Work closely with Application Developers to design, test, implement, perfect and maintain efficient transactional and analytical data models
Lead/engage in tuning, upgrade, and configuration projects to enhance performance and ensure stability
Optimize and keep backup jobs and schedules as well as maintain Production, DR and Development environments
Troubleshoot database and data issues as they occur
Supply Ad Hoc data reporting and data pulls for Analytics teams
Perform various ad-hoc data loading and data manipulation tasks
Manage routine data exports for clients, partners, and SMEs
Create and manage scheduled tasks and data processing scripts
Document data collection, processing, and presentation procedures
Help support architecture and process flow diagrams for data systems
Participates in the evaluation, design, implementation, maintenance, support, and enhancement of sophisticated database systems and technologies.
Manage all levels of database security and integrity, transaction activity and utilization.
Responsible for defining and documenting policies, procedures, and standards related to database administration.
Responsibilities include troubleshooting database issues, recovery, tuning of the database, software installation, resolving SQL Server errors and failures.
Facilitate database backup and recovery as well as documenting and testing all backup and recovery procedures.
Responsible for service level availability for all production and non-production SQL Server environments
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
Setup Test, Dev, Staging and Production Environments. (Installing SQL Server)
Disaster Recovery
Create Linked Servers to SQL Servers and other databases such as Oracle, Access, Informix etc. (Security and General Administration)
Design database Backup and Restoration Strategy. (Database Backups and SQL Server Agent)
Work as part of a team and provide 24x7 support
Once created the database Backups, monitor those backups are being performed regularly. (SQL Server Agent)
From time to time recover the databases to a specific point of time, as per the requests. (Database Backups and Recovery)
Setup High-Availability as part Disaster Recovery Strategy for the Databases. (Failover Clustering, Database Mirroring, Log Shipping and Replication, Always on)
Troubleshoot various problems that arise in a day-to-day work and fix the issues. (Monitoring SQL Server Error Logs and checking your email alert (if there is one configured))
Monitoring and Performance Tuning; Physical Server Level, Database level (Database settings and options) and query tuning. (Creating and maintaining those Indexes, not performing database shrinking, memory settings, monitoring CPU usage and Disk I/O activity etc)
Documenting major changes to the SQL Servers. (General)
Apply Service Packs. (General)
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