Senior Database Administrator Ms SQL

**Why work for Brennan?**

At Brennan, we aim to lead, not follow. One of the ways we do this is through an open diverse culture that values performance, where anyone in the team can bring new ideas to the table and see them thrive. Our people are empowered, unique, considerate, supportive, trusting and accepting being the cornerstone of the business. Because of this approach, we have now become the largest Australian owned systems integrator in Australia.

**Brennan offers an excellent remuneration package and benefits including**:

- A strong culture underpinned by values that are truly lived every day.
- An environment that embraces learning and development of all employees.
- Flexibility to work in the way that brings out the best in you.
- The ability to do what you love, in an environment that supports you.
- A focus on health and well-being.

**The Role**:

- Assist the Senior SQL Server DBA in BAU SQL Server administration.
- Assist the Senior SQL Server DBA in ensuring a smooth running of the entire SQL Estate of the organisation.
- Patch and Upgrade SQL Server environments as and when required.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Incident management (Level 4)**
- Prioritise and diagnose incidents according to agreed procedures.
- Investigate causes of incidents and seek resolution.
- Escalate unresolved incidents.
- Facilitate recovery, following resolution of incidents.
- Document and close resolved incidents according to agreed procedures.

**Problem management (Level 4)**
- Initiate and monitor actions to investigate and resolve problems in systems, processes and services.
- Determine problem fixes/remedies.
- Assist with the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures.

**Requirements definition and management (Level 2)**
- Assist in the definition and management of requirements.

**Change Management (Level 4)**
- Assess, Analyse, Develop, documents and implement changes based on requests for change.

**Information content publishing (Level 1)**
- Contribute, under instruction, to publication support activities and support the collation of data.
- Take source material in various proprietary formats and use the publishing process to create content according to appropriate guidelines.

**What skills and experience you bring**:

- Degree or equivalent in Information Technology.
- Related Microsoft Certification.
- A minimum of 2/3 years’ experience in a similar capacity.
- Knowledge and understanding of MS SQL 2019, Azure SQL DB.
- Installation, upgradation, configuration, and management of SQL server.
- Knowledge in SQL Server migrations, including upgradation of SSIS packages.
- Understand SSIS/SSAS/SSRS, configuration and migration of ETL packages is desirable but not essential.
- Experience in HADR techniques in SQL Server, including Log shipping, Clustering, and AOAG.
- Exposure in SQL Server performance tuning techniques.
- Understand SQL Internals, database engine and Optimisation is desirable but not essential.
- Understand the MS SQL Licensing models is desirable but not essential.
- Understand MS Azure (DBAAS, IFAAS, PAAS) is desirable but not essential.
- Understand Microsoft Server OS (2016/2019).
- Understand MS Cluster Technologies.
- Understand Fibre SAN Technology and RAID technology is desirable but not essential.
- Exposure in SolarWinds and COMM Vault is desirable but not essential.
- Knowledge in PowerShell for SQL Server is desirable but not essential.
- Knowledge in Nutanix is desirable but not essential.
- Understand Prince2 and ITIL concepts is desirable but not essential.
- Able to work SL time frame between 11:30 to 22:30.

**Brennan IT** is an equal opportunity employer.