Specialist System Engineer - Database Administrator

Job Summary – MS-SQL DBA L2 with good knowledge on Always-ON, Clustering, Performance Tuning, PostgreSQL or MongoDB technology support is an added advantage

Responsibilities: 

• Providing 24* 7 database support including incidents, requests & changes.
• Providing on-call database support during weekends & out of business hours.
• Provide 24x7 support for critical production systems.
• Strong knowledge on Production Database Operations & understanding the importance of BAU
• Good Knowledge on ITIL Framework
• Effective communication (Written & Verbal)
• Experience on Incident Mgt and managing Crises calls by engaging with Vendors & Clients
• Strong analysis skills, Problem Solving and Decision making
• Willing to accept/take responsibility and problem ownership
• Skill-up on new concepts, features and Open source technology and being Mentors
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
• Planning and execution of PSU Patching & Upgradation of SQL Server (Legacy Mgt)
• Good Experience on automating PSU Patching, installations and other BAU tasks
• Experience in using Performance Monitor, SQL Profiler and optimizing the queries, tracing long running queries, blockings and deadlocks.
• Account Management (Login Creation, Deletion, Profile Modification) & managing Security/Audit parameters
• Knowledge on index de-fragmentation, re-indexing and update the index statistics
• Configuration & Monitoring High Availability, Log-Shipping, DB Mirroring, Replication, Clustering and Always-ON
• Periodical Backups of the database and timely recovery when required. Scheduling the automated backup jobs
• Scheduling, Monitoring and Troubleshooting SQL Agent Jobs/Autosys Maintenance Jobs & Maintenance Plans

 
Knowledge, Skills & Experience 

• Must have good team working skills balanced with ability to work in shifts (24x7 on rotation basis) / ability to work alone and a positive attitude.
• Provide 24x7 support for critical production systems.
• Strong knowledge on Production Database Operations & understanding the importance of BAU
• Good Knowledge on ITIL Framework
• Effective communication (Written & Verbal)
• Experience on Incident Mgt and managing Crises calls by engaging with Vendors & Clients
• Good knowledge on Presentation skills with PPT and expert in Excel with functions & Macros
• Good Experience on Client projects/domain, End-to-End Project management, setting-up technology Roadmap
• Strong analysis skills, Problem Solving and Decision making
• Planning and execution of PSU Patching & Upgradation of SQL Server (Legacy Mgt)
• Good Experience on automating PSU Patching, installations and other BAU tasks
• Experience in using Performance Monitor, SQL Profiler and optimizing the queries, tracing long running queries, blockings and deadlocks.
• Account Management (Login Creation, Deletion, Profile Modification) & managing Security/Audit parameters
• Knowledge on index de-fragmentation, re-indexing and update the index statistics
• Configuration & Monitoring High Availability, Log-Shipping, DB Mirroring, Replication, Clustering and Always-ON
• Periodical Backups of the database and timely recovery when required. Scheduling the automated backup jobs
• Scheduling, Monitoring and Trouble shooting SQL Agent Jobs/Autosys Maintenance Jobs & Maintenance Plans
• Trouble Shooting and fixing Data corruption (Page, table level)
• Preparing/Updating SOPs documents (Technical & Operational)
• Good to have skills / Experience – Experience of handling very large environment, min 500+ SQL Instances and TB's of database size

Education and Qualifications

• 5- 8 years of experience
• Engineering graduate / MCA / Computer Science Graduate or PG. 
• Any relevant RDBMS certification is an added advantage.

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