database innovations.
• Administering, optimising & securing SQL databases in a critically important environment.
• Designing & implementing database high availability (HA) & disaster recovery (DR) solutions.
• Ensuring performance tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting to maintain operational excellence.
• Supporting & maintaining COTS applications reliant on SQL, including MECM, WSUS, and SCOM.
• Applying security best practices to protect database integrity and prevent vulnerabilities.
• Leading backup & recovery strategies to ensure data resilience.

What You’ll Bring :

It would be great if you had :

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type : Permanent

Location : Farnborough

Security Clearance Level : eligibility for SC clearance, must be eligible for DV.

Internal Recruiter : Lee

Salary : £54,000

Benefits : £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Our Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions that bring clients enduring business value across the UK’s Public and Private sectors. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported, delivering exceptional rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most sophisticated safety- and security-critical markets.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Associate

Employment type

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Full-time

Job function

Job function

Information Technology

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IT Services and IT Consulting

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