Sr Database Administrator

Location: Hybrid (3 days onsite per week & 2 days remote- Columbia SC 29201) Duration: 12 months contract (with possible extension)
Candidate location: Candidate must be a CURRENT SC resident. No relocation allowed.
Scope of the Project:
This request is for a senior-level database administrator to 1) Provide senior-level support and guidance to our Child Care team for several initiatives; 2) Assist (at a senior-level) with the support, maintenance, security, and availability of our SQL environment.
Daily Duties / Responsibilities:
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, SARGability 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.

Required skills (rank in order of importance):

Required education:
Bachelor's degree.
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