Database Administrator - Project Lead - Local to South Carolina (Hybrid Job) -

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

Agile
Auditing
DSS
Database
Issue Resolution
Mentorship
Microsoft SQL Server
Migration
Optimization
Performance Tuning
Project Management
ROOT
Replication
Scalability
Scrum
Statistics
Storage

Job Details

Hi There,

Below is the new requirement from the State of South Carolina.

Role: IT - DSS - Database Administrator - Project Lead

Duration: 12 Months

Client: State of South Carolina

Location : Columbia, SC (Hybrid Job)

Department : DSS

Daily Duties / Responsibilities:

Primarily, this position will provide senior-level support and guidance to our Child Care team, including mentoring Child Care developers on schema and query design, execution-plan review/tuning, and security best practices.

In addition to this, this position will assist (at a senior-level) with the support, maintenance, security, and availability of the agency s SQL Server environment for other application teams, while prioritizing Child Care commitments.

  • Designs, develops, implements, and maintains database, procedures, and functions that accommodate changing business priorities and technological changes while ensuring availability, scalability, performance, recoverability, reliability, and security.
  • Acts as liaison for SQL Server database performance, integration, migration, upgrade, storage, and replication strategies.
  • Performs SQL Server performance tuning: waits/Query Store analysis, index & stats optimization, SARGability fixes, and parallelism tuning.
  • Monitors the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime; configures alerts and telemetry for proactive detection.
  • Interacts with project management and Agile development teams to develop a strong understanding of project and database development objectives.
  • Participates in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different team members to drive towards root cause identification and resolution.
  • Documents, tracks and escalates issues as appropriate.
  • Participates in Scrum teams in support of Agile projects; end-to-end support for build, deployment, and operational activities.
  • Exercises considerable latitude, discretion, and independent judgment in determining technical objectives of assignments.
  • Performs routine operations and maintenance including installations, upgrades, patching, monitoring, auditing, and issue resolution.
  • Manages and prioritizes multiple, diverse tasks simultaneously.
  • Must be flexible, independent and self-motivated.
  • Work collaboratively to meet team goals/mission.
  • Provides after-hours or weekend maintenance as needed.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Skills:

Database Administration

Expert

6+ Years

Backup/Recovery

Expert

6+ Years

Performance Tuning

Expert

6+ Years

RDBMS

Expert

6+ Years

SQL Server

Expert

6+ Years

T-SQL

Expert

6+ Years

Failover Clusters

Expert

2-4 Years

High-Availability

Expert

2-4 Years

DMVs

Expert

2-4 Years

SSIS Services

Expert

2-4 Years

SSRS

Expert

2-4 Years

Profiler

Expert

2-4 Years

SQL Tuning

Expert

2-4 Years

Database planning, scaling, and capacity planning

Expert

2-4 Years

SQL Server 2008R2

Expert

1-2 Years

SQL Server 2012

Expert

1-2 Years

SQL Server 2014

Expert

1-2 Years

SQL Server 2016

Expert

1-2 Years

ETL

Advanced

2-4 Years

SSAS

Advanced

2-4 Years

Verbal Communication

Intermediate

2-4 Years

Written Communication

Intermediate

2-4 Years

PowerShell

Intermediate

1-2 Years

RedGate Toolset

Intermediate

1-2 Years

SDLC

Intermediate

1-2 Years

Required Education:

Bachelor's Degree

Required Certifications:

No

Interview Process (who will conduct i/v, phone or in-person, how many rounds of i/v s)?

Interview will be by skype and will be conducted by a team of 3 5 developers and/or Project Managers.

Schedule Interview: How soon can you schedule an interview (date / times)?

Within 2 weeks of closing

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