Data Administrator

Position summary:

A MS SQL Database Engineer, w ho is comfortable working within a matrixed environment and is focused on providing operational excellence within the MS SQL platform, this experienced database administrator will possess broad technical knowledge and bring an established work history with Microsoft SQL S erver to a high-availability, production environment. This person will own the availability and performance of top revenue-producing databases and coordinates troubleshooting efforts across the infrastructure. Incumbent is a strong team player, who is comfortable leading database projects and collaborating with global database team members in many areas of SQL Server database administration.

Duties & accountabilities:

• Design and build highly available Microsoft SQL solutions, making use of log shipping, mirroring and Always On technologies

• Ensure performance, security, and availability of databases

• Prepare documentation and specifications

• Handle common database procedures such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.

• Profile server resource usage, and optimize and tweak as necessary

• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• Work closely with the SQL Operations team, and act in a mentoring capacity to junior DBAs

• Collaborate with the global Engineering and Production Support teams to create a forward-looking service improvement plans and roadmaps.

• Maintain a broad knowledge of operating systems and hardware and making recommendations on improving administration, availability, scalability, and disaster recovery of current systems.