Required Skills

SQL DBA

Work Authorization

  • Us Citizen

  • Green Card

  • EAD (OPT/CPT/GC/H4)

  • H1B Work Permit

Preferred Employment

  • Corp-Corp

Employment Type

  • Consulting/Contract

education qualification

  • UG :- - Not Required

  • PG :- - Not Required

Other Information

  • No of position :- ( 1 )

  • Post :- 9th Sep 2021

JOB DETAIL

•           Provide specifications for provisioning new MSSQL Servers and manage their installation and configuration to provide optimum results

•           Plan database upgrades and patching to avoid operational risks by maintaining application support requirements.

•           Ensure database backup strategies are meeting Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives Track space usage trends and ensure adequate capacity for future growth of database environments.

•           Provide Subject matter expertise on database design and database performance issues. Research and recommend new database software in area of database security, database monitoring and database development.

•           Oversee production release management processes for database code promotions for various business applications.

•           Perform development and test data refreshes as per business needs.

•           Control and apply database access permissions, privileges and controls to maintain database security as per organizational standards.

•           Develop & document best practices for all aspects of MSSQL Server management, database development  & Database operation and Security Involve in architecting and implementing DR solutions with Always On, SQL log shipping, DB Mirroring, Replication.

•           Mentor DBAs and Application Developers, manage and facilitate interface throughout organization to provide database technical support, advice and problem resolution for database centric issues.

•           Provide Subject matter expertise on database design and database performance issues. Research and recommend new database software in area of database security, database monitoring and database development.

•           Collaborate between Infrastructure Teams and Application Development Teams for scalable , efficient databases applications.

•           Monitor MSSQL Servers for transaction latency, blocking and deadlock issues, and provide guidance in preventing/avoiding these issues to application development teams.

•           Work with external and internal auditors to improve security, and develop & implement database auditing process, participate in database compliance and security audits and publish needed reports to upper management

 

Minimum Education and/or Experience Requirements:

•           Bachelor’s degree plus at least ten years related experience

•           Experience as Database Administrator in SQL Server Environment

•           Experience supporting database sizes about 200GB to 2TB in size

•           Experience supporting multiple instances of SQL 2000-SQL 2014 in production environment with components including SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, Clusters.

•           Experience with Database Management and database monitoring tools such as DMVs, PerfMon, Profiler, Extended Events, third party tools such as Spotlight, Foglight , Performance Analyzer, Redgate SQL Monitor, Idera Diagnostic Manager, Idera SQLSafe , Litespeed

•           Experience designing and documenting processes and procedures, database migration plans, database upgrade plans as per business requirements.

•           Experience in designing, configuring and maintaining High Availability and DR Solutions.

•           Powershell, C# or .NET Scripting is a plus

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

•           Strong verbal and written communication skills.

•           Must be detailed-oriented, results-driven, highly energetic and motivated.

•           Able to communicate efficiently and effectively to technical and non technical audiences.

•           Must be highly organized, detail oriented, extremely responsive and able to prioritize a large number of tasks.

•           Ability to provide guidance to team members to meet deadlines and objectives

•           Strong commitment towards SDLC/Change Management Principles

•           Knowledge of data quality, data management and data testing strategies and practices.

•           Experienced with SQL installation on standalone and cluster servers across multi-subnet environments

•           AWS/Microsoft Azure Services, Virtualization, Storage Area Networks, Windows Server Administration.

•           Travel may be required 5% of the time. 

 

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