The Database Administrator is responsible for managing the SQL Server Enterprise Database management system on the Microsoft Windows Server platform hosted on our physical servers in a 24/7 environment. The Database Administrator (DBA) is responsible for the performance, ongoing maintenance, backup/recovery, security of the database, with an emphasis on data warehousing and data analytics.
Key Responsibilities
• Responsible for maintaining and supporting all Production/Test/Development MS SQL Servers, ensuring that
database code meets company standards for readability, reliability, and performance
• Install and configure new SQL Servers, on physical hardware and virtualized testing environments
• Experience with SQL Server performance optimization, determining the most effective way to increase performance
including server configuration changes or index/query changes
• Proactively identify performance gains (index strategies, TempDB configuration, partitioning, compression, etc.)
• Proficiency in SQL Server High Availability clusters and replication, especially regarding backup/recovery, disaster
recovery, and planning
• Monitor scheduled database and application backups
• Audit/approve change requests to existing tables, stored procedures, indices, constraints, triggers, and views as
well as audit/approve new entries
• Troubleshoot and resolve SQL Server outages as they occur, including after-hours and weekends
• Assist with production system release management, collaborating with Software Configuration Manager and
perations team to plan and execute production releases, and when necessary, coordinate release reversion
• Monitor our production, test and development SQL Servers and keep our system free from errors and outages
24x7x365
• Develop infrastructure to support a revenue-generating data warehouse model using SSIS and other tools
• Clean and prepare data and create pipelines between production databases and the data warehouse database
Qualifications
• Understand complex software engineering principles to be able to discuss with clarity pros/cons of various
design/tool choices
• Multitask, prioritize, show initiative, and respond quickly in a fast-paced environment
• Intellectually curious, with a passion for continuous learning and growing professionally
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to quickly respond to critical problems
• Ability to prioritize and adapt in a dynamic environment
• Understand and communicate effectively about problems at hand
• Follow best practices around documentation and troubleshooting
• Ability to summarize the work and communicate status, plan iterative improvements and multitask.
Preferred Experience
• Experience with data warehousing, SSIS, and Microsoft Power BI
• Familiarity with GIT and Red Gate Source Control
• Familiarity with Atlassian products including BitBucket, Jira, and Confluence
• Ability to write and integrate PowerShell scripts
• Experience using SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer and other monitoring tools