Senior SQL Database Admin

The Database Administrator has the responsibility of administering, monitoring, and troubleshooting a 24x7 production environment database servers and associated infrastructure. The Senior Database Administrator will work with other team members to ensure 100% uptime, plan future capacity requirements, maintain security, and apply updates. 

• Monitoring the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime. 
• Resolving technical issues related to SQL server and other databases. 
• Performing ongoing performance tuning of databases. 
• Providing trend analysis to the service management team enabling them to make informed decisions regarding resource management. 
• Analyzing and resolving performance issues, database capacity issues, replication, always on , cluster , log shipping ,Mirroring. 
• Monitoring and reporting on resource intensive applications and suggest ways to improve performance. 
• Reviewing system and application logs and verify completion of scheduled jobs such as backups. 
• Delivering SQL related components for approved projects on time and with high quality. 
• Completing routine requests for changes/modifications/additions to SQL Servers. 
• Implementing service packs and cumulative updates. 
• Ensuring all database servers are managed to Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). 
• Configuring SQL Server monitoring utilities to minimize false alarms. 
• Determining the most effective way to increase performance, including hardware purchases, server configuration changes, or index/query changes.