What are the responsibilities and job description for the Database Administrator position at Zillion Technologies?
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***THIS ROLE IS NOT OPEN FOR SPONSORED CANDIDATES***
***THIS ROLE IS FOR A DIRECT CLIENT***
***CANDIDATES WITHIN 25 MILES FROM PLANO, TX OR MCLEAN, VA ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY***
***THIS ROLE REQUIRES THE DATABASE ENGINEER TO BE ONSITE (HYBRID), 3 DAYS A WEEK***
Database Administrator
Duration: 6 months. Opportunity to convert to Full time.
Location: Onsite (Hybrid) in Plano, TX OR McLean, VA on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Schedule: Standard
Years of experience: 7
Must Have Qualifications: The Client is specifically looking for a Microsoft SQL server SME. The candidate should be adept at performance tuning, performance monitoring, PowerShell scripting and enterprise experience (supporting 700 servers). Experience in other databases are nice to have.
Required Skills:
- More than seven years of experience working as a database engineer.
- Strong database administration experience on MS-SQL Server.
- Experience in installation, configuration and migration with MS-SQL database platforms.
- Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.
- Strong database performance tuning skills - query optimization and server tuning with MSSQL platforms.
- Possesses deep understanding of MSSQL internals and Optimizer functioning and ability to apply the skills to trouble-shoot real time production issues.
- Provide deployment support for database objects in production and test environment.
- Extremely comfortably in power shell scripting with prior experience in writing and maintaining complex scripts to perform database maintenance.
- Experience in migrating SQL platform to industry standard versions.
- Execute large database migration projects independently.
- Experience with standard database monitoring.
- Understanding of industry standard High Availability and DR technologies.
- Effective verbal and writing communication skills.
- Experience in ansible automation is preferable.
- Experience with data security and compliance with industry standards.
- Experience on other database platforms like Sybase or PostgreSQL and No-SQL database like MongoDB is preferable.
