MS SQL IMS Engineer (Banking)

Client of Innovations Group UAE

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Desired Candidate Profile

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide support for MS SQL in a mission-critical banking environment.

- Ensure compliance with PCI DSS, SWIFT, and local banking regulator requirements.

- Operate under ITIL processes (Incident/Change/Problem/Knowledge).

- Maintain high availability, performance, and security; participate in DR/BCP drills.

- Design/architect, capacity plan, and optimize MS SQL for large-scale banking workloads.

- Lead major incidents/war rooms; guide L1/L2; produce post-incident reports for auditors.

- Define standards, golden configurations, and automation (scripts/Infra-as-Code) to reduce toil.

- Roadmap planning, version upgrades, performance baselining, and DR strategy ownership.

Required Tools & Technologies:

- SSMS, Azure Data Studio, Extended Events/Profiler

- Always On AG, Log Shipping, Replication, Clustering

- DBA tools: dbatools (PowerShell), Ola Hallengren maintenance

Relevant Certifications:

- Microsoft Azure Database Administrator Associate / MCSE (legacy)

- ITIL Foundation

Experience Requirements:

- 3+ years in architecture, performance engineering, and major incident leadership.

Soft Skills & Banking Behaviors:

- Clear communication with operations, security, audit, and business stakeholders.

- Evidence-driven troubleshooting; strong documentation and runbook hygiene.

- Ownership mindset with 24x7 support readiness and on-call rotation participation.