Expleo is a trusted partner for your innovation journey. As a global engineering, technology and consulting service provider, we are ideally positioned to help you achieve your ambitions and future-proof your business. With a smart blend of bold thinking and reliable execution, we’re able to fast-track innovation through each step of your value chain.
We are strategically positioned to build value, with a global footprint across 30 countries.
We are as global and local as you need us to be, with strong best-in-class pan-European technological centres and unique best-shoring capabilities.
We leverage a network of high value-adding affiliates in consulting and industrial excellence, and leading partners across multiple sectors to provide you with the most comprehensive services and solutions in an ever-changing environment.
Database Administration & Engineering
• Provide full, all-round administration of SQL Server across on-premises VMware and Azure Cloud environments.
• Install, configure, patch and maintain SQL Server instances and databases.
• Automate most repetitive work.
• Develop, review and optimise stored procedures, queries and indexes; resolve performance issues where required.
• Manage backup, restore, security and access controls, and database health in line with client standards.
• Act as a technical escalation point within the team, working with vendors when issues go beyond internal support.
Daily Operations, Monitoring & Reliability
• Complete the morning run of production checks: system health, overnight jobs/batches, monitoring and alert review.
• Proactively monitor database platforms with tools such as Redgate (SQL Monitor) and Azure Monitor and refine alerting and thresholds.
• Take part in daily cross-team stand-ups and track work through ADO boards.
Service Management & Governance
• Handle work raised through ITSM (incidents, BAU tasks and service requests) and carry it through to delivery in ADO.
• Own incidents as the DRI: triage, resolve, run RCA and blameless post-mortems, and feed problem records back to development.
• Automate alert management.
• Manage and resolve database incidents, communicating clearly with stakeholders until closure.
• Raise, document and implement changes following client governance, including presenting at the Change Advisory Board (CAB).
• Follow data protection controls for PII data, including taking part in DPIA (Data Protection Impact assessment) processes.
• Communicate clearly and promptly with technical and business stakeholders throughout incidents and changes.
Automation & Continuous Improvement
• Find and remove repetitive toil using PowerShell/dbatools, T-SQL, SQL Agent/Elastic Jobs and ADO pipelines.
• Build runbooks and self-healing remediation for recurring alerts.
• Bring database change into CI/CD (Redgate / SSDT) with release validation.
Projects & Data Integration
• Support project work alongside BAU as needed, in line with the client change portfolio and roadmap.
• Support data flows for the newly introduced Dynamics case and claims process, including Azure based pipelines built with Azure Data Factory.
• Help with Azure Synapse, ETL and batch processing where relevant.
• Advise on design for reliability, cost and security for new or changing database workloads, including moves from VMware to Azure.
Security & Data Protection
• Handle PII data in line with client data protection controls and take part in DPIA processes.
• Apply least-privilege, auditing and encryption standards across both estates.
Documentation & Knowledge Management
• Produce and maintain clear, accurate documentation, runbooks, procedures and provisioning records in Confluence.
• Keep configuration, provisioning and operational records up to date to support knowledge sharing and continuity.