SQL Server Database Administrator – DBA

Job title: SQL Server Database Administrator – DBA

Company: Ricardo


Job description: Overview:Role: SQL Server Database Administrator – DBALocation: Didcot, Oxfordshire – HybridDuration: Contract role – 1.5 days per weekRole ID: 2025-2665Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.The Role
This role offers the opportunity to work across diverse sectors, including aerospace and defence, automotive, energy, utilities, financial services, government, manufacturing, maritime, and rail. The SQL Database Administrator (DBA) will play a key role in maintaining, optimising, and securing critical SQL Server systems, ensuring high availability and performance across Ricardo’s database environments.Key Responsibilities

• Implement, configure, and maintain SQL databases to ensure performance, availability, and security.
• Monitor and optimise database performance, including queries, indexes, and storage configurations.
• Develop and manage backup and recovery strategies to ensure data integrity.
• Ensure database security protocols are followed, managing user access, authentication, and authorisation.
• Automate routine maintenance tasks and proactively address system alerts.
• Troubleshoot database issues and provide timely solutions to performance bottlenecks.
• Conduct regular data integrity audits and quality checks.
• Collaborate with developers, consultants, and IT teams to support data-driven initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with industry regulations and data protection best practices.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Experience as a SQL Database Administrator.
• Strong expertise in SQL Server (2019+), including design, deployment, and management.
• Experience with SQL clustering, replication management, and database performance tuning.
• Proficiency in Transact-SQL, stored procedures, and ETL technologies.
• Commercial experience with Data Warehousing, SSRS, SSAS, and SSIS package development.
• Strong understanding of server architecture and database security protocols.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve database issues effectively.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Experience with database performance monitoring tools (e.g., SQL Profiler).

Desirable Competencies and Experience

• Experience with cloud-based databases (Azure SQL).
• Knowledge of C#, .NET, and Microsoft Dynamics.
• Exposure to Agresso Financial Software and MySQL.
• Understanding of MS Windows Clustering, NLB, and iSCSI storage.
• Experience in mentoring or leadership roles.
• Background in backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field (preferred).

Working hereYou will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.Work life balanceWe offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statementWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a ‘disability confident’ employer.Next stepsOnce you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.#LI-JT1

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Location: Didcot, Oxfordshire

Job date: Sat, 01 Mar 2025 23:22:36 GMT

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