Senior SQL Database Engineer - AI Ops

About the role

A major bank in Sydney is seeking a Senior SQL Database Engineer (AI Ops) for a permanent role. The position leads the adoption of AI in database operations, using analytics and trending to predict issues, speed up resolution, improve IT serviceability and support data-driven decisions across capacity, performance, cost and risk.

Key responsibilities

• Engineer, maintain and optimise a large-scale, mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server environment across on-premises and cloud platforms.
• Drive database performance, availability and reliability through proactive monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning and advanced troubleshooting.
• Use AI and AIOps capabilities to predict potential issues, identify anomalies, optimise queries and improve operational efficiency.
• Maintain database security, governance and compliance, including encryption, auditing, access controls and vulnerability management.
• Take part in the on-call roster and provide technical support during major incidents and events.

Required profile

• 8+ years of hands-on database engineering experience supporting enterprise Microsoft SQL Server 2016.
• Experience applying AI and AIOps to database engineering and operations, such as AI-assisted development, query optimisation, anomaly detection, log and telemetry correlation and predictive capacity forecasting.
• Experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical environments, ideally in banking or financial services.

Candidates are asked to reply quickly with their latest CV.