Senior Database Administrator
Atlanta, GA 30354 (Some Onsite Required)
Contract Opportunity
ONLY W2 CANDIDATES - NO C2C
Key Skills:
Oracle/PostgreSQL Administration
AWS
Job Description:
We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator to join our team for a 12 month contract in Atlanta, GA (hybrid).
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Required Skills & Experience
- Creating and maintaining high performance, scalable, and stable database solutions.
- Work with customer, 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 process for AWS Cloud based products and services.
- Troubleshoot issues with automations and ensure efficient solutions.
- Collaborate with team members for effective and efficient automations.
- 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 the automated processes and ensure knowledge transfer.
- Mentor other team members on new technologies and automation process.
- 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.
What You Will Be Doing
- Responsible for data analysis and database management.
- Involved in maintenance, enhancement, designing of data dictionaries, physical and logical database models, and performance tuning.
- 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.
- Researches 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 database creations.
- 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
- Provides Escalation Level 2 Technical 24x7 support.
- Performs Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery activities during Business Continuity Plan events.
Thank you!