Senior Database Administrator

Description

The Senior DBA will be responsible for supporting day-to-day operations and management of enterprise-level production database systems, both on-premise and in the cloud. Candidates must be able to lead and mentor a team of engineers focused on deploying, configuring, managing, and testing installations, as well as managing upgrades, replication, and backup and recovery of current databases. This role will work closely with R&D leaders to provide guidance, develop DB standards, and create data governance policies. Our ideal candidate will be local to Troy, Michigan and will work in the office 3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Act as a thought leader on migrating from SQL Server to other DB technologies

• Setup and optimize SQL Server standard and SQL AG

• Setup SQL AG to scale as multi-tenant in the cloud

• Perform manual as well as scheduled/automated backups and restores of Production and non-production databases.

• Utilize industry standard tools, cloud service provider native portals and features, and/or other third-party client approved tools necessary to provide operations, maintenance, and migration support services.

• Troubleshoot complex SQL queries and problems,

• Provide incident support and analysis services

• Provide log and error reporting information to colleagues, customers and support organizations as needed

• Support day-to-day operations and management of enterprise-level production database management systems.

• Define data integrity management policies

• Tune and monitor database performance

• Manage replication, backup, and recovery of current databases

• Develop processes and procedures to proactively monitor DB health

• Create and maintain documentation for cloud database operations in accordance with industry standards and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS, software engineering, or similar degree, or comparable work experience

• 10+ years of experience as a DBA -- SQL Server and cloud experience a must, AWS preferred

• Well versed in DB cloud technologies and ability to provide leadership and guidance to others

• Ability to lead and mentor a team of database focused engineers

• Ability to work with leaders across R&D to develop database best practices and governance

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