SQL Database Administrator (SQL DBA) Location: Wigan (2 days per week on-site) Salary: Up to £50,000 Benefits: Hybrid working Excellent pension Professional development Holiday allowance Career progression Our client, a leading organisation, is looking to recruit an experienced SQL Database Administrator (SQL DBA) to join its Infrastructure team. This is an excellent opportunity for a DBA who enjoys owning SQL Server environments, ensuring critical databases remain secure, available and performing at their best. You''ll play a key role in maintaining and improving the organisation''s Microsoft SQL estate while supporting wider infrastructure and platform initiatives. What you''ll do Administer, maintain and optimise Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL environments. Manage database backups, restores and disaster recovery processes, ensuring data integrity and business continuity. Monitor and tune database performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements. Develop and maintain database maintenance plans covering indexing, statistics, integrity checks and housekeeping. Ensure high availability and resilience across production database environments. Support database security through access management, permissions and least-privilege principles. Work closely with infrastructure and software engineering teams to support application deployments and database changes. Assist with Windows Server administration, patching and platform maintenance where required. ..... full job details .....