Sr. Database Administrator

Sr. Database Administrator
Long term contract
Atlanta, GA
Qualifications:

• Creating and maintaining high performance, scalable, and stable database solutions.
• Work with customers, deployment squads, and product management to identify and document use case scenarios.
• Lead on all data solution aspects including setting data standards and providing your deep technical expertise to
• development teams for best practices, systems, and architectures.
• Design databases solutions that are highly available and meet disaster recovery requirements.
• Design effective data store solutions that account for effective capacity planning, data tiering, and data life-cycle management
• Design, Develop and maintain automated systems for processing AWS Cloud based products and services.
• Troubleshoot issues with automation and ensure efficient solutions.
• Collaborate with team members for effective and efficient automation.
• Evaluate existing automation process and identify area of improvement.
• Monitor and validate performance and functionality of the automated processes to ensure the objectives of automation are met.
• Develop and maintain documentation for automated processes and ensure knowledge transfer.
• Mentor other team members on new technologies and automation processes.
• Work with QA to create detailed test plans and needed tooling to account targeted performance for production volume data
• Ensure the successful delivery of solutions, training, and documentation, internally and with customers
• Recommend solutions to improve new and existing database systems.
• Participate in code reviews and create documentation for engineering and cross-functional practices.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure end-to-end technical and business viability.
• Learn new database technologies as necessary.

Responsibilities:

• The Database Administrator is responsible for data analysis and database management. Database Administrators typically are involved in maintenance, enhancement, designing of data dictionaries, physical and logical database models, and performance tuning.
• Database Administrators are also responsible for understanding, configuring, and managing database administration tools.
• Provides database support for business applications and schedules back up jobs for user databases.
• Provides access control (password resets /account creation/deletion) and checks IP compliance (violation report review, compliance updates and compliance set ups).
• Performs data purging and data replication activities.
• Research on connectivity issues and recurring errors in Application database.
• Responds to database alerts and takes appropriate actions.
• Provides escalation Level 1 and 2 Technical 24x7 support.
• Performs performance tuning and troubleshooting for database.
• Performs application database maintenance and provides technical assistance to users.
• Manages database account access and database object changes.
• Ensures that monitoring and alerts are properly in place to meet monitoring requirements.
• Performs application database and OS scripting.
• Reviews Information Protection compliance reports and notifications for individual databases and internal processes (including compliance updates and compliance set ups).
• Performs data purging and data replication activities
• Performs database recovery from logs, hot & cold backups, Export/Imports and Disaster Recovery.
• Performs database creation decommissioning and database updates/migrations to a higher/lower version or cross platform migrations. Also involved in database, schema, and object refresh activities.
• Monitors and reports existing database Instance, Database, Server activities for CPU, Memory, and Cach, logs performance, and recommends effective resource utilization/emergency recovery procedures
• Performs Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery activities during Business Continuity Plan events.
• Plans, schedules, and implements operating system software installs and patches (including 3rd party tools) using change management and release management processes.
• Implements database security and auditing features and periodic reviews.
• Conducts root cause analysis for repeated incidents.
• Performs heterogeneous database interface deployment and support for various data interfaces with applications, Middleware interface and functionality deployment with database architecture.
• Plans and develops processes for database updates and migrations to a higher/lower version or cross platform migrations, Also, involved in database, schema and object refresh activities.
• Develops capacity planning processes that include monitoring of existing database Instance, Database, Server activities for CPU, Memory, Cache, Logs performance and recommends effective utilization of resources and emergency recovery procedures.
• Conducts team training and is responsible for resource management.
• Provides Business Continuity Planning/Disaster Recovery support.
• Research new technologies to address operations reliability and compliance. -implement's and performs configuration management of database cluster and replications.

Comments/Special Instructions
SKILLSET -Database automation in AWS with RDS. Preferable: Oracle /Postgres
"All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran."