Sr. SQL DBA

Job Description:

Position: Sr. SQL DBA

Duration: 12 Months Contract

Location: 100% Remote

NOTE: Need a South Carolina Resident consultant only because 20% onsite travel for the meeting is required.

Responsibilities:

• 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 Microsfot best practices.
• Developing and executing a data migration plan as needed to accommodate data transfers from existing data stores.
• Analyze performance data, recommend courses of action and implement best solutions to achieve optimum performance.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call support rotation.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Skills:

• 7+ years experience as a SQL DBA
• 5+ years experience with SQL Server
• 5+ years experience with High Availability/Disaster Recovery (HA/DR)
• 3+ years experience with TSQL
• 3+ years experience with PowerShell scripting
• 7+ years experience with performance tuning, backup/recovery, and security
• Bachelor s degree in a technical, business, or related field. Master s degree is desirable.
• 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.
• 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.
• Willingness and ability to effectively engage with people and organizations continuously.

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Healthcare industry experience and/or experience managing PHI/PII data
• Experience in data encryption and traffic encryption.
• Vendor management experience.
• Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) experience
• Public sector experience is a plus.