Database Administrator/Lead

Type: w2 contract, 12 month+ contract

Location: Onsite, Columbia, SC

Title: Sr Database Administrator/Lead

Responsibilities:

Primarily, this position will provide senior-level support and guidance to the team, including mentoring developers on schema and query design, execution-plan review/tuning, and security best practices.

In addition to this, this position will assist (at a senior-level) with the support, maintenance, security, and availability of the agency's SQL Server environment for other application teams, while prioritizing commitments.

• Designs, develops, implements, and maintains database, procedures, and functions that accommodate changing business priorities and technological changes while ensuring availability, scalability, performance, recoverability, reliability, and security.
• Acts as liaison for SQL Server database performance, integration, migration, upgrade, storage, and replication strategies.
• Performs SQL Server performance tuning; waits/Query Store analysis, index & stats optimization, SARGability fixes, and parallelism tuning.
• Monitors the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime; configure alerts and telemetry for proactive detection.
• Interacts with project management and Agile development teams to develop a strong understanding of project and database development objectives.
• Participate in troubleshooting and triaging issues with different team members to drive towards root cause identification and resolution.
• Documents, tracks and escalates issues as appropriate.
• Participates in Scrum teams in support of Agile projects, end-to-end support for build, deployment, and operational activities.
• Exercises considerable latitude, discretion, and independent judgment in determining technical objectives of assignments.
• Performs routine operations and maintenance including installations, upgrades, patching, monitoring, auditing, and issue resolution.
• Manages and prioritizes multiple, diverse tasks simultaneously.
• Must be flexible, independent and self-motivated.
• Work collaboratively to meet team goals/mission.
• Provides after-hours or weekend maintenance as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Skills/Experience:

• Expert level in SQL server, SSIS services, SSRS, high -availability, SQL Tuning, failover clusters, T SQL, back-up/recovery, database administration, performance tuning
• Intermediate level: RedGate toolset, PowerShell, ETL, Database planning, scaling, and capacity planning
• Excellent written/verbal communication

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