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.
• Provides high availability solutions for multiple database configurations.
• Uses extensive experience in disaster recovery solutions and best practices to create, maintain, and verify backups using native and 3rd party solutions. Discusses RPO and RTO strategies with business leaders.
• Performs advanced performance monitoring and troubleshooting. Creates execution plans, uses database optimizers, and has experience using database-specific monitoring technologies.
• Applies a cybersecurity mindset and best practices to secure Database servers. Interacts/guides audit and compliance teams. Uses data security/encryption mechanisms (e.g., TDE, data masking/redacting/subsetting). Hardens database servers based upon security hardening requirements. Assists with security audits from internal and external providers.
• Identifies and resolves capacity issues. Regularly monitors/reviews performance metrics to identify trends and future risks in the environment before they happen and works with leadership to get the work prioritized. Partners with the Enterprise Systems Services team on physical design and implementation of database infrastructure

Qualification & 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.