Azure SQL DBA
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Azure SQL DBA
Regions: Cardiff, England
Location: Wales
Disciplines: Cloud, Infrastructure and Services
Job types: Contract, Inside IR35, Remote Work
Industry: Infrastructure
Salary: £0 per day
Functions: 3rd Line Support, AWS Amazon Web Services, SQL
Seniority: Mid-level, Senior
Technologies: AWS, Azure Data Lake, PostgreSQL, SQL
Job reference: 118604
Role Overview
- We are looking for an experienced SQL Database Administrator with strong AWS and Azure cloud migration experience to support a major database transformation programme.
- The role will focus on migrating on-premise MySQL databases into cloud environments, initially into AWS and eventually transitioning workloads into Microsoft Azure.
- This role sits within a migration-focused satellite team working alongside the infrastructure team.
- The successful candidate will play a key role in risk assessment, migration planning, and execution, ensuring zero downtime migrations where possible while maintaining performance and security standards.
Required Skills & Experience
Essential
- Strong Database Administration experience with MySQL.
- Proven experience delivering database cloud migration projects.
- Hands-on experience with both AWS and Azure cloud platforms.
- Experience migrating on-premise databases to AWS.
- Strong performance tuning and database optimisation skills.
- Ability to conduct risk assessment and mitigation planning for migrations.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
Desirable
- Experience with Azure Cosmos DB.
- Exposure to large-scale database transformation projects.
- Experience working in hybrid infrastructure environments.
- Knowledge of database footprint reduction and system simplification strategies.
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