Sr SQL DBA (Cloud)

20 Nov 2024

Vacancy expired!

This is a 3 month contract to direct hire conversion at our global eCommerce client in Ann Arbor, MI (remote then Hybrid in 2022).

Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in computer science or other business-related field or equivalent experience
  • 8-10 years of experience as a DBA in a mixed Operating System environment
  • 5+ years of experience on cloud technologies in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform
  • 5+ years of working experience in large enterprise(s)
  • Very strong knowledge and experience in DB performance tuning
  • 5+ years of experience in any three of these respective areas at minimum - MS SQL Server, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Couchbase
  • Hands On experience with SQL Always-On technology
  • Hands On experience with NoSQL
  • Experience of OS administration and Active Directory
  • Knowledge of data modeling concepts
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience with successful project management

Ancillary Qualifications:Qualifications listed below, while not necessarily a requirement for this position in each circumstance, provide additional depth and value to the role.
  • Masters’ degree in related field.
  • MS SQL certifications
  • Cloud Certifications (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)

Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Develops Database strategy to support the cloud and containerization roadmap for cloud and on-premise environments
  • Defines and executes on automation activities related to environment setup, configuration, deployment, and recovery
  • Develops a methodology for the ongoing assessment of database performance and the identification of problem areas
  • Define and design global solutions for multi region high availability, cloud failover and disaster recovery, including in the future multi-cloud
  • Develop and rollout a hybrid cloud/on premise database model that supports hot/hot failover
  • Coordinate with the Cloud and Containerization team to analyze the business drivers that determine key architecture requirements and solutions
  • Provides leadership during the development and enhancement of production applications including working with applications, technical support and operations during the design, development, and implementation of applications
  • Provides guidance and mentoring across the organization in all aspects of the supported areas.
  • Maintain awareness of industry developments, technology, and trends
  • Reviews design tools, technologies, process, and approaches to make best in practice and innovative recommendations
  • Provides technical support for the database environment and provides guidance to the development team on new service implementations
  • Leads database performance benchmarks and implements performance enhancements
  • Responsible for day-to-day database support and maintenance activities, such as database backups, restores for development env to mission-critical production systems to meet or exceed business and IT needs
  • Develop, manage and support of 24x7 proactive monitoring & alerting of databases environments, working with both cloud and development teams to resolve issues and part of on-call support rotation
  • Logical and physical database design, and documentation where applicable
  • Translation of log files to actionable and measurable tasks
  • Planning and execution of database or database asset migrations, combined with modernization, upgrades, transformation and optimization
  • Responsible for Database Server installation, configuration, and set-up
  • Infrastructure troubleshooting in partnership with the cloud team

  • ID: #23052992
  • State: Michigan Ann arbor 48103 Ann arbor USA
  • City: Ann arbor
  • Salary: $50 - $80
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2021-11-20
  • Deadline: 2021-12-31
  • Category: Software/QA/DBA/etc