Senior SQL DBA :: 100% Remote (Columbia, South Carolina Need only locals with DL)

Overview

On Site
Full Time
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - Long Term

Skills

WebKit
Software Development
Leadership
People Skills
Application Development
Microsoft SQL Server
High Availability
Transact-SQL
Windows PowerShell
Scripting
Performance Tuning
Backup
Recovery
Encryption
Medicaid
Management Information Systems
MMIS
Project Development
Scrum
Sprint
Data Modeling
Application Support
Microsoft
Collaboration
Oracle
IDMS
Data Migration
Database Administration
Microsoft Windows
Linux
Oracle Data Guard
SQL
Database
Scalability
Project Planning
Software Estimation
Resource Allocation
Presentations
Project Management
English
LinkedIn
Oracle UCM

Job Details

Job Title Senior SQL DBA

Location 100% Remote (Columbia, South Carolina Need only locals with DL)

Duration Long Term

Travel: Onsite travel for meetings as needed, 25% of the year (project dependent)

W2 Role

Job Description

The Senior SQL DBA role has four major attributes: software development leadership, project management skills, people skills, and domain knowledge in enterprise class multi-tier web-based application development projects. Candidates must display excellence in all areas.

Key Skills Must show on resume explained in each job used.

  • 7+ years as a SQL DBA
  • 5+ years' experience with SQL Server
  • 5+ years' experience with High Availability/Disaster Recover (HA/DR)
  • 3+ years' experience with TSQL
  • 3+ years' experience with PowerShell scripting
  • 7+ years' experience with performance tuning, backup/recovery, and security

Preferred

  • Experience in data encryption and traffic encryption.
  • Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) experience

The Senior SQL DBA is responsible for working closely with both the project development team (scrum/sprint teams) and with the Oracle Database Administrators as well as IDMS DBAs to provide DBA support for numerous application and infrastructure databases.

Duties include:

  • Advising development and product teams on best approaches for required data model extensions and/or changes.
  • Hands-on SQL development and application support in ways that are consistent with Microsoft best practices.
  • Collaboration with Client's Oracle and IDMS database administration team to maintain test, staging, production databases and the development of operations procedures for database management.
  • Developing and executing a data migration plan as needed to accommodate data transfers from existing data stores.
  • Coordinating with outside entities, including vendors for other systems/services, providers, professional associations.
  • Analyze performance data, recommend courses of action and implement best solutions to achieve optimum performance.
  • Participate in a 24x7 on-call support rotation.
  • Proven DBA experience in supporting enterprise applications in Linux environments, preferably windows and Linux.
  • Experience with Data Guard
  • Demonstrated success in supporting a development team implementing primarily web-based solutions using SQL as the database.
  • Understanding of IT development and implementation projects.
  • Understanding of database scalability and operations.
  • Project planning experience, including effort estimation on technical tasks and resource allocation.
  • Strong written and oral communications skills, including the ability to give presentations to project management. Strong proficiency in English is required.
  • Impeccable integrity. This project will have very high visibility and will impact significant expenditures of public funds. Candidates must be confident with their abilities to make correct decisions and the courage to speak out when necessary.

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