DBA Engineer
HIGHLIGHTS
Location: 100% Remote
Position Type: 2 year contract
Hourly / Salary: BOE up to $70hr W-2
Residency Status: US Citizens and US Permanent Residents only, as sponsorship is not being offered at this time.
JOB SUMMARY
GTN Technical Staffing is currently seeking a DBA Engineer for a long term contract opportunity that is fully remote. The Database Administrator implements, maintains and continuously improves RDBMS systems to ensure availability, scalability, and advancement of our enterprise applications, showcasing solid technical and interpersonal skills to assist in debugging protocols/process for stack callbacks, implementing corrective action within SQL scope, and analyzing performance trends to identify opportunities for improvement.Strategy
• Work with development staff to firm-up/harden database architectures, coding standards, and quality assurance policies and procedures.
• Design and implement redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery and data archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of data assets.
• Research analysis and recommendation regarding database products, services, protocols, and standards in support of future database platform design/delivery/management efforts.
• Operations/Config Management
• SQL database management across development, QA and production environments
• Database performance and capacity management monitoring
• Database maintenance activity implementation (backup/recovery, rebuilding/reorganizing indexes, etc)
• Database release versioning/assessment/measurement from a functionality and performance perspective
• Technical expertise/guidance on database design (Logical and Physical modelling) and development
• Demonstrate SQL expertise related to performance tuning of database schema, stored procedures, etc
• Failover Cluster/HA set-up/configuration/management
• Database management activity automation using PowerShell, SSIS, and other technologies
• System monitoring, metric reporting, and diagnostics
REQUIREMENTS
• BS degree in computer science or related field and/or at least 5-7 years equivalent work experience
• MS SQL Server 2014/2016 and above for 3 or more years
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server Clustering, Replication, and Always On
• Experience with database technologies, such as MS SQL Server 2012/2014, MySQL 5.1 and above
• Experience in performance tuning, query optimization using Performance Monitor, SQL Profiler or other related tools
• Experience resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking/deadlocking issues, connectivity issues, and data replication issues
