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Senior Database Administrator for our client in Atlanta, GA Job Title: Senior Database Administrator Job Location: Atlanta, GA Job Type: Contract Job Description:- Provide operational support of databases from development to mission-critical production implementations in On-Prem and AWS Cloud environments.
- Coordinate, design, and configure database structures and communication links across multiple database platforms to ensure high availability and minimal downtime.
- Independently analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution database-related incidents and requests.
- Implement database performance metrics measurements to track and analyze database growth.
- Monitor the database (performance, memory, CPU) and assist developers with complex query tuning and schema refinement to increase efficiency in all systems.
- Analyze existing systems and make recommendations on which technology best suits the business requirement for high availability, disaster recovery and/or high performance.
- Perform switchover and failover activities.
- Plan and implement homogeneoheterogeneous migrations of databases from On-prem to AWS EC2.
- Create and manage policies for S3 buckets.
- Analyze archive requirements and implement data archival processes.
- Define backup and recovery strategies using Idera SQLSafe or Native SQL Server Backup/recovery.
- Perform Full database/PTR recoveries per application requirements.
- Work with respective Application owners/developers to ensure proper database security standards are being followed.
- Apply patches and upgrades on the databases in regular intervals as per the security compliance.
- Develop and maintain documentation on Database inventory and Capacity Utilization of the resources.
- Participate in on-call rotations. (After-hours work includes scheduled maintenance, supporting application deployment, and hardware/software upgrades).
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field from an accredited college or university.
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in support of a MS SQL Server database management system.
- Expertise in/hands-on experience working with Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (with working knowledge or previous administration of SQL 2012-SQL 2016 and Windows Server 2012+).
- 2+ years hands-on AWS experience, including knowledge of Amazon RDS, Amazon Migration Services, and database replication across multiple AWS regions.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing highly available production systems using the following technologies: Database Mirroring, Log Shipping, Windows/SQL clustering, and Availability Groups.
- Hands-on experience with SQL Server patching and upgrades.
- Experience with developing scripts for SQL Server Backup, Integrity Check, and Index and Statistics Maintenance.
- MCTS, MCITP, and/or MCDBA certifications are a plus.
- AWS Certification and/or AWS Certified Database – Specialty is an advantage.
- Experience with Oracle 19c.
- Experience in database technologies like Oracle, MS SQL, and AWS DB services like RDS, Amazon Aurora, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
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