Database Administrator
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 28, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 25, 2026. A&O Shearman scores B on the Alion truth index.
What you will do
You will support key database for applications used by A&O Shearman that keep the firm running. These include the firm’s finance and customer relationship management systems, as well business intake and time capture. You will support other business critical applications, including file transfer, legal technology and various application services.
You will work with 3rd parties who provide expertise in these systems. The firm’s database infrastructure, MS-SQL, will also be supported by you. You will also support the Dynamics365 platform and applications built on it. Application servers and Databases are a mixture of on-premises and SaaS/cloud-hosted.
As well as supporting the databases stack, you will package, configure, test, and deploy applications to the firm. You will work with other service support teams in I&O, including End-User Compute, Infrastructure and Networks, to provide a world-class service to our business. You will also work with our global service desk, regional support teams and the global IT department. You will provide technical database expertise on projects when required.
Provide availability, scalability and performance of all application database systems through data metrics
Capture, analyse database metrics and bring forward improvements of database systems
Identify, design and implement robust monitoring alerts to identify potential issues early
Maintain core database infrastructure servers in Azure, AVS and on-premises
Develop backup/restore procedures for major databases to ensure data integrity
Develop and leverage automation procedures to turn repeatable actions into automated processes
Analyse database capacity metrics on all server infrastructure
Provide expertise for database engineering to optimise database migrations, queries and performance
Management and monitoring of SQL availability groups and clustered SQL servers
Lead in database related projects and ensure timely delivery.
Analyse and use data to identify and prioritise operations to find root cause of major issues.
Participate in on call and out of hours support for both application and databases
Knowledge and use of DevOps and GitHub and other collaboration tool sets
Support maintenance reviews, vulnerability assessments of MS SQL
Ability to work independently and good communication skills
Document and knowledge share learnings to wider team with ability to multi-task including team upskilling
Experience with programming languages including PowerShell, SQL, Linux preferred
Collaborate with other engineering teams on production changes, incidents and problem management
What you will have
Desired Skills
Proficient Microsoft SQL
Azure Server and SQL infrastructure
AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals and DP-900 Azure Data Fundamentals preferred
SQL AG, Clustering and high availability features experience
SQL and PowerShell scripting experience
SQL and server performance tuning
SQL Replication performance and monitoring tuning
Understanding of Linux server management
What we can offer you
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