Senior Database Administrator

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

• Bachelor's 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