SQL database administrator

SQL Database Administrator

Jackson, MS (Remote)

Duration: 30 months

Visa: Open

Responsibilities and Qualifications

• Technically skilled database administrator with a minimum of 8+ years of experience in SQL database administration.
• In this role, the DBA will be the respondent to database problems that arise and carry out periodic maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Help write and optimize in-application SQL statements.
• Ensure performance, security, and availability of databases.
• Prepare documentations and specifications.
• Handle common database procedures such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.
• Profile server resource usage and optimize and tweak as necessary.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Responding in a timely manner to user-reported errors.
• Protecting the database against threats or unauthorized access.
• Ensuring that the database is adequately backed up and able to be recovered in the event of memory loss.
• Reporting on metrics regarding usage and performance. Suggesting changes and improvements for database maintenance or protection.
• Regularly liaising with IT project managers and database programmers.
• Designing databases with both front-end and back-end users in mind.
• Experience with some of the modern relational databases.
• Skilled at optimizing large complicated SQL statements.
• Knowledge of best practices when dealing with relational databases.
• Capable of configuring popular database engines and orchestrating clusters as necessary.
• Ability to plan resource requirements from high level specifications Capable of troubleshooting common database issues.
• Familiar with tools that can aid with profiling server resource usage and optimizing.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as GitLab Familiar with SISS packages.