Database Administrator - Project Lead

• Duration: Long term Contract Position
• Location: Hybrid: Columbia, SC
• Pay rate: Hourly
• Job ID: 8660.

• 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, SARG ability 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.

• 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

About our Company
DataSoft Technologies is a highly recognized provider of professional IT Consulting services in the US. Founded in 1994, DataSoft Technologies, Inc. provides staff augmentation services for Information Technology and Automotive Services. Our team member benefits include:

• Paid Holidays/Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical/Dental Insurance Group
• Accident/Critical Illness Insurance
• Life Insurance
• 401 (K)