Microsoft SQL Database Site Reliability Engineer

Step into a high‑impact engineering role where you'll shape the future of Microsoft SQL operations at enterprise scale. As a Database SRE, you'll combine deep SQL Server expertise with modern SRE practices to build a more reliable, automated, and observable database platform for one of the world's largest financial institutions. What You'll Do Lead SQL Engineering - Solve complex SQL Server (Apply online only) challenges across availability, tuning, performance, and architecture. Shape the MSSQL SRE practice - Influence standards, patterns, SLIs/SLOs, and operational models for the SQL estate. Act as the top technical escalation - Provide expert‑level guidance on incidents, root cause, and long‑term fixes. Drive automation and standardisation - Reduce TOIL through scripting, configuration management, and platform engineering. Enhance observability - Improve monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and reliability insights across the estate. Collaborate across engineering - Work with product, engineering, and platform teams to deliver resilient, scalable database services. What You'll Bring Deep Microsoft SQL Server expertise (SQL (Apply online only)) across performance tuning, HA/DR, internals, and enterprise‑scale architecture. Strong SRE mindset - SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, automation‑first thinking, and reliability engineering. Hands‑on automation skills using PowerShell, T‑SQL, and scripting for migrations, deployments, and operational tooling. Expertise with configuration management tools such as Chef or Ansible for database server builds and standardisation. Experience reducing TOIL through simplification, automation, and self‑service patterns. Ability to influence change across risk, controls, transformation, and digital engineering domains. GCS is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy