About the position
Responsibilities
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers, system administrators, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment and coordination.
• Define and enforce technical standards and database best practices across the organization.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, data privacy regulations, and security standards across database platforms.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer and training sessions for relevant personnel.
• Forge strong relationships with Application Development teams to improve the reliability of databases and integration platforms supporting critical applications.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and support to team members.
• Oversee the execution of database migration tasks, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and data integrity.
• Proactively identify opportunities for database optimization, automation, and innovation.
• Conduct performance testing and benchmarking to validate the effectiveness of optimization efforts.
• Tune database configurations, explore query optimization, and define indexing strategies to improve performance and scalability.
• Install, configure, and deploy clustered and standalone Cloud-hosted database systems.
• Manage SQL Server databases through multiple lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems.
• Design, deploy, and maintain all database backup and maintenance plans and processes.
• Ensure 24X7 availability of Cloud-hosted, critical database systems.
• Maintain and improve Service Levels and keep up with department goals for problem resolution.
Requirements
• 10+ Years of experience and advanced proficiency in MSFT SQL Server.
• Experience with Windows Failover Cluster.
• Experience with SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances.
• Experience with SQL Server Availability Groups.
• Experience with Amazon EC2 and RDS for SQL Server.
• Experience with Azure Virtual Machines and SQL Database.
• Experience with Azure MySQL Flexible Server.
• Proficiency in PowerShell for administrative tasks.
• Bachelor's degree in IT related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Intermediate proficiency in Cloud storage options.
• Intermediate proficiency in Cloud networking architecture.
Benefits
• Competitive salary commensurate to related experience (roughly around 120k -135k annually).
• Quality of life with a remote predictable, full-time schedule.
• Medical, Dental, Vision coverage + more.
• 401K with company match.
• Long-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
• Ample parental leave.
• Certification Reimbursement.
• Holidays and Flexible paid time off.
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