<p><strong>The Company<br /></strong>This organisation is a well-known & NZ owned integrated financial services group with multiple branches throughout the country. The business is increasing investment in the technology division, and require someone who is ready to dive into a busy environment to deliver quickly through a busy migration project.<br /> <br /><strong>The Role</strong><br />We are seeking an experienced SQL Server Database Administrator (Contract) for an initial 6 month contract. This role plays a critical part in a major modernisation initiative, with a primary focus on migrating on premises SQL Server 2016 environments to SQL Server 2025, while ensuring stability, performance, and data integrity across the database estate.<br /><br />You will work closely with Infrastructure, Application Development, Information Security and external partners to deliver successful migrations and maintain reliable, secure, and high performing SQL Server platforms. In addition to migration delivery, you will provide hands on DBA support across business critical systems, contributing to operational resilience and continuous improvement.<br /><br />Key responsibilities include:</p><ul><li>Leading and delivering SQL Server version upgrades and migration activities</li><li>Managing and supporting on premises SQL Server environments to meet availability and performance targets</li><li>Installing, configuring, upgrading, and patching SQL Server instances with minimal business disruption</li><li>Monitoring, tuning, and optimising database performance and capacity</li><li>Implementing and validating backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions</li><li>Supporting database related incidents, service requests, and change activities</li><li>Ensuring database security, access controls, and compliance requirements are met</li><li>Producing and maintaining clear technical documentation and knowledge artefacts</li></ul><p><strong>Skills and Experience</strong><br />To be successful in this contract role, you will bring strong hands on SQL Server administration expertise and have a proven track record of delivering complex migrations within enterprise environments.<br /><br />You will have:</p><ul><li>Extensive experience administering Microsoft SQL Server in production environments</li><li>Proven delivery of SQL Server migrations and version upgrades, ideally including large scale or enterprise estates</li><li>Strong knowledge of SQL Server installation, configuration, maintenance, and patching</li><li>Solid experience with backup, restore, and disaster recovery planning and testing</li><li>Hands on experience with high availability solutions such as Always On Availability Groups, clustering, or replication</li><li>Strong database performance tuning and query optimisation skills</li><li>Exposure to cloud hosted or hybrid database environments</li><li>Familiarity with automation or infrastructure as code approaches (desirable)</li><li>Experience working within data security and governance frameworks, including PII handling</li></ul><p>You will also demonstrate:</p><ul><li>Strong problem solving ability with a pragmatic, delivery focused mindset</li><li>Clear written and verbal communication skills</li><li>High attention to detail and personal work standards</li><li>Strong planning and organisational capability</li><li>Ability to work confidently across technical teams and stakeholders</li><li>Adaptability and accountability in a fast paced, project driven environment</li></ul><p>This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned SQL Server DBA looking to make a tangible impact on a significant platform modernisation programme within a respected New Zealand organisation.<br /><br /><strong>Apply Today</strong><br />Please send your resume in Microsoft Word format by clicking on the apply button or for further information, contact Camilla Hamilton or Ondrej Litavsky in our Auckland office on 09-915-6700.</p><p><em>Job Reference No: 06900-0013415432</em></p><p> </p><p><em>By clicking 'apply', you give your express consent that Robert Half may use your personal information to process your job application and to contact you from time to time for future employment opportunities. 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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Company<br /></strong></span><br />This organisation is a specialist provider of engineering and infrastructure services within large scale energy and utilities environments. It partners with asset owners, network operators, and public sector stakeholders to design, deliver, and maintain critical electrical infrastructure. With a strong emphasis on safety, reliability, and supporting the energy transition, the business delivers complex, end to end solutions across transmission, distribution, substations, and related technologies, underpinned by a collaborative and project focused culture.<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Role</strong></span><br /><br />This hands on Infrastructure Engineer role will see you providing both operational infrastructure support and involvement in ongoing projects across the organisation.<br /><br /><strong>Key responsibilities include:</strong></p><ul><li>Providing infrastructure support across servers, storage, networking, desktop environments, security, backups, and telephony</li><li>Monitoring, managing, and maintaining on premises and cloud based datacentres</li><li>Maintaining and repairing IT equipment within datacentre environments</li><li>Managing and monitoring cybersecurity across workstations, servers, and network devices</li><li>Supporting and contributing to infrastructure and technology projects</li><li>Maintaining and updating technical and infrastructure documentation</li></ul><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Your Profile</strong></span></p><ul><li>3-5 years' experience</li><li>Experience with virtualisation technologies such as VMware or Hyper V</li><li>Hands on experience working with Microsoft Azure</li><li>Strong networking fundamentals and experience</li><li>Experience with Windows Server environments (Linux experience is advantageous)</li></ul><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Apply Today<br /></strong></span><br />Please send your resume by clicking on the apply button.<br /><br /><em>Reference Number:</em> 06900-0013424155</p><p><em>By clicking 'apply', you give your express consent that Robert Half may use your personal information to process your job application and to contact you from time to time for future employment opportunities. For further information on how Robert Half processes your personal information and how to access and correct your information, please read the Robert Half privacy notice:</em> <em><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://www.roberthalf.co.nz/privacy-statement&data=05|01|[email protected]|2df93a725f1c43601e5308daa1051e08|16532572d5674d678727f12f7bb6aed3|0|0|637999340615419831|Unknown|TWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0=|3000|||&sdata=cIixo6zjvDZ9MDPYy+jEU0wsYA/yRNDEHRQ4pRKx8Eg=&reserved=0">https://www.roberthalf.co.nz/privacy-statement</a>. Please do not submit any sensitive personal data to us in your resume (such as government ID numbers, ethnicity, gender, religion, marital status or trade union membership) as we do not collect your sensitive personal data at this time.</em></p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/ZG9taW5pcXVlLnNtaXRoLjU5OTQ1LjEwOTE4QHJoaW56LmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ.gif">
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Description<br /></strong></span><br />You'll contribute to the ongoing evolution of a modern engineering platform, working closely with product and engineering teams to improve delivery, reliability, and developer experience.</p><ul><li>Partner with engineering teams to streamline delivery and deployment processes</li><li>Improve system reliability through proactive monitoring and incident response</li><li>Contribute to architecture decisions for scalable, resilient systems</li><li>Support security, compliance, and governance across infrastructure</li><li>Drive continuous improvement across tooling, processes, and documentation</li></ul><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Company<br /></strong></span><br />A well-established, product-led digital platform operating at national scale, serving a high-traffic marketplace with millions of monthly users. The business is deeply embedded in its industry and continues to invest heavily in modern cloud infrastructure and engineering excellence.</p><ul><li>Operates a large-scale, high-availability digital platform</li><li>Strong focus on cloud-native architecture and continuous innovation</li><li>Values-led culture centred around excellence, care, and growth</li><li>Collaborative environment with cross-functional product teams</li><li>Significant investment in DevOps, platform engineering, and automation</li></ul><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Role<br /></strong></span><br />This is a hands-on DevOps Engineering role focused on building, maintaining, and evolving cloud infrastructure and delivery pipelines. You'll play a key role in ensuring systems are scalable, secure, and resilient while enabling fast, reliable software delivery.</p><ul><li>Design and operate scalable, secure cloud infrastructure (AWS-centric)</li><li>Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines for efficient, low-risk deployments</li><li>Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK)</li><li>Drive observability through monitoring, logging, and alerting practices</li><li>Embed security into pipelines and infrastructure (DevSecOps approach)</li></ul><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Your Profile<br /></span></strong><br />You're a technically strong DevOps or Software Engineer who understands modern infrastructure, automation, and delivery practices. </p><ul><li>Proven experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles (2+ years)</li><li>Strong AWS expertise with cloud-native design principles & Terraform IaC.</li><li>Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes/ECS) and networking fundamentals</li><li>Solid scripting/programming capability (Python, Bash, or Node.js)</li><li>Strong stakeholder communication and ability to work cross-functionally</li></ul><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Apply Today<br /></strong></span><br />Please send your resume by clicking on the apply button.<br /><em>Reference Number: (06900-0013421711).</em></p><p><em>By clicking 'apply', you give your express consent that Robert Half may use your personal information to process your job application and to contact you from time to time for future employment opportunities. For further information on how Robert Half processes your personal information and how to access and correct your information, please read the Robert Half privacy notice:</em> <em><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://www.roberthalf.co.nz/privacy-statement&data=05|01|[email protected]|2df93a725f1c43601e5308daa1051e08|16532572d5674d678727f12f7bb6aed3|0|0|637999340615419831|Unknown|TWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0=|3000|||&sdata=cIixo6zjvDZ9MDPYy+jEU0wsYA/yRNDEHRQ4pRKx8Eg=&reserved=0">https://www.roberthalf.co.nz/privacy-statement</a>. Please do not submit any sensitive personal data to us in your resume (such as government ID numbers, ethnicity, gender, religion, marital status or trade union membership) as we do not collect your sensitive personal data at this time.</em></p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/QWxla3MuVnVqb3ZpYy4yOTQ1MS4xMDkxOEByaGluei5hcGxpdHJhay5jb20.gif">
