Job Description
Overview
Job Purpose: Provides support to and maintains multiple production and/or non-production databases of significant and/or strategic impact across the enterprise. Responsible for standards and design of physical data storage, maintenance, access and security administration.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic engineering leadership to drive technology improvements
- Take ownership of projects to ensure successful implementation including Tech-Stack upgrade efforts
- Foster relationship and act as a technical liaison between the DBA Team and the Lines of Business
- Performs backup and recovery on Database Management Systems, configures database parameters and prototype designs against logical data models, and defines data repository requirements, data dictionaries and warehousing requirements
- Optimizes database access and allocates/re-allocates database resources for optimum configuration, database performance and cost
- Tune the stored procedures of simple to complex, assist the development team to optimize the application
- Experience in writing or assisting the T-SQL and PowerShell scripts
- Ensures service level agreements are met for internal and external clients
- Automate the mundane process using T-SQL or PowerShell scripts
- Provides status reports that detail issues for escalation to management
- Performs configuration, scripting, analysis, installation, monitoring, administration and tuning for database management systems
- Performs data analysis to provide management with timely and accurate information and predict future requirements
- Develops, implements and tests database backup and recovery policies and procedures
- Creates and maintains documentation for database policies, procedures, and processes
- Performs/schedules routine maintenance on databases to keep them running at peak performance
- Monitors database performance, availability, and capacity
- Review database storage utilization to ensure proper whitespace allocations
- Review and develop trend analysis for incident remediation and prevention
- Participates in continuous business process redesign to improve internal operations
- Interfaces with user departments remotely and on-site to assist in the implementation of work requests and provide operational support
- Troubleshoots issues and recommends solutions
- Research and evaluate new RDBMS for possible implementation
- Experience in setting up, managing Distributed Availability groups (DAG) across multiple domains
- Performs other duties as required
Knowledge And Experience
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience
- Requires nine (9) or more years of experience working with various database management systems in database design, testing, implementation, maintenance and administration in a multiple platform environment
- Required to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation
- Expert level knowledge of SQL Server database management systems (2012, 2014, 2017, & 2019 [SQL 2022 is a plus])
- Expert level knowledge SQL performance and tuning
- Expert level knowledge of Microsoft Geo-Clustering, Always-On Availability Groups in local & geographically dispersed data centers, Distributed Availability groups (DAG) across multiple domains
- Extensive knowledge of task automation
- Strong database design and analysis skills
- Knowledge of backup and recovery operations for database management systems
- Knowledge of database encryption such as Always Encrypted, Protegrity, TDE, and TLS
- Knowledge of OS, storage, and network layers for troubleshooting purposes
- Knowledge of relational database concepts and terminology
- Ability to monitor and tune databases and instances
- Ability to maintain and monitor availability, security, and integrity of databases
- Ability to focus on production and customer needs and deliverables
- Ability to adapt to the use of new software tools as they are acquired or adopted within IT
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Must be self-motivated, a team player, and have a strong track record in customer satisfaction
- Demonstrated experience with successful system and project implementations
Preferred Knowledge And Experience
- Knowledge of T-SQL, PowerShell Scripting and Automation
- Knowledge of AWS - RDS SQL
- Knowledge of Microsoft Azure RDBMS
- Knowledge of Cloud SaaS RDBMS
- Knowledge of OLA Hallengren maintenance plans
- Experience with scripting languages
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment with minimal supervision
- Ability to learn and apply new skills in a constantly changing technical environment
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