WTW is an award-winning advisory, broking and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth.
From the Titanic ship in 1912 to The Moon Buggy in 1971, WTW has a richness in insurance history dating back to 1828.
Our WTW Regional Delivery Hub based in the heart of Lisbon encompasses a +300 strong global team who deliver operational excellence through innovation and streamlined solutions every single day.
The Role The SQL DBA will be responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of SQL Server databases to ensure the availability, reliability, and performance of critical business applications. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in database administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting, with a proactive approach to managing SQL Server environments.
Daily Activities: Monitor SQL Server environments for performance issues, security threats, and potential failures.
Respond to alerts and incidents promptly, troubleshoot issues, and implement resolutions.
Perform routine maintenance tasks such as database backups, index maintenance, and statistics updates.
Optimize SQL Server performance by analyzing query execution plans and tuning database configurations.
Review and enforce security policies and access controls to protect sensitive data.
Monitor disk space, memory usage, and CPU utilization to ensure optimal resource allocation.
Document database configurations, maintenance procedures, and troubleshooting steps.
Develop and test scripts to automate database administration tasks and improve operational efficiency.
Collaborate with development teams to optimize database schemas, queries, and application performance.
Stay informed about SQL Server updates, best practices, and industry trends.
Qualifications The Requirements
Design, Installation, Administration and Maintenance of SQL Server Instances
Deploy and maintain database standards.
Manage database security and database access.
Design and maintain database backup and restore strategy.
Perform Database restores and assist application recoverability including DR activities.
Design and build High-Availability as part of Disaster Recovery Strategy for the Databases
Assist in customer application migration strategy and migration activities.
Monitoring and Performance Tuning and optimizations
Manage Maintenance Plans
Create and Monitor backups tasks, perform database restores.
Participate in client questionnaires and regular auditing activities.
Participate on-call rotation.
Additional DB2 or Oracle Database support experience would be preferred but not required.
What's in it for you? In WTW, you'll find a professional yet friendly and easy-going environment in an office based in a fast-growing European capital. Come join a team of dynamic and motivating colleagues!
In addition to our attractive remuneration package, we offer:
Work-life balance: Mobile working or in the office? Flexible working hours? Sure, no problem. Hybrid working is more than just a buzzword for us.
Monetary benefit: An attractive, performance-related remuneration system.
Internationality: An international management consultancy and the security of a global corporation with renowned customers.
Development opportunities: A steep learning curve and sufficient freedom for individual career development: You will dive deep into a variety of topics, both on-the-job and in intensive specialist training.
Cooperation: Learning from each other and making decisions together, collegial, appreciative, and dynamic.
Customer contact: Quickly take responsibility.
Corporate events: Together we celebrate our successes and our community.
Willis Towers Watson is an equal opportunity employer
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