Senior Database Administrator / Data Engineer - SQL Server

Verizon Communications; Alpharetta (GA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Verizon Connect currently seeks an experienced Database Administrator in the Atlanta, GA region to join our Global Database Services team. This role requires ownership of production database operations, incident resolution, and proactive problem management across a high-transaction OLTP environment.

You will work in a hybrid model with on-site and remote work, performing backups, restores, monitoring, and tuning, while collaborating with DB engineering to implement scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant Database administration experience in a large data environment.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL Server 2019 & 2022; managing SQL Server in AWS RDS.

Responsibilities

• Own, track and resolve database incidents and requests.
• Fulfilling requests and resolving incidents within SLAs.
• Reviewing backups, maintenance, and monitoring daily to detect issues.
• Responding to alerts and escalating with DB engineering for recurring problems.
• Enhance automation for database provisioning.
• Improve monitoring and alerting to ensure proactive notifications.

Skills

SQL Server

AWS RDS

T-SQL

Performance Tuning

Backup/Recovery

Monitoring/Alerting

HA/High Availability

Powershell/Python

Security

OLTP

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS RDS

Job description

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

Verizon Connect has an immediate need for an experienced Database Administrator based in the Atlanta Georgia region to join our Global Database Services team. The ideal associate will be a highly competent, results driven as well as a highly self-motivated individual.

This DBA role requires a service oriented mentality, high sense of ownership of the problems and requests assigned, focus on managing and resolving issues in a prompt & efficient manor, establishing and maintaining communication with technology customers to keep them updated with status of their requests, initiating and performing changes on production systems and proactively escalating any issues that cannot be resolved within the established timeframes.

Responsibilities:

• Owning, tracking and resolving database related incidents and requests.
• Fulfilling requests and resolving incidents within SLAs.
• Reviewing service-related reports (e.g. database backups, maintenance, monitoring) on a daily basis to ensure operational issues are identified and resolved promptly.
• Responding to database related alerts and escalations and working with database engineering to come up with strategic solutions to recurring problems.
• Enhancing automation for database platform provision process
• Enhancing database monitoring & alerting platforms to ensure proactive alerting is always achieved.

What we’re looking for... You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Four or more years of relevant Database administration experience in a large data environment
• Deep understanding of SQL Server database architecture and internal components with particular focus on :-
  • Re-indexing (high transaction throughput OLTP platform)
  • Statistics
  • Partition maintenance (high transaction throughput OLTP platform)
  • H/A implementations
  • Backups, restores & Point-in-time recovery
  • Security
  • Monitoring & alerting
• Advanced knowledge of Database Administration on the SQL Server (2019 & 2022)
• Advanced knowledge of Troubleshooting and resolving database problems in a high transaction OLTP environment.
• Advanced knowledge of Database Performance Tuning & Optimization and Query cost management
• Advance knowledge of writing, debugging and tuning of T-SQL code
• Experience in Managing SQL Server in an AWS RDS environment.
• Significant operational and support experience with large data platforms
• Experience with scripting/automation (Powershell / Python / sparc preferred).

Even better if you have:

• Experience with other management & support activities with other relational database platforms (PostgreSQL, MySQL) in an AWS environment.
• Experience with ownership & management of ElasticSearch in AWS
• Experience with ownership & management of Redshift in AWS
• Experience in working as part of a geographically dispersed team
• Ability to learn new technologies and scripting languages
• Ability to work in a fast paced, high volume, agile environment.
• Ability to approach problems with a sense of ownership, enthusiasm and innovation

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

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