Senior Database Administrator at DigiOutsource

Purpose
We are looking for a dynamic highly skilled candidate who is passionate about data to join our Database Administrator team. Our team looks after a large geographically distributed Microsoft SQL Environment that utilizes many of the latest SQL functionality, and constantly seeks to leverage new features as they become available to enhance performance and reduce latency between our systems. Our business is fast paced and requires data that is real time, accurate and responsive. To accomplish this, the team works closely with our Development and Business Intelligence departments to not only provide data, but supply input into best practices to ensure we meet the business expectations. Come join our team and advance your SQL skills to new heights.

Duties Include, But Not Limited To

• Administer Microsoft SQL Server database environments
• T-SQL Scripting and development on both new and existing functions
• Troubleshoot and resolve server, database and data issues
• Security maintenance of server and database
• Maintenance and monitoring of SQL environment
• Provide debugging assistance to development staff with DBMS
• Monitoring and completion of all DBA related ServiceDesk calls
• Backup setup and monitoring
• Participates in providing 7-day/24 hour on-call support.

Essential Requirements

• Minimum 10 years SQL database administration experience
• Relevant SQL certification / degree / diploma
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 / 2012 / 2014 / 2016/ 2017 /2019 experience with database administration, including installation and troubleshooting issues
• Install and configure Reporting services, Power BI, SSIS and Cubes
• T-SQL Scripting experience
• Performance tuning on SQL
• Database Security
• Have in depth SQL internal knowledge
• Backup and recovery experience
• Replication experience
• Always on experience
• Failover clustering experience
• Partitioning experience
• Windows Server and Windows firewall knowledge to support SQL server environment

Desirable Criteria

• SSIS experience
• Support machine learning on SQL to run Python and R on relational databases
• Microsoft Azure SQL Database knowledge and exposure
• Service Broker exposure
• Exposure to Kafka/K SQL

Person Specifications

• Accountability and Execution
• Adaptability / Flexibility
• Initiating Action
• Organisation & Planning
• Priority Setting
• Resilience
• Stress Tolerance
• Team Orientation
• Technical Knowledge
• Tenacity