SQL Database Administrator

Seeking Senior SQL DBA for 6mth contract

Location: Melbourne

Position Summary

Experienced Senior SQL DBA and Migration Consultant with extensive expertise in designing, planning, and executing complex SQL Server migrations from on-premises environments to Microsoft Azure.

Proven ability to assess, architect, and migrate mission-critical SQL workloads across IaaS, PaaS, and hybrid platforms while ensuring minimal downtime, data integrity, high availability, disaster recovery, security, and compliance requirements are met.

Strong background in SQL Server administration, Azure SQL technologies, Always On Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, Disaster Recovery solutions, SSIS package migration, performance optimization, and integration with enterprise applications and cloud services.

Experienced in leading migration assessments, defining target-state architectures, coordinating cutovers, and providing post-migration support for large enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

· Administer and support SQL Server environments (2012/2014/2016/2019/2022).

· Perform installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, and security hardening.

· Manage database backups, restores, maintenance plans, and monitoring.

· Troubleshoot database performance and availability issues.

· Implement SQL Server best practices and operational standards.

· Assess existing SQL Server environments.

· Conduct dependency discovery and application impact assessments.

· Develop migration runbooks, cutover plans, rollback plans, and hypercare procedures.

· Lead migration execution and coordinate with infrastructure and application teams.

· Design and implementation experience of

o Always On Availability Groups (AOAG)

o Windows Failover Clustering (WSFC)

o Backup and Restore DR strategies

o Multi-region Azure DR solutions

· Migrate and troubleshoot:

o SSIS Packages

o SQL Agent Jobs

· Execute database health checks and performance tuning.

· Support governance requirements for enterprise and regulated environments.

· Experience using tools such as

o Azure Database Migration Service

o Data Migration Assistant (DMA)

o Native Backup/Restore

Required Experience

10+ years SQL Server DBA experience.

5+ years cloud database migration experience.

Demonstrated experience migrating SQL workloads from on-premises to Azure.

Experience supporting clustered SQL environments and AOAG architectures.

Experience migrating and validating SSIS packages and SQL Agent Jobs.

Preferred Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300)

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate