Senior SQL DBA

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Manages databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission critical production systems.
• Applies data modeling techniques to ensure development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations.
• Independently analyzes, solves, and corrects issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
• Refines and automates regular processes, tracks issues, and documents changes.
• Assists developers with complex query tuning and schema refinement.
• Provides 24x7 support for critical production systems. Participates in an On-Call rotation as needed
• Performs scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours.
• Shares domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross training to other peers and team members.
• Installs, configures, patches, and upgrades database servers. Manages on-prem and cloud based (Azure-preferred) database servers and services in PaaS and IaaS cloud solutions.

Experience

• 6+ years SQL Database Server Administration experience
• Monitoring software systems to detect potential database problems. Investigating, troubleshooting, and evaluation of Production database problems.
• Recommending and implementing approved solutions and documents the problem / resolution.
• Writing, testing, and implementing operating system scripts and procedures to automate various SQL DBA functions and processes.
• Coordinating development, testing, and implementation of database systems to meet database capacity standards and sizing objectives.