Senior Database Administrator [MS SQL]
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Kuwait City, KuwaitPosted 6 years ago128Applicants for1 open position
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Job Description
- Install, configure, administer and secure MS SQL Server databases using Windows.
- Install, configure, administer and secure MS SQL Server VNext databases using Linux RH 7.X.
- Assisting DBA teams in Database performance analysis, diagnosis and tuning (SQL Query Optimization, Storage and Network performance, CPU and Memory tuning, IO Load balancing etc.).
- Participate in capacity planning, trend analysis, performance forecasting exercises and propose recommendations to meet the ongoing performance and scalability demands.
- Successfully resolving SQL Server problems in conformance with SLAs, which involves in-depth knowledge of SQL Server architecture, connectivity, replication, SSIS, backup/restore
- Perform SQL Server version upgrades, migrations and deployment changes to production databases.
- Create and maintain technical documentation and implement database related policies.
- Create and support SQL Server clustering and replication (log shipping or database mirroring) for servers in several domains.
- Create and manage multiple databases and assist in capacity planning.
- Create and manage constraints and indexes.
- Support software developers with database operations including the development of complex SQL tuning of DML and the creation of stored procedures.
- Identify performance issues, deadlocks/contention and resolve them.
- Maintain data integrity and security (manage roles and permissions of database users).
- Troubleshoot SQL Server service outages as they occur, including after-hours and weekends.
- Configure SQL Server monitoring utilities to minimize false alarms.
- Deploy database change scripts provided by third party vendors.
- Designed and delivered high availability and disaster recovery technologies for the Database systems (management, monitoring and tuning).
- Applying solutions and tools for Databases management systems to enhance performance and monitoring.
- Work with geo-clustering technology for high availability and disaster recovery (manage, monitoring and maintaining).
- Perform SQL Server version upgrade, migrations & deploy changes to production databases.
- Keep tracking the new updates provided by Microsoft to keep systems up to date and healthy, and ensure it’s applicable with the company security and audit observations.
- Designed and implemented comprehensive Backup plan and disaster recovery strategies.
- Manage Microsoft SSIS packages, stored procedures, jobs, and utilize Server Side tracing to identify performance issues.
- Analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
Job Requirements
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 - SQL 2016 Administration
- High experience in high availability and disaster recovery administration Geocluster,
- Microsoft cluster servers and Always On Availability Groups.
- Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (MS SSIS) designing, coding and administration.
- SQL Server clustering and HA technologies including mirroring, log shipping, failover cluster and various replication technologies.
- MS Reporting server configuration and administration.
- Performance Tuning & Capacity Monitoring.
- Data Security, Backup & Recovery.
- Standby/Failover Administration.
- ETL (Extract-Transform-Load)
- SQL server profiler for monitoring
