Senior SQLServer DBA
Our client is looking for an MS SQL Database Administrator. Candidate must have 10+ years experience operating in both a system and development DBA capacity using MS SQLServer, with at least 2 years in a technical lead capacity.
Should have the experience and expertise to design and implement 24x7 enterprise wide solutions for optimal application performance, load balancing, high-availability and disaster recovery, as well as, the ability to lead others, manage workflow and collaborate with product development teams to ensure DBA commitments meet fluctuating priorities.
Administer and support 24x7 highly-available SAN based production enterprise environments across multiple data centers
Install, configure, validate and monitor complex cluster services, log shipping, database mirroring, replication, load balancing, backup and recovery procedures
Design, implement and support a disaster recovery solution that leverages the ability to failover and failback real-time very large databases within the acceptable SLA
Proactively monitor server, database and ETL process health to ensure availability and performance
Perform pro-active capacity planning, recommend and implement solutions to provide scalability
Build and enforce database change management, security standards and best practices across various database environments and ensure processes are adhered to and documented
Support production and non-production deployments of database schema changes, code deployments, and stored procedures
Create automated data driven scripted solutions to perform various administration and monitoring tasks
Provide support for Agile/Scrum based product development teams, collect database requirements and provide solutions and recommendations for new schema, infrastructure or architecture
Maintain SDLC physical environments and support schema changes through dev, qa, uat and staging environments. Participate in on-call rotation
Bachelors Degree and/or Microsoft SQL Server Certification
10+ years installing, configuring and managing medium to large 64-Bit SQLServer databases in a clustered environment, including backup and recovery, replication, log-shipping and database mirroring
10+ years maintaining and exercising real-time disaster recovery fail-over and fail-back events for high transaction systems
10+ years of experience implementing SAN based solutions, including snapshots and clones
10+ years tuning all aspects SQLServer, including SQL query evaluation and tuning
10+ years in collaborative database design, including data warehouse design, SQL query development and ability to create stored procedures
2+ years of experience with the Agile/Scrum development process
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to develop and write procedures and policies
Able to alternate 24 X 7 production database support with the ability to work in global environments and collaborate effectively with counterparts in remote offices
