Senior SQL Server DBA Location: Birmingham - On-site Salary: 60,000- 65,000 Job Type: Full-Time, PermanentThe OpportunityWe''re working with an established organisation seeking an experienced Senior SQL Server Database Administrator (DBA) to take ownership of database performance, reliability and optimisation across its AWS environment. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on SQL specialist to become the primary technical owner of database administration and performance, with responsibility for identifying issues, improving scalability and ensuring critical systems operate efficiently. You''ll work closely with software developers and technical stakeholders, investigating complex database challenges, optimising queries and implementing improvements that have a measurable impact on application performance. This role offers significant autonomy and the opportunity to shape database standards, monitoring and long-term performance strategy.Key ResponsibilitiesAdminister, maintain and optimise multiple Microsoft SQL Server instances.Monitor database performance and proactively identify potential issues.Investigate slow-running queries, blocking, deadlocks, indexing problems and execution plan regressions.Use Query Store, execution plans, Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) and Extended Events to diagnose performance issues.Optimise T-SQL queries, indexing strategies, database statistics and SQL Server configuration.Investigate SQL generated by Entity Framework, identifying ..... full job details .....