Database Administrator (DBA)

Tasks, Duties & Responsibilities

• Configuring and maintaining production & development database infrastructure
• Maintains database performance, stability, and reliability by identifying and resolving production and application development problems.
• Making requested changes, updates, and modifications to database structure and data
• Ensuring database integrity, stability, and system availability
• Maintaining database backup and recovery infrastructure
• Debugging production and development database issues
• Defining and implementing standards and best practices related to system architecture, deployments, metrics, and operational tasks
• Developing and enhancing service documentation
• Maintaining 24/7 uptime in business-critical environments via On-call basis
• Adhere to documented change and incident management policies
• Use established Shared Services support processes and tools to document and track problem resolution
• Develop technical documentation for use in future incident resolution
• Ability to participate on weekend maintenance tasks

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with installing, configuring, and tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008/2012/2014/2016 on windows (2008/2012/2016 preferred)
• Expert knowledge optimizing database performance, implementing best database system and security practices, and troubleshooting problems.
• Strong knowledge of SQL Replication and SQL Server Always-On , Always-On Failover Clustering Instances, Always-On Availability Groups/ Distributed always on.
• Strong experience with database administrator tools to manage and monitor the database environment
• Experience with database scripting and queries for process automation and administration
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in a distributed team environment and across multiple time zones.
• Understand enterprise application and infrastructure requirements
• Good understanding of ITIL processes