Koderly is a bespoke software and IT services company with 20+ years’ experience providing cutting-edge enterprise technology solutions to market-leading brands. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, we specialise in travel technology solutions, bespoke application development, and SQL Server database administration and support.
Our culture promotes learning, growth, and innovation, so we’re looking for a Junior Database Administrator (DBA) that has a strong desire for continuous personal development, and the ability to work off their own initiative. You will have flexible working hours so you can work when it suits you. We also adopt a hybrid working model so you can work from where you are most effective, but we do need you in the office some of the time to encourage collaboration, training, and mentoring.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As a Junior DBA, you’ll be talented and adaptable and looking to build your career within an innovative, forward-thinking software and services company, supporting mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server databases for enterprise-level organisations. You’ll share our company values, demonstrating trustworthiness, work ethic, ambition, and morals.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
As a member of Koderly’s Remote Database Administration (RDBA) team, you’ll work alongside experienced DBAs to support, maintain, secure, and performance-tune our internal and customer’s critical SQL Server databases. Key responsibilities include:
- Daily monitoring of database maintenance tasks, including backups, index maintenance, and corruption checks
- Investigating live SQL Server database alerts
- Monitoring of key database routines against a baseline for performance
- Regular capacity planning and monitoring of server throughput
- Monitoring and maintenance of high availability solutions (e.g. replication)
- Troubleshooting database performance issues using industry-standard tools and scripts
- Writing queries and optimising T-SQL code
- Index tuning
- Reviewing SQL Server updates and making recommendations to customers
- Contributing to the development of Koderly’s in-house monitoring tools
- Maintaining database documentation as required
- Updating Koderly’s case management systems and ensuring cases progress through to completion
ABOUT YOU
The right candidate will have some experience in database administration/programming and/or is a software engineer with 1-2 years’ experience who is looking to transition into a SQL Server database administration role. Key skills include:
- 1 year experience in writing T-SQL queries
- A solid understanding of relational database principles
- Experience of installing and configuring a SQL Server instance in either a production or development environment
- An understanding of the role that CPU, memory, and disk I/O play in SQL Server performance
- A basic understanding of how to read and interpret query execution plans
- Familiarity with industry-standard tools and their use in troubleshooting SQL Server performance
- An awareness of cloud platforms and services (such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud)
- Strong organisational skills and effective communication
- Strong writing skills
- A hands-on approach and the ability to work off your own initiative, with a completion mentality
- A strong desire for continuous personal development
WHAT YOU’LL RECEIVE
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption packages
- Flexible working hours to allow you to work at the times that suit you
- Hybrid working model, work in the office 11-hours a week
- Employee Assistance Programme and Health Cash Plan
- Free gym membership
- Training and development
- Profit share
- 21-days holiday, increasing to 25 days, plus bank holidays
- Opportunity to swap UK recognised religious holidays for an alternative holiday for your faith or background
- Opportunities for career progression
Diversity and Inclusion
Working together to positively impact our colleagues, customers, and community through a culture of learning, growth, and innovation.
Diverse and inclusive teams make us more creative and innovative, helping us support our customers and deliver solutions to complex problems. Koderly is an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to an inclusive and diverse work environment, so we encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
