W2 Requirement ---- MS SQL DBA ---- Alpharetta/Terrell Mill GA and Berkeley Heights NJ

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
10% Travel

Skills

Database Administration
Database
SQL
Microsoft Azure

Job Details

Job Title: MS SQL DBA

Location: Alpharetta GA, Terrell Mill GA, Berkeley Heights NJ

Duration: Lon-Term Contract

Job Description:

Team and Responsibilities:

This position maintains Microsoft SQL databases, including all client-facing environments, database backup, support of databases across internal and end-user applications. Responsibilities includes improvements of database integrity through quality assurance and manages change control processes related the SQL environment. Additional responsibilities include analyzing existing database applications for performance tuning, alerting & monitoring, working with application developers to integrate efforts with relational databases, participate in team or company projects as required, maintain state-of-the-art knowledge of existing best practices in database administration, design, and implementation, capacity planning and provides on-site support.

What you will do:

  • Provide expert level troubleshooting to quickly identify and resolve database related incidents across a wide array of technologies and platforms
  • Responsible for participating in root cause analysis and problem resolution
  • Makes technical decisions during high priority incidents focused on impact remediation and communicates clearly to call participants and leadership
  • Perform updates/changes during maintenance windows
  • Understand current capacity issues and the capacity planning processes
  • Work with team to review change requests
  • Participate in software deployments
  • Assimilate organizational objectives into operational action plans
  • Support a rigorous change control process including creating, reviewing, approving and implementing change records for database activities
  • Engage, drive and escalate issues with database vendors related to incident management
  • Support a rigorous problem management process including problem creation and review database activities
  • Participate in special projects representing database operations on new implementations or troubleshooting deep dives
  • Identify opportunities for automation of manual tasks

What you will need to have:

  • Need in-depth knowledge related to upgrade with AG, Azure migration, in general migration of servers.
  • Must have expertise on challenging situations about log management, performance tuning, managing AG based configurations, command level concepts etc.
  • Very experienced managing SQL
  • Experience with backup processes & procedures
  • At least 3+ years experience working as a SQL Server DBA in an Enterprise environment.
  • Excellent communication (spoken and written) skills
  • The ability to document standard operational procedures
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