Powered by industry-leading, Our Client delivers import/export air, ocean and road freight forwarding, supply chain management, logistics and specialised services in retail, manufacturing and chemicals.

Client seeks a data professional with a broad experience in data management. As a small company we are seeking an individual who has a broad skill set covering Database Administration, Database Architecture, Database Infrastructure and Data Engineering.

You will be part of an exciting Data and Technology Team. The role is pivotal in delivering our data and IT strategy and an excellent opportunity for an individual to design, build and improve our existing capabilities with the mindset to constantly striving for delivering industry best practices. Applicant must have a confident and enthusiastic attitude, be willing push the boundaries and develop innovative and best of breed solutions to contribute to our continued success.

Key Responsibilities:

Contributing to data and database solutions both independently and as part of the wider development function delivering optimisation, security, and reliability of our database systems.

Your will be responsible for:

Building solutions from scratch and enhancing existing Adopting new technologies into our stack. Experimenting with new solutions. Database Administration:

Install, configure, and maintain SQL Server instances in various environments.

Design and implement database structures to meet application and business requirements.

Collaborate with data and technology team to ensure optimal database performance.

Handling common DBA tasks such as upgrades, backup, recovery, migrations etc.

Supporting the test / live system, understanding all elements of our technology platform and infrastructure, not just the databases.

Solving ops problems: incident management, and researching how we can prevent recurring issues.

Analysing and automating as much as possible to remove manual tasks.

Performance Tuning:

Monitor database performance for efficient data retrieval.

Identify and address performance bottlenecks and query execution plans.

Capacity planning and optimization (performance & cost) of existing and new database infrastructure.

Ensuring the performance, availability.

Security Management:

Implement and manage database security measures to protect sensitive data.

Administer user access, permissions, and roles to ensure proper data governance.

Backup and Recovery:

Develop and maintain robust backup and recovery strategies to prevent data loss.

Perform regular database backups and test recovery procedures.

Performance Tuning:

Monitor database performance for efficient data retrieval.

Identify and address performance bottlenecks and query execution plans.

Monitoring and Maintenance:

Conduct routine monitoring of database health and proactively address issues.

Monitoring and managing multiple data replication streams.

Execute regular maintenance tasks and updates to ensure system stability.

General Skills:

Several years of hands-on experience. Deep understanding of Azure, SQL Server HA and DR and related technologies. Strong Understanding of database performance tuning strategies and goals. Be confident taking ownership of SQL and database related tasks. Strong performance monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting skills. Experience working with MS-SQL and T-SQL from SQL 2016/2019. Familiarity with Microsoft Windows OS 2012R2-2019 Exposure to replication, SSIS and SQL Reporting Services Be proactive and passionate about all things data and SQL Server. Experience with configuration management. Experience with migrating from on-premises to private and public clouds. You keep yourself updated about new trends in IT and a proven ability to learn new technologies and use that knowledge effectively. Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field Desirable Knowledge, Skills

Understanding of Supply Chain & Freight Willingness to learn and develop. Ability to write technical documentation. Experience with application security. Knowledge of how Linux works.