4594 - Database Administrator - Specialist at TEKsystems

Description:

"We are a team of 7 Database Platform Engineers working with both on-prem and cloud databases. We are focused on engineering solutions that will simply customer usage while maintaining security standard and enforcing best practices”

OB DESCRIPTION

As a Database Systems Engineer, focusing on SQL Server Databases, you will engineer and support database systems including analysis, planning, design, development, implementation, and upgrades. Applying established architectural and engineering best practices, you will take charge of complex systems to achieve strategic objectives in the areas of solving for client, infrastructure availability and automation, as well as a strong focus on database environment security.

This involves designing system solutions, implementing new features, resolving complex incidents and problems, enhancing infrastructure monitoring and alerts, and consultation with application support and development staff.

By applying established best practices, you will take charge of build decisions, infrastructure design for larger, more complex systems to achieve strategic objectives through Agile-based delivery. As a strategic thinker, you help to bring out the best in those around you. You will also have the opportunity to learn and work with other database technologies and automation practices based on additional architectural design and engineering opportunities.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Oversee the installation, configuration, and maintenance of SQL Server databases, ensuring optimal performance, security, and availability, including high availability and disaster recovery (HADR) solutions.

• Develop and maintain automation scripts using PowerShell, Ansible and other tools to streamline database management tasks.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications and designs.

• Design & Implement scalable infrastructure solutions, ensuring alignment with internal standards and compliance.

• Apply logical and analytical thinking to identify and solve complex infrastructure challenges.

• Conduct analysis of existing systems and processes to identify areas for improvement and innovation.

• Effectively communicate technical concepts and solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Qualifications:

• Experience: Minimum of 3-5 years of experience working with relational databases

• Technical Skills:

• Exprience with SQL queries, including but not limited to SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE commands.

• Understanding of joins, indexes, and simple data modeling

• Understanding of database schemas, tables, and relationships.

• Familiarity with popular databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle.

• Exposure to scripting languages like Python, PowerShell, or Ansible

Additional Knowledge and Experience Desired:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Exposure to High Availablity concepts, such as, Database Mirroring, Data Replication or SQL Server Always On Availability Groups (AOAG).

• Exposure to PowerBI and Gateways Administration

• Exposure to secrets management tools such as Hashicorp Vault and/or CyberArk vaulting for access administrative IDs as needed.

• Expsure to ETL, Analysis and reporting Tools.

• Experience working within Atlassian’s Jira software for agile based feature and story creation and execution.

• Experience with AWS, Azure or other cloud environments including technologies such as RDS, Azure SQL Database

• Experience using database related products and technologies such as: ELK stack, Dynatrace and SolarWinds DPA

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

• Strong technical aptitude and ability to logically analyze and creatively solve complex issues independently.

• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing to multiple levels of the organization.

• Ability to work well with teams not centrally located.

• Ability to be self-directed and collaborative in ambiguous situations.

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with all levels throughout the enterprise.

• Strong sense of ownership and the ability to work with limited set of requirements.

• Ability and desire to train/mentor other team members.

** Contract-to-Hire Possibility

Skills:

Database administrator, Sql server, Oracle database

Top Skills Details:

Database administrator,Sql server,Oracle database

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Experience Level:

Expert Level

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.