MS SQL Database Administrator

Description:

Senior Azure & On Prem MS SQL Database Administrator will be responsible for the management of production and non-production databases; database maintenance activities; troubleshooting database-related issues; monitoring of database capacity and performance; installation, administration, and configuration of database server/instances/databases; installation and configuration of SSRS, and Power Bi RS; Support release/code deployment activities (SSIS Packages, SSRS reports, SQL objects etc)
 

Essential Functions
• Conduct the following for Azure SQL/Azure SQL MI/SQL on Azure VM, On Prem SQL Server, SSRS, Power Bi RS, SSIS, Azure Synapse and other related products as applicable and necessary.
• Install/Configure/Setup/Administer and Maintain production and non-production environments.
• Setup High-Availability and Disaster Recovery
• Plan and test high availability and disaster recovery
• Create Users and assign/manage permissions based on the level of access the user would need; ensure robust and full proof security of assets.
• Resolve database integrity, performance, blocking, connectivity, and replication issues.
• Detect and resolve database-related CPU, memory, I/O, disk space and other contention issues.
• Perform and manage Database backup/recovery/restore and capacity monitoring.
• Synapse workload management and optimization
• Setup SQL agent jobs, elastic jobs, and runbook automation
• Identify and setup alerts and logging in Azure.
• Maintain databases – Statistics, Indexes, fragmentation.
• Upgrade and maintain SQL Server and related software (apply patches and updates when necessary)
• Coordinate removal and/or archiving of data that is no longer required to be available in the production databases.
• Deploy and configure SSIS packages and SSRS and Power Bi RS Reports. Troubleshoot issues with SSRS, Power Bi RS, and SSIS.
• Support release/code deployment activities
• Provide 24x7 support as necessary.
• Implement operational automation using scripts.
• Conduct Performance tuning and optimization (Stored procedures, Views, Functions, Queries, database) - In-depth SQL database advanced performance tuning experience – Stored Procedures, Views, Functions; skilled in analyzing and assessing query execution plans and DMVs; expertise in assessing and implementing indexes and partitioning; Tuning ETL Jobs - SSIS & Azure Data Factory
• Design and create databases to support development initiatives.
 

Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree or related working experience
• Experience in HA/Failover technologies
• Experience in log shipping and DR Environments
• Experience with DataSync in Azure and other technologies used in replicating data.
• Strong Experience in Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO)
• Experience with SQL Server versions 2016 to 2022
• Experience running and troubleshooting SSIS packages.
• Experience troubleshooting performance issues in the SQL Server environment.
• Good verbal and written communication are a must have.