Key Skills/Responsibilities:

• Installation, Administration and Maintenance of SQL Server Instances
• Owns the strategic direction for the database topography
• Create Users and assign permissions based on the level of database access the user would need
• Design database backup and restore strategy
• Setup High-Availability as part of Disaster Recovery Strategy for the Databases
• Troubleshoot various problems that arise in the day-to-day operations and fix the issues
• Monitoring and Performance Tuning; Physical Server Level, Database level (Database settings and options) and query tuning to include index optimizations
• Failover clustering, SAN replication, and other high availability technologies
• Database growth vs disk space available, audits, resource monitoring (I/O bottlenecks, memory pressure, CPU use)
• Manage Maintenance Plans
• Monitor backups to ensure they are being performed regularly
• From time to time recover the databases to a specific point of time, as per the requests

Qualifications:

• Microsoft SQL Server DBA experience.
• Microsoft Azure experience
• SSIS / SSAS / SSRS experience
• Data Warehousing experience
• 5-10 years of experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field; or equivalent work experience.
• MCTS, MCITP, and/or MVP certifications