Database Administrator

Overview

Expleo is a trusted partner for your innovation journey. As a global engineering, technology and consulting service provider, we are ideally positioned to help you achieve your ambitions and future-proof your business. With a smart blend of bold thinking and reliable execution, we’re able to fast-track innovation through each step of your value chain.

We are strategically positioned to build value, with a global footprint across 30 countries.We are as global and local as you need us to be, with strong best-in-class pan-European technological centres and unique best-shoring capabilities.

We leverage a network of high value-adding affiliates in consulting and industrial excellence, and leading partners across multiple sectors to provide you with the most comprehensive services and solutions in an ever-changing environment.

Responsibilities

Database Administration & Engineering • Provide full, all-round administration of SQL Server across on-premises VMware and Azure Cloud environments. • Install, configure, patch and maintain SQL Server instances and databases. • Automate most repetitive work. • Develop, review and optimise stored procedures, queries and indexes; resolve performance issues where required. • Manage backup, restore, security and access controls, and database health in line with client standards. • Act as a technical escalation point within the team, working with vendors when issues go beyond internal support.

Daily Operations, Monitoring & Reliability • Complete the morning run of production checks: system health, overnight jobs/batches, monitoring and alert review. • Proactively monitor database platforms with tools such as Redgate (SQL Monitor) and Azure Monitor and refine alerting and thresholds. • Take part in daily cross-team stand-ups and track work through ADO boards.

Service Management & Governance • Handle work raised through ITSM (incidents, BAU tasks and service requests) and carry it through to delivery in ADO. • Own incidents as the DRI: triage, resolve, run RCA and blameless post-mortems, and feed problem records back to development. • Automate alert management. • Manage and resolve database incidents, communicating clearly with stakeholders until closure. • Raise, document and implement changes following client governance, including presenting at the Change Advisory Board (CAB). • Follow data protection controls for PII data, including taking part in DPIA (Data Protection Impact assessment) processes. • Communicate clearly and promptly with technical and business stakeholders throughout incidents and changes.

Automation & Continuous Improvement • Find and remove repetitive toil using PowerShell/dbatools, T-SQL, SQL Agent/Elastic Jobs and ADO pipelines. • Build runbooks and self-healing remediation for recurring alerts. • Bring database change into CI/CD (Redgate / SSDT) with release validation.

Projects & Data Integration • Support project work alongside BAU as needed, in line with the client change portfolio and roadmap. • Support data flows for the newly introduced Dynamics case and claims process, including Azure based pipelines built with Azure Data Factory. • Help with Azure Synapse, ETL and batch processing where relevant. • Advise on design for reliability, cost and security for new or changing database workloads, including moves from VMware to Azure.

Security & Data Protection • Handle PII data in line with client data protection controls and take part in DPIA processes. • Apply least-privilege, auditing and encryption standards across both estates.

Documentation & Knowledge Management • Produce and maintain clear, accurate documentation, runbooks, procedures and provisioning records in Confluence. • Keep configuration, provisioning and operational records up to date to support knowledge sharing and continuity.

Essential skills

• Strong, hands-on experience as a SQL Server DBA covering administration, configuration and performance tuning.
• SQL Server experience in both VMware-virtualised and Azure Cloud environments (e.g. Azure SQL / SQL on Azure VMs).
• HA/DR expertise: Always On AGs, FCIs, log shipping, geo-replication, and backup/restore testing.
• Practical understanding of SRE principles: SLIs/SLOs, toil reduction, RCA and post-incident review.
• Good T-SQL skills, including writing, troubleshooting and optimising stored procedures.
• Scripting and automation skills (PowerShell/dbatools, T-SQL, Python).
• Experience working with ITSM processes: incident, service request and change management,
• including CAB.
• Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) boards for task tracking and delivery.
• Good documentation skills (e.g. Confluence).
• Excellent communication skills, with confidence managing incidents and changes with technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience handling sensitive or PII data and following data protection controls (GDPR, DPIA).

Desired skills

• Note: Azure and data integration skills are secondary to the core SQL Server DBA skill set.
• Redgate tooling (SQL Monitor, SQL Change Automation / Flyway) and Azure Monitor / Log Analytics.
• Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and general ETL/batch experience.
• Microsoft Dynamics data flows and integrations.
• Database CI/CD with ADO pipelines; Infrastructure as Code (Bicep/Terraform) exposure.
• Azure cost optimisation (FinOps) for data platforms.
• Certifications: Microsoft Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300), Azure Administrator (AZ104), VMware VCP, ITIL Foundation, SRE Foundation.