Our team is looking to bring on board a highly skilled Senior MS SQL Server DBA Engineer with AWS migration experience. This role requires a hands-on professional adept at building, managing, and optimizing large-scale SQL database systems on-premises and in the cloud, capable of transforming database infrastructures to leverage AWS capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Build infrastructure in AWS for scalable and efficient data delivery solutions
• Maintain and manage high-volume database infrastructure on AWS
• Migrate database servers from on-premises to AWS environments
• Monitor and manage database systems and data pipelines supporting critical business products
• Troubleshoot engineering and production issues and provide hands-on expertise to resolve critical problems
• Support and optimize multi-terabyte database systems through tuning and administration
• Investigate and resolve data replication latency issues
• Develop automation solutions to improve team efficiency and infrastructure functionality
• Coordinate database/software releases across all environments, including QA, Pre-Production, Production, and DR
• Analyze and solve complex problems using cost/benefit analysis to implement effective solutions
• Diagnose and address real-time database engine and query performance issues
• Collaborate with IT, server management, and peer groups to resolve incidents in a timely manner
• Participate in cross-functional projects with operations, development, and QA teams
• Review existing processes and recommend improvements using new methods or tools
• Build and maintain best-in-class product support resources (e.g., run books, monitoring processes, tools, knowledge bases)
• Ensure ongoing cloud, virtual, and bare-metal database infrastructure support
  
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering
• 6+ years of work experience in IT
• 4+ years of hands-on database administration, support, and performance tuning experience on any relational database like Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL or Oracle
• 2+ years of expertise in building AWS Data Migration Services or other ETL tools
• Good administration knowledge in Microsoft SQL Server
• Good familiarity/experience with AWS, specifically infrastructure automation capabilities
• Good knowledge of Python or PowerShell
• Excellent communication skills, including strong verbal and written proficiencies