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Team Lead MS SQL Engineer

Tracker Connect LtdJohannesburg, ZA

20 days ago

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Job title : Team Lead MS SQL Engineer

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline : October 08, 2025

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As Team Leader : Microsoft SQL, you will accomplish results through the management of experienced professionals and you will integrate subject matter and industry expertise within the areas of Server Software, MS SQL and Cloud Infrastructure Management. We are seeking a technically strong person with experience managing a team. Ideally, you will have mentored and managed a small Software and Cloud team in the past, and you have passion for production support of technology. This is a dynamic, highly diverse team, and we are passionate about embodying a culture of positivity. Provide management and guidance to the cloud engineering and operations staff, focus on the implementation of new and enhanced services across Tracker’s various locations, and ensure high availability and quick resolution of the services delivered. This position has responsibility for all support aspects of Tracker's SQL Infrastructure, including integration with development teams and leaders, 3rd party providers, and managing the SQL team. Maintaining, close liaison with various operational, project, development, vendor and product teams, ensuring ongoing service and support can be maintained to defined service levels. This team works in an environment that operates 24 / 7.

Job description

Manages enterprise SQL engineering team, recruiting, and mentoring the members of the team, both technically and for career growth

Provides technical oversight across systems and architectures, with an emphasis on reliability, architecture, and automation

Helps to drive the vision for the future of the SQL at Tracker and reliability of applications and services running in the Cloud and on premises.

Provides a holistic view of the production environment for both technology and business management, working closely as a trusted partner with development team leaders

Performs controlled resolution of incidents and problems including prioritization and escalation to relevant groups when appropriate, root cause analysis of all problems with follow-through to resolution

Communicates status to development teams, ensuring outstanding issues are tracked to closure, both for remediation and long-term resolution

Consults with the primary stakeholders of the application in conjunction with development leaders and technical leads to better understand the objectives of the development teams

Requires awareness of audit and compliance related issues

Contributes to formulation of strategies for network growth and stability

Champion initiatives to enable high availability for Business-As-Usual which includes monitoring, failover and resiliency

Ability to handle incidents, problems and change at a global enterprise level

Responsible for delivery of results which directly impacts the development teams

Servers (on-premise and cloud)

Management of servers

Oversee database performance tuning, indexing strategies, and query optimization across environments.

Ensure that user access to SQL is managed and limited

Ensure that server data is backed-up as agreed with the appropriate business owner

Ensure that servers are monitored for performance and uptime

Architect and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or equivalent).

Collaborate with cross-functional teams (DevOps, BI, Cloud, Security) to deliver data-driven solutions.

Monitor and troubleshoot production database issues, ensuring 24 / 7 stability and availability.

Ensure All critical Business databases are replicated at DR.

Manage software upgrades when licensing provides an upgrade path.

Security

Third Party access policy

Perform regular risk assessments

Address risks identified by risk assessments

Manage the various device and system logs

Create and / or regularly update the procedures for data encryption

Create and / or regularly update the procedures for use of external storage medium

Create and / or regularly update the procedures for information exchange with external entities.

Create and / or regularly update the policy and procedures for user access, permitted operations and monitoring of operations

Operating Systems

Ensure all OSs are licensed

Ensure all OSs are on required patch level

Ensure all OSs comply with business standards and are IT approved

Ensure all OSs are monitored by the Network Operator team

Mange the upgrade of operating systems to newer versions if required

Capacity Planning

Create and / or regularly update a capacity management process and procedure

Regular review of capacity management monitoring results

Implementation of appropriate actions to address findings of capacity management monitoring

Minimum requirements

A Bachelor's degree or Equivalent IT Qualification or Diploma.

Certifications in SQL Server, Azure Data Engineer, or equivalent.

Mandatory Microsoft Training and Certifications

Microsoft Certified : Azure Database Administrator Associate.

Microsoft Certified : Data Analyst Associate.

Experience and product specific training as it relates to the role and technologies in use

ITIL

CobIT

Minimum 5 Years Working Experience

2 years of experience managing people in a technical environment.

2 years experience in participating in on-call rotations, and providing after-hours support in an environment that operates 24 / 7

5 years of experience as a System and Cloud Administrator (experience in Microsoft license management).

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