SQL dba

Role: SQL DBA

Location: Nashville, TN or Chicago, IL (Initially Remote)

Rate: $65/hr

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Senior Database Administrator will be assigned to work with one or more development project teams. In this role they will be expected to:

• The System Engineer will be responsible for building, supporting and managing end-to-end solutions within Amazon AWS and Azure Cloud environments.
• Support SCRUM teams in an Agile development environment.
• Working with the Solutions Designer, Development Architect and third parties as appropriate, the engineer will be responsible for ensuring that a technical design document describing the technical architecture for the program/project is produced.
• Understand the business and application requirements and translate into a database design.
• Ensure that all technology selected for the program conforms to the organizations technical long-term strategy.
• Be responsible for the availability, stability, recoverability and performance of the database environment by ensuring all systems are monitored, patched, and operating optimally.
• Design and develop complex SQL queries and appropriate database code such as stored procedures, triggers, functions to support complex business processes.
• Develop and deliver extensible/sustainable/quality database solutions based on defined business needs.
• Review and update stored procedures for optimal performance. Identify and correct performance bottlenecks related to SQL code.
• Recommend changes to the relational data model to solve performance issues with SQL code. Requires a solid understanding of relational database design and concepts.
• Monitor and troubleshoot SQL jobs using available tools such as SQL Profiler, Quest Spotlight, review logs and triage issues.
• Participate in the resolution of production data issues.
• Perform code reviews, providing feedback in a timely manner. Incorporate feedback from code reviews as appropriate.
• Participate in the review of all database schema projects; provide feedback and identify impacts to existing environment.
• Monitor business data stored in production databases, ensuring integrity of the data is maintained.
• Responsible for developing, maintaining and deploying SSIS packages.
• Participate in release of all stored procedure projects; including release documentation.
• Maintain knowledge as new versions of SQL Server are released and leverage new functionality as appropriate.
• Proactively identify and act on opportunities to improve database systems and processes.
• Contribute to standards documentation for database coding practices.
• Prioritize multiple tasks so that aggressive deadlines are met.
• Provide ongoing suggestions for improvement and innovation within the department.
• Exhibit sound, methodical engineering judgment, and effectively manage trade-offs in a business environment.
• Familiar with one or more of the below or other programming languages : VBScript, JavaScript, VB, Java, .NET,PERL
• Maintain and exhibit knowledge of AWS RDS, Azure SQL and NOSQL database
• Provide after-hours support as required to address system outages and perform system updates/upgrades/modifications.
• Identify new processes or modify existing processes to improve efficiencies in the support and monitoring of the department's production applications.
• Perform other duties as required.

• B.S. Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related discipline is preferred.
• MCSE/Azure Certification preferred.
• 5-8 years of experience in database development and support in MS SQL Server environment.
• 3+ years working experience in deploying physical and cloud instances of SQL Server. (Azure preferred)
• 2+ year of working with PostgreSQL.
• Working Knowledge of Databricks administration and Datalake, is a plus. (Azure Preferred)
• Working knowledge noSQL database technology. (Mongo, Cosmos, Others)
• 3+ years of experience in scripting language like Powershell, VB Script, Python, or similar.
• Strong understanding of Security guidelines in Cloud environment.
• Open to work on Infrastructure projects and assist on Environment buildouts from Database and Data Analytics perspective.
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking & deadlocking issues, replication/log shipping issues, network/connectivity issues, security issues, etc.
• Experience in Performance Tuning, Query Optimization using SQL Monitor, New Relic, and other related tools
• Ability to detect and troubleshoot SQL Server related hardware resource contention such as CPU, memory, disk IO, etc.
• Solid acquaintance with windows server, security models, and storage components such as SAN.
• Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server
• Advanced experience with TSQL language and stored procedures, transactional replication, multi node clustering, mirroring, etc.
• Knowledge of Data Warehousing and Column store databases.
• A broad understanding of enterprise-class technologies
• Extensive knowledge and experience with large scale client facing online systems
• Extensive knowledge and experience with Amazon AWS technologies
• Extensive knowledge and experience with Windows based technologies
• Ability to communicate and to interact effectively with co-workers and customers is required.
• Ability to work and adapt in a dynamic environment and recognize priority issues, escalating accordingly
• Experience with creating standards and documentation
• Ability to work both independently or as part of a project group, with time constraints
• Strong customer service oriented; organizational and communication skills, positive and can-do attitude
• A technical troubleshooting and prioritization skills test will be part of the interview process.