Job Summary
You will develop and contribute to the support strategies/processes that will enable us to deliver high quality and reliable database systems while meeting business requirements.
You will be part of a team that delivers 24 X 7 support for all databases that we are contracted to support.
You will be actively involved in ensuring that we meet customer SLA requirements as per the service contract.
You will assist the junior operations staff by educating them around troubleshooting documents and training materials and help maintain the overall level of systems expertise of the group.
As Senior SQL Server DBA you will play key role in supportability and reliability ensuring readiness for high-availability for critical services.
You will deliver on strategies for the continual improvement of operations, participate in current and new platform strategies.
You will bring strong operational and analytical skills to proactively identify and eliminate gaps in supportability requirements through demonstrated operations experience.Key job responsibilities:
· Install and upgrade software
· Create and upgrade instances
· Manage and implement database patching
· Implement Security Best practices
· Implement latest backup technologies and best practices
· Implement and manage database auditing
· Manage and support user and developer database access
· Audit Database usage
· Manage tablespace capacity and growth
· Perform Database Capacity planning
· Understand and contribute to effective 24 X 7 monitoring of the database
· Perform DB backups and recovery
· Refresh test databases