SQL DBA/Developer Contract Dublin

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• 10+ years of SQL experience in a high-volume transaction processing environment
• Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server up to 2025
• Strong experience with performance tuning on MS SQL Server
• Experience with data integrity and data retention
• Knowledge of and working experience with business intelligence technologies
• Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft SQL Management and SSIS tools
• Experience with SQL clustering, SQL replication, hardware replication, and/or disaster recovery implementations
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, very high-volume transaction processing environment

Responsibilities:

• Join our group on a rolling contract basis for a multi-year transformation project
• Support a large SQL database environment with 17 petabytes of data in a highly regulated setting
• Perform database monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and high-availability strategies using MS SQL Server 2016, 2019, and 2025 in production
• Administer, maintain, develop, and recommend policies and procedures to ensure database and system performance, availability, security, and integrity
• Proactively monitor production databases and stored procedure execution for optimum performance
• Resolve locking conflicts, blocking, and resource utilisation issues
• Identify and resolve database performance issues, capacity issues, and other database-related issues

Technologies:

• Business Intelligence
• Hardware
• Support
• SQL
• Security
• SSIS

More:

We are a leading global firm seeking a talented and experienced SQL DBA/Developer for an urgent rolling contract opportunity in Dublin for 6 to 18 months. This role supports a multi-year transformation project involving a large SQL database in a highly regulated environment. You will work on production database operations, high-availability strategies, and performance optimization across Microsoft SQL Server technologies.

last updated 34 week of 2026