Microsoft SQL Database Site Reliability Engineer

Step into a high‑impact engineering role where you'll shape the future of Microsoft SQL operations at enterprise scale. As a Database SRE, you'll combine deep SQL Server expertise with modern SRE practices to build a more reliable, automated, and observable database platform for one of the world's largest financial institutions.

• Lead SQL Engineering - Solve complex SQL Server 2016-2022 challenges across availability, tuning, performance, and architecture.

• Shape the MSSQL SRE practice - Influence standards, patterns, SLIs/SLOs, and operational models for the SQL estate.

• Act as the top technical escalation - Provide expert‑level guidance on incidents, root cause, and long‑term fixes.

• Drive automation and standardisation - Reduce TOIL through scripting, configuration management, and platform engineering.

• Enhance observability - Improve monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and reliability insights across the estate.

• Collaborate across engineering - Work with product, engineering, and platform teams to deliver resilient, scalable database services.

• Deep Microsoft SQL Server expertise (SQL 2016-2022) across performance tuning, HA/DR, internals, and enterprise‑scale architecture.

• Strong SRE mindset - SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, automation‑first thinking, and reliability engineering.

• Hands‑on automation skills using PowerShell, T‑SQL, and scripting for migrations, deployments, and operational tooling.

• Expertise with configuration management tools such as Chef or Ansible for database server builds and standardisation.

• Experience reducing TOIL through simplification, automation, and self‑service patterns.

• Ability to influence change across risk, controls, transformation, and digital engineering domains.

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