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job summary:
Our Major Financial Client is looking for a Database Administrator.
Technical Must Haves: SQL Server Database Admin, with a focus on clustering and high availability.
Soft Skill Must Haves: Excellent communication, leadership, team player.
Desired Skills:
Experience supporting Sybase database platform under Unix/Linux platforms
Experience with Unix/Linux OS platform and Unix Shell/Perl scripting
Experience with Database monitoring tools such as Foglight
Good understanding of other Microsoft products such SSRS and SSAS
Experience working in virtual environment using VMware
Database performance tuning skills
Database vendor certification
Basic Requirements:
More than 7 years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server using 2005/2008/2012/2014
Solid understanding of Database technology - MS SQL Server and Sybase/or any DB platform
Solid Database performance tuning
Deep knowledge of industry-standard, enterprise-class best practices for a large database environment
Good understanding of windows platform and SQL 2008,2012
Deep understanding of HA, DR Database and storage technologies like Data replication, SRDF/non-SRDF
Experience with Solaris, Linux and Windows platforms
location: Reston, Virginia
job type: Contract
salary: $55.99 - 59.38 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
Provide Database Engineering support on all aspects of Microsoft SQL Server including administration, backup/recovery, replication, deployment and real time production troubleshooting responsibilities on MS SQL Server 2008/2008R2/2012/2014 DB environments.
Install, configure, monitor, upgrade and maintain database in production and non-production environments
Diagnose and address database performance issues using performance monitors and SQL profiler
Interact with Windows administrators on Windows server operating systems issues related to Databases
Maintain internal database maintenance script written in PowerShell and Batch scripts
Configure and maintain 'Always-on' features for Database High availability
Support data replication using SQL replication for reporting database environments
Troubleshoot database production problems and database connectivity issues
Implement HA and DR solutions using Windows clustering, Always-On and SRDF/SRM solutions
Ability to work well as a team and as an individual with minimal supervision
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