SQL Database Administrator (DBA) – 12 Month Contract

Melbourne preferred | Flexible location | Financial Services | Immediate Start | 12 months

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.

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

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

- Strong hands-on experience as a SQL Server DBA, ideally supporting large-scale, business-critical production environments.

- Experience with SQL Server patching, upgrades, database failover and failback.

- Strong capability across incident triage, troubleshooting and database performance investigation/tuning.

- Experience supporting production deployments, application releases and after-hours changes.

- Strong understanding of Disaster Recovery (DR) processes,



testing and production support.

- Experience with user-access provisioning, SQL account management and password rotation.

- Hands-on experience with database and environment refreshes.

- Knowledge of certificate management, encryption and key rotation.

- Experience with database monitoring, compliance reporting and vulnerability remediation.

- Exposure to database tooling such as Delphix, Redgate, SQL Monitor, DDM and Erwin, including administration and upgrades.

- Comfortable working within structured production support / managed services environments.

- Strong communication skills and ability to work closely with engineering, application and business teams.

Support Requirements

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.

If you're an experienced SQL Server DBA with solid production support skills and you're open to a long-term engagement, please apply for a quick review.

📌 SQL Database Administrator (DBA) - 12Mth Contract - Melbourne (Sydney)
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📍 Sydney