Team Lead MS SQL Engineer, Johannesburg

Introduction

As Team Leader: Microsoft SQL, you will accomplish results through the management of experienced professionals and integrate subject matter and industry expertise within the areas of Server Software, MS SQL, and Cloud Infrastructure Management. We are seeking a technically strong individual with proven team management experience. Ideally, you will have mentored and managed a small Software and Cloud team in the past, with a passion for production support of technology.

This is a dynamic and diverse team that values positivity and collaboration. You will provide management and guidance to cloud engineering and operations staff, focusing on implementing new and enhanced services across multiple locations, while ensuring high availability and swift resolution of issues. The role is responsible for all support aspects of SQL Infrastructure, including integration with development teams, third-party providers, and managing the SQL team. Close collaboration with operational, project, development, vendor, and product teams will be key to ensuring services are consistently maintained to defined service levels. The environment operates 24/7.

Job description

• Manage the enterprise SQL engineering team, including recruitment, mentoring, and career growth.
• Provide technical oversight across systems and architectures, with emphasis on reliability, scalability, and automation.
• Drive the vision for the future of SQL infrastructure and ensure reliability of applications and services across cloud and on-premise environments.
• Offer a holistic view of the production environment for both technology and business management, partnering closely with development leaders.
• Perform controlled incident and problem resolution, including prioritisation, escalation, root cause analysis, and follow-through to resolution.
• Communicate status to development teams, ensuring outstanding issues are tracked to closure for both short-term and long-term solutions.
• Consult with stakeholders and technical leads to better understand objectives and align delivery.
• Ensure awareness and compliance with audit and regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to strategies for network growth, scalability, and stability.
• Champion high availability initiatives for Business-As-Usual, including monitoring, failover, and resiliency.
• Manage incidents, problems, and change at an enterprise level.
• Deliver results that directly impact business and development outcomes.

Servers (on-premise and cloud)

• Manage server infrastructure.
• Oversee database performance tuning, indexing strategies, and query optimisation across environments.
• Control and monitor SQL user access.
• Ensure server data backups are maintained as per business requirements.
• Monitor server performance and uptime.
• Architect and maintain scalable, sec
  
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