Job description 

Job overview and responsibilities

This position manages the engineering and administration of all on-prem SQL instances and databases including the security, availability, performance, and data protection for those databases. This position manages the off-hours patching and deployments for all Tier 1 thru Tier 5 SQL and Couchbase databases. Additionally, this position is responsible for AWS cloud migrations, support, and deployments.

Qualifications

Required 

• Bachelor's degree or 4 years of relevant work experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
• 2 years AWS hands-on experience with Aroura MysSQL/PostgreSQL RDS
• 7 years Database Administration experience in SQL Server
• Proficient in SQL development and administration disciplines with current hands-on experience with the latest SQL Server releases including SQL 2022/2019. 
• Strong background and experience with all HA and DR capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server including Always-On, Mirroring, Log Shipping, and Clustering with a practical understanding of other Infrastructure HA/DC capabilities
• Leverage metrics to drive capacity planning and trending to proactively identify potential problems and mitigate before they result in customer impact
• Understand the place of automation and standardization when delivering stable, maintainable, and performant database services at scale
• Perform platform, database, and query optimization
• Use of tools like Dynatrace, IDERA, RedGate, AppD, Service Now
• Indepenednt thinker and Team player with willingness to learn and work on stretch responsibilities.
• Powershell and scripting skills required.
• Must be legally authorized to work in India for any employer without sponsorship
• Must be fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
• Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree or 4 years of relevant work experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline / Masters Degree preferred.
• Microsoft SQL Server or AWS certification
• 10 years DBA with SQL and AWS
• Hands-On experience with AWS native databases, compute, storage, monitoring technologies, and continuous integration pipelines
• Experience implementing automation of Microsoft SQL Server deployment and maintenance, and support activities preferred
• Collaborate both vertically and horizontally to evolve overall database services and technology strategies
• Experience supporting SSAS, SSIS, and SSRS
• Very large Database (10+ TB) experience preferred
• Experience with PowerShell or other scripting languages a plus
• Experience with PCI, SOX, and SQL Auditing a plus