Job Description:

Hybrid: Work location & Remote (2 days in office/3 days remote)

 

• Review all Microsoft SQL Server databases.
• Identify any issues such as performance bottlenecks, fragmentation, or inconsistencies.
• Perform routine maintenance tasks such as index rebuilds, statistics updates, and database integrity checks.

• Monitor and maintain Always On Availability Groups for SQL Clusters.
• Ensure synchronization state across replicas.
• Perform failover testing and handle failover scenarios as necessary.

• Review SQL Server and database requests as part of the build cycle.
• Provide best practice recommendations for database design, performance tuning, and security.

• Schedule and perform SQL Server updates and patches.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to minimize downtime and ensure updates are applied in a timely manner.

• Assess existing applications and databases.
• Work with application owners to plan and execute migrations to SQL Server 2019.
• Ensure compatibility and performance optimization during the migration process.

• Identify opportunities to consolidate SQL servers into shared instances.
• Evaluate resource utilization and performance impact.
• Plan and execute server consolidation efforts while minimizing disruption to existing services.

• Perform root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes.
• Identify patterns, trends, and anomalies to answer specific business questions.
• Propose data-driven solutions and opportunities for improvement.

• Provide project management support for SQL-related initiatives.
• Coordinate tasks, timelines, and resources to ensure successful project delivery.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to provide updates and manage expectations.

• Review and optimize SQL backup schedules and technologies.
• Implement backup strategies to ensure data integrity and disaster recovery readiness.
• Monitor backup jobs, troubleshoot failures, and perform periodic recovery tests.
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.

Responsibilities:

Minimum 12 years of experience in the following:

• Microsoft SQL Engineer/DBA must possess advanced SQL querying skills, including expertise in writing complex SQL queries, stored procedures, triggers, and optimizing SQL performance.
• Proficiency in database administration tasks such as database creation, configuration, monitoring, backup and recovery, security management, user access control, and database optimization.
• Knowledge and experience in implementing and maintaining high availability solutions such as Always On Availability Groups, database mirroring, failover clustering, and disaster recovery planning.
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot database-related issues effectively, using tools such as SQL Server Profiler, Dynamic Management Views (DMVs), and Extended Events.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, VMWare, AD, DNS