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 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 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 Power Shell, 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.