Senior Database Administrator Specialist Full Time

Job Responsibilities :

– Performs the design, testing, release and improvement of database platforms.

– Work to ensure that the associated hardware resources allocated to the databases and to ensure high resilience and performance tuning.

– To proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime (both SQL Server and Oracle interface), preferable if it has SCOM knowledge.

– Responsible for providing trend analysis to the management team to enable them to make informed decisions regarding resource management.

– Responsible for troubleshooting and problem solving of SQL and Oracle development.

– Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include rollout and upgrades.

– Strong knowledge of backups, restores, recovery models, database shrink operations, DBCC commands, Clustering, Database mirroring, Replication.

– Responsible for implementation and release of database changes according to agreed timescales and costs.

– Implement database backup maintenance plans and do restore for instances as well as a single database.

– Perform general system administration duties in a Windows Active Directory environment.

– Administer and support Active Directory, DNS & Microsoft Exchange replication.

– Support a multi-site Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010 organization in order to meet and maintain appropriate service levels.

– Maintain appropriate documentation on the Microsoft SQL and Exchange DB environment.

– Provide 24/7 on-call support for the e-mail environment.

– Responsible for testing, tuning, configuration and setup of Microsoft SharePoint architecture as well as supporting common web, portal and workflow components, insuring end-user connectivity to the required parts.

– Participate in weekend maintenance activities, as required.

Experience and Qualifications : 

– 6 – 9 years of IT work experience in DBA environments performing DB design, testing, release, support and improvement.

– 2-3 years should be in a similar position/responsibility, preferably in a demanding industry like Telecom, Banking, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment.

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