Position: Sr. SQL Sever DBA

Up to $105K+ DOE + Bonus - Excellent total package
Local Candidates Only

Location: Boston, MA Area

Company:

Mid-Sized, successful, and growing Boston based global investment management company - Great Company - Lots of Upside - Excellent Compensation Package - Bonus

Position Responsibilities - Summary:

The Database Administration and architecture team is responsible for supporting and architecture of a global SQL environment. Responsibilities would encompass day-to-day administration, daily maintenance and optimization tasks and assisting developers in the creation of new databases. The team also provides support to all vendor and packaged applications that use SQL server as a backend.

Reporting to the Manager of Database and Architect, this senior level DBA would assist in providing world class support and leadership to our developers, application support and business teams.

Position Responsibilities - Detailed:

- Manage a production environment consisting of 300+ databases, and 30 production SQL Server’s, most of which are read-intensive databases with a large data load cycle while some are OLTP-based mission critical trading systems

- Spearhead the restructuring and management of the production level backup and restore processes

- Manage HA solutions such as MS Cluster Server, XOSoft, PolyServe, SQL Replication, etc

- Manage DR solutions such as Database Mirroring, Log Shipping, Double-Take GeoCluster, SQL Replication

- Assist in the development of a GDOC (Global Database Operations Center) where our systems will be continuously monitored via 3rd party products, in-house scripts and a operational dashboard

- Manage the database security models, both in-house developed as well as Windows Auth (AD) based security. Also develop policies to restrict over-privileging and enforce it

- Provide 24×7 support to all mission critical production level systems

- Develop custom scripts to automate various database management processes (e.g. programmatically searching for non-indexed tables)

- Leverage 3rd party tools (e.g. Red-Gate) or in-house developed tools to troubleshoot

- Safeguard our production systems by implementing the right security policies as well as managing the MS service pack/hotfix deployment process

- Assist in the migration of SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 and/or 2008

- Assist in the database release management process, be the “gate-keeper” and ensure only QUALITY code is released into production

- Help troubleshoot performance problems using a variety of methods (tracing, query optimization review, error logs, etc)

- Resolve blocking and deadlocking issues, high CPU / memory, analyze job timeouts, ETL loader performance problems, etc

- Create and maintain database maintenance jobs (DBCC integrity validations, index defragmentation, statistics creation/updating, error log scraping, etc)

- Enforce our database standards, best practices, methodologies, processes and procedures, etc

- Assist in the build out of our SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 (SSAS) OLAP databases

- Provide development and production support for complex SSIS packages

- Architect and implement reports within SQL Server Reporting Services 2000/2005

- Research new technologies to enhance performance, heighten security, ensure uptime, automate common/redundant administrative duties

- Define and maintain critical documentation including: Database Standards, Naming Conventions, Administrative Techniques, Troubleshooting Techniques, Processes, Rules and Regulations, Change Management, Best Practices, etc.

Required Skills and Competencies:

Mandatory Requirements:

- An average of 5-6+ years total IT experience

- An average of 4-5+ years Database Administration (Includes Development, QA experience)

- An average of 1-2+ years Systems / Network / Application Administration

- Knowledge of the financial industry is preferred

Artifacts of Database Administration Experience:

- Experience with managing and implementing High Availability (HA) solutions for SQL Server 2005 (e.g. XOSoft, Clustering ) - Experience with managing and implementing DR solutions for SQL Server 2005 (e.g. DB Mirroring, SAN replication, etc)

- Database monitoring software (e.g. NetIQ, HP Openview, BMC, SiteScope, etc) and advanced monitoring techniques

- Experience with VLDB’s - 100+ GB databases, hundreds of DB’s in a highly transactional environment

- Familiar with query performance analysis, improvements and troubleshooting performance degradation

- Familiar with the new facets of SQL Server 2005 (e.g. table partitioning, mirroring, full-text management, indexed views, security management, etc)

- Experience with resolving complex blocking and deadlocking issues and automated ways of doing so

- Familiar with back-end database maintenance tasks such as integrity validations and backup/restore management

- Experience with security as it pertains to databases (permissions, users, roles, policies, etc)

- Experience writing comprehensive and descriptive documentation

Artifacts of Development Experience:

- Understanding of the database development lifecycle, including database creation, table design, etc.

- Familiar with ETL tools, primarily with SSIS 2005 however Informatica, DTS, Ab Inition, etc

- Experience supporting the development and deployment of complex SSIS packages

- Experience with architecting and implementing reports within SQL Server Reporting Services 2000/2005

- Experience in the management of OLAP databases, most specifically with SSAS 2005

- Understanding of Front-End Applications and Middle-Tier Systems (.NET, COM+, etc)

- Solid grasp of primarily T-SQL, however experience in .NET (C#/VB) will not be discounted

Artifacts of Systems Administration Experience:

- Experience with configuring server hardware for optimal performance, this spans CPU, RAM, Network, RAID, SAN/NAS/DAS devices

- Network Hardware and Supporting Services (Routers, Switches, Firewalls, etc)

- Knowledgeable about operating systems (e.g. Windows 2003)

- User management systems and security administration (e.g. Active Directory, GPO’s, Security Policies, relevancy to SQL Servers)

- Network knowledge (Routers, Switches, Firewalls, SNMP, DNS, NFS, CIFS, DHCP)

Candidate Characteristics:

- Impeccable verbal and written communication skills

- Highly ambitious individuals with the desire to go above and beyond

- Detail-oriented with very strong organizational skills

- Ability to work effectively and efficiently with little or no supervision

- Strategic, structured, and focused thinker who has strong analytical and problem solving skills

- Highly motivated, positive and passionate about the work they do

- Extremely strong interpersonal skills

- Strong accountability and results orientation

- Highly professional demeanor with well rounded business acumen

- Ability to work and quickly react in a fast paced environment

- Ability to effectively translate technical jargon into business terms during face to face customer interactions

- Ability to make powerful split second decisions

- Ability to perform self and team project management (prior technical leadership roles)

- Ability to scope projects, create project plans, and manage deliverables & deadlines

- Ability to productively multi-task

Compensation:

Up to $105K+ DOE + Bonus - Excellent total package - Comprehensive Benefits Package

No Sponsorship Available - US Based Applicants Only - No Relocation Available - Local Candidates only

Contact Information:

Gary Wright - President - Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354
Email - ReplyWrightAssociates AT Verizon DOT Net
Website - www.wrightassociates.org