SQL Server DBA/Database Architect
SQL Server DBA/Database Architect
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SQL Server DBA/Database Architect
Princeton NJ
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We are looking for an experienced SQL Server DBA/Database Architect with management experience to support our production and non-production environments. The role provides day-to-day database support for .NET (LINQ/Entity Framework) applications using SQL Server running primarily on AWS RDS. SQL Server constitutes 95% of our database environment but we do support other platforms. We also support RDS instances and VMs running Postgres MySQL and MongoDB. We are a 24/7/365 organization and this role requires participation in an on-call rotation.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Use monitoring tools to diagnose performance opportunities and provide suggestions and feedback to developers
- Support the QA and dev teams with backups/restores of databases and instance snapshots
- Manage assigned tasks within the Jira ticket system
- Participate in bi-weekly production code releases and hot fixes
- Manage replication jobs in data replication tool (CloudBasic)
- Review Git pull requests that relate to data model query or schema changes
- Respond to ad hoc reporting requests
- Apply patches and updates
- Assist auditors to respond to internal and external audit requests
- Provide cross-functional communication and support to engineering and product teams
- Provide system designs for data migrations data replication between systems and data management.
- Participate in a weekly rotation for on-call support for critical business impacting issues outside of what the DBA NOC can triage.
- Provide direction for SQL relational and non-relational data and schema mapping indexes and performance.
Requirements:
- 10 years of experience as a production support SQL Server DBA preferably in an AWS or GCP environment or in other cloud environments (or related data systems experience)
- Proficient with TSQL DML DDL SSMS
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills
- Must understand how to interpret a query plan have deep knowledge of indexes and statistics
- Able to respond to calls within the SLA when on-call
- Able to import/export data using common SQL Server tools such as BCP SSIS or Powershell
- Proficient with Powershell (particularly dbatools) and a working knowledge of Bash
- Experience with source control systems such as Git TFS SVN
- Passion for embracing and learning new technologies
- Experience with High Availability techniques to ensure maximum uptime when adding indexes modifying large amounts of data patching and re-sizing instances.
- Experience working with government (Medicaid Medicare) security and government policies such as ISPE ARS GRC.
Bonus Skills:
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- PBM or Healthcare based business experience preferred
- Jira Confluence Bit Bucket
- Data modeling
- Replication (any)
- .NET
- Python
Employment Type
Full Time
