Database Administrator

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc. (SGA) is searching for a Database Administrator for a contract assignment with one of our premier financial services clients in Alpharetta, GA.

Responsibilities :

Write and Maintain Database Programs

Database engineers write new database programs and maintain existing programs to ensure they can handle the flow of traffic and the amount of data being stored in the database.

Design New Databases

Database engineers help design new databases as per business requirement, data storage needs, and the number of users accessing the database.

Monitor Databases and Programs

Database engineers continuously monitor databases and related systems to ensure high functionality.

Automation

Database engineers write new support programs and scripts for databases to deploy, operate, increase data storage capacity and fix existing database problems.

Troubleshooting

Database engineers troubleshoot platform specific performance, checking for potential problems that affect database functionality and related database programs.

Debugging

Database engineers look through coding language to debug existing database scripts and programs.

Review Database Reports

Database engineers review daily, weekly, and monthly database reports, including user reports and systems information, to spot problems and ensure that all databases and support systems are working at peak levels.

Carry out recovery of databases in an event of log full, system crash Troubleshoot issues related to the installation for our supported platforms

Monitor all systems (work processes, users, system logs, short dumps, locks, developer traces, system traces, disk space, etc.).

Ensure production uptime service levels are maintained and made available per requirements that include backup, recovery, refresh, performance tuning, and security

Provide data cleansing services, verify data integrity, and implement access controls

Provide routine maintenance including problem defect analysis and resolution, space, storage, object management, physical database layout, rollback segment management, and temporary space management

Required Skills / Experience :

Expertise in Installation, Upgrade & Patching of different components in Sybase, MS SQL Server, Postgres and experience with the other platforms we manage listed in the Duties and Responsibilities.

Experience with Replication including setup, troubleshooting issues and failovers

Experience with Schema creation, deployment and maintenance

Experience with Setting up and configuration of Auditing, audit trails

Should have knowledge of Disaster Recovery setup and maintenance

Automation using shell-script, python, Ansible, go, etc.

Performance & Tuning Related Expertise

Experience with Performance analysis, monitoring of SQL queries and platform specific tuning.

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission : to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach.

Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it.

You'll join a diverse team built on these core values : customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do.

Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at (url removed).

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