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 settings, with a strong focus on production support, database performance, deployments, patching, security and disaster recovery.

Key Skills & Experience
Robust 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.

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