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Role: 158630 SQL DBA
Location: Lansing, MI (Hybrid-1, 2 days a week).
NEED ONLY MI LOCALS
Experience: 8+ Years
Duration: 12+ Months Contract
Job description:
SQL Database Administrator
- Responsible for reviewing and complying with policies and procedures.
- Responsible for data analysis and database management. Involved in
maintenance, enhancement, designing of data dictionaries, physical and logical
database models, and performance tuning. Knowledge of or gain knowledge in
the utilities and production tools used for data storage management to support
the Applications Proficiency in PowerShell or Python.
- Designs logical and physical databases reviews description of changes to
database design to understand how changes to be made affect physical data
base.
- Establishes physical database parameters. Uses structured query language
(SQL) to define database objects using database definition language (DDL) and
control access to database objects using data control language (DCL). Language
descriptions and specifies identifiers of database-to-database management
systems or directs others in coding database descriptions. Calculating optimum
values for database parameters, such as amount of computer memory to be
used by database, following manuals and using calculations. Specifies user
access level for each segment of one or more data items, such as insert, replace,
retrieve, or delete data. Specifies which users can access databases and what
data can be accessed by user. Tests and corrects errors, and refines changes to
database.
- Enters SQL to create production database. Uses database utility programs and
3rd party utilities to monitor database performance, such as distribution of
records and amount of available memory. Directs programmers and analysts to
make changes to database management system.
- Reviews and corrects programs. Answers user questions. Confers with
coworkers to determine impact of database changes on other systems and staff
cost for making changes to database. Modifies database programs to increase
processing performance, referred to as performance tuning. Workers typically
specialize in one or more types of database management systems.
- Aiding in the planning, development, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated
database systems, and ensuring that the conceptual and design phases of new
applications are consistent with the structural parameters within the database
environment.
- Evaluates users'' requests for new data elements and systems, incorporates them
into the existing shared data environment, and provides technical assistance.
Coordinates the use of data to ensure data integrity and control redundancy,
loads databases, and reorganizes as needed. Performs data modeling and
prototyping. Performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational
database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models.
Performs security recovery procedures. Determines and implements database
search strategies and storage requirements. Maintains data dictionary ensuring
uniformity of definitions and sets standards for use of data dictionary. Monitors
database performance and recommends efficiency improvements. Creates test
database environment for applications section, including the creation of
necessary libraries and procedures.
- Executes the procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases
from hardware and software failures within established procedures. Assists with
determining, implementing, and enhancing standards on database security and
with monitoring agency disaster recovery procedures and systems. Assists with
the installation of database software and with analyzing, designing, and
implementing databases. Assists in benchmarking and threshold testing of
databases and with establishing and controlling necessary database security.
Assists in the selection of database management software. Experience in
computer systems analysis or computer programming work.
- Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of computer programming
and systems design; of computer operations, systems, and procedures; of
project control and cost estimating techniques; of computer programming
languages; of data processing flowcharting techniques; of database structures
and theories; and of current database technologies.
Requirements:
Database Administration Backup & Recovery:
1. Required. 3–5 years - Implement native, cloud-native, and hybrid cross-site
backup and recovery strategies. Installation & Configuration:
2. Required. 3–5 years - Configure SQL Server on physical hardware, VMs, and
cloud IaaS virtual machines.
Security & Compliance:
1. Required. 3–5 years. Enforce data masking, encryption (TDE), and Row-Level
Security for internal customers.
Database Maintenance:
1. Required. 3–5 years. Manage automated indexing, statistics, and integrity checks
across fragmented environments.
2. PowerShell / CLI Automation: Required. 2–3 years. Automate hybrid environment
configuration using PowerShell, dba tools, and Cloud CLIs.
Performance Tuning & Monitoring Hybrid Performance Monitoring:
1. Required. 2–3 years. Analyze metrics across physical servers, IaaS VMs, and
PaaS endpoints.
2. Query & Index Optimization: Required. 3–5 years. Identify bottlenecks, rewrite T-
SQL, and resolve locking/blocking issues.
Hybrid Infrastructure Management:
1. Required. 2–3 years. Manage connectivity between on-premises SQL Servers
and cloud environments.
Azure SQL / AWS RDSS:
1. Required. 2–3 years. Configure Azure SQL Database, Managed Instances, or
AWS RDS SQL Server. Cloud Migration: Preferred. 1–2 years. Move workloads
from on premises to cloud using Azure Database Migration Service or AWS
SMS.
CI/CD & Database Versioning:
1. Preferred. 1–2 years. Schema deployment automation via Azure DevOps/GitHub
Actions using Flyway or Redgate. Multi-Tenant
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