SQL Database Administrator

Position: SQL DBA

Location: Jersey City NJ

Type : Contract & Fulltime

Note: Candidate must have strong performance tuning and scripting experience.

15+ years’ experience in working in IT services organization.

• At least 10+ years of SQL DBA experience covering implementation, production support and project work.

• At least 5+ years of exposure as L3/SME support role.

• Knowledge and Understanding the ITIL process

• In client facing role(s) globally for at least 5 years.

• Excellent communication skills

• On call support for at least 5 years.

• Excellent Documentations skills in MS SharePoint 2010 /2013 Mandatory skills - SQL Server & Cloud administration required skills

• Senior level Microsoft SQL Server DBA with experience in large and critical environments.

• Knowledge of performance tuning at both server level and query level. Candidate must have knowledge of perfmon, SQL Server dynamic management views.

• Knowledge of SQL server internals.

• Knowledge of SQL partitioning and compression

• Hands-on experience on mirroring, replication and Always ON

• Must have automation experience. Good knowledge of scripting. Ability to write T-Sql scripts, Power Shell or Python.

• Excellent knowledge of SSIS packages.

• Hands-on experience on SQL Server Clustering.

• Hands-on experience on Integration Services, Reporting services and Analysis services

• Must have good knowledge in SQL Server permission/security policies

• At least 6 months experience with AWS Cloud RDS

• MySQL knowledge / experience.

• Linux Knowledge

• Experience with SnowFlake

• Must be willing to take responsibility and ownership instead of waiting to be assigned work