SQL Database Administrator (DBA) - 12Mth Contract - Melbourne
Job Description
SQL Database Administrator (DBA) - 12Mth Contract - Melbourne \n
SQL Database Administrator (DBA) - 12 Month+ Contract
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Melbourne preferred | Flexible location | Financial Services | Immediate Start | 12 months+
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We are looking for an experienced SQL Database Administrator (DBA) to join a major financial services client as part of their Application Support Managed Services team.
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This is a long-term contract opportunity (12 months+) , ideally Melbourne-based, although we're flexible to consider strong candidates in other Australian locations.
The Role \n
You'll be supporting business-critical SQL Server environments , with a strong focus on production support, database performance, deployments, patching, security and disaster recovery.
Key Skills & Experience \n
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- Strong hands-on experience as a SQL Server DBA , ideally supporting large-scale, business-critical production environments. \n
- Experience with SQL Server patching, upgrades, database failover and failback . \n
- Strong capability across incident triage, troubleshooting and database performance investigation/tuning . \n
- Experience supporting production deployments, application releases and after-hours changes . \n
- Strong understanding of Disaster Recovery (DR) processes, testing and production support. \n
- Experience with user-access provisioning, SQL account management and password rotation . \n
- Hands-on experience with database and environment refreshes . \n
- Knowledge of certificate management, encryption and key rotation . \n
- Experience with database monitoring, compliance reporting and vulnerability remediation . \n
- Exposure to database tooling such as Delphix, Redgate, SQL Monitor, DDM and Erwin , including administration and upgrades. \n
- Comfortable working within structured production support / managed services environments . \n
- Strong communication skills and ability to work closely with engineering, application and business teams. \n
Support Requirements \n
The role will provide business-hours coverage across early and late shifts , alongside participation in a 24x7 on-call roster . Time in lieu will be provided for applicable after-hours support.
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