IT - Consultant | Data On Cloud - Platform | AWS

Job title - MSSQL Database Administrator

Work location - Irvine, CA or San Antonio, TX

- Is it Hybrid, onsite or remote position- Onsite

Please confirm if the candidate can work from any Infosys DC office - Customer place ( - Irvine, CA or San Antonio, TX)

Tentative Start date - ASAP

Contract duration 12 Months

Vendor rate 74.50 USD/ Hr

Minimum years of experience needed in the required skills-10 Yrs

Minimum over all work experience required -10 Yrs

Any certification required Good to have, MSSQL Certified Professional (or equivalent) AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate/Professional

Mandatory skills required -MS SQL server administration and maintenance, MS SQL Server, migration of databases from SQL server to PostgreSQL. Terraform

Complete job description - MSSQL DBA Job Description

Infosys is seeking a MSSQL Database Administrator (DBA). This role requires close partnership and collaboration with other Data Engineers and Subject Matter Experts. This candidate needs to maintain best practices and collaborates with the architecture and application teams to set the technical vision and target architecture. This candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day management of MSSQL Databases in AWS EC2 instance. This role requires deep knowledge of SQL database administration and AWS services, particularly related to daily operations of maintenance, performance tuning, and high availability.

Required Qualifications and Key Requirements :

Bachelor s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education

At least 6 years of Information Technology experience

At least 5 years of experience in MS SQL server administration and maintenance

Able to install and configure the MS SQL Server, configure the SQL clustering/ SQL Always On Availability Groups on AWS environment

Able to do the capacity planning based on the growth pattern of the databases

Have expert troubleshooting skills on the SQL Clustering (Always On) environment.

Monitor, maintain database systems and troubleshoot problems that may arise

Strong Analytic skills, Data Modelling & Performance tuning.

Perform Upgrade of databases to different versions of SQL and migration of databases from SQL server to PostgreSQL

Maintain data integrity and security (manage roles and permissions of database users)

Use tools like SQL Profiler for database tuning.

Generate traces, execution plans, identify performance issues, deadlocks/contention and resolve them

Develop strategies and implement solutions for managing back-ups, restoration and replication

Should be well versed with the SQL replication functions and Change Data capture process

Create and manage stats and indexes

Ensure timely completion of the Databases regular refreshes keeping all the reporting environment in sync

Create detailed documentation including diagrams of database infrastructure

Monitor database health and performance using tools like pgAdmin, AWS CloudWatch, and other monitoring solutions.

Configure and manage PostgreSQL on AWS

Utilize AWS services such as S3, IAM, CloudWatch, and DMS for database operations and migration.

Design and implement disaster recovery strategies, including Multi-AZ deployments and failover configurations.

Learn relevant business processes and understand the data flow, criticality and dependencies

Utilize Terraform, Harness pipelines to deploy the codes

Automate the routine DB management activities.

Certifications (Preferred but not mandatory)
MSSQL Certified Professional (or equivalent)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate/Professional

Interview mode - In person/Virtual - Virtual

How many rounds of interview 2 Rounds

Project Code: Enterprise Cloud Migration Factory