Milestone IT is a leading recruitment agency specializing in connecting top IT talent with dynamic organizations. We are partnering with a blue-chip client in Melbourne to find a highly skilled Principal Database Engineer.
About the Role
As a Principal Database Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in driving the success of our client's database infrastructure. You will lead and oversee large-scale database initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and providing strategic recommendations on database technologies, design, and best practices.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead and oversee large-scale database initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals.
* Provide strategic recommendations on database technologies, design, and best practices.
* Develop and implement technical standards to ensure consistency, performance, and security across the environment.
* Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and align technical solutions accordingly.
* Ensure database integrity and optimal performance.
* Oversee the implementation, upgrade, and maintenance of databases.
* Evaluate new database technologies, and cloud-hosted solutions, and assess potential benefits, risks, and suitability for the organization.
Essential Skills
* Demonstrated experience in Database Design and implementation of robust, scalable solutions.
* Strong understanding of design best practices and principles.
* Extensive experience in SQL Server 2008R2/2012/2014/2016/2019/2022 instance installation, configuration, and security implementation.
* Expertise in designing, managing, and supporting Cloud Database platforms like Azure SQL Database.
* Proven history of actively leading SQL Server upgrades, migrations, SSIS, and SSRS.
* Expertise in managing and supporting large-scale databases on multi-disk arrays.
* Skilled in diagnosing and resolving complex database issues, including performance bottlenecks, deadlocks, resource contention, etc.
* Strong expertise in database tuning and optimization. Advanced knowledge of index creation and Query optimization will be pivotal to the role.
* In-depth knowledge of backup strategies, restore processes, and disaster recovery models.
If you are a highly skilled Principal Database Engineer with a passion for driving database excellence, we encourage you to apply.
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