Full Time position
Raleigh, NC
Job Summary
Want to make a difference with your DBA skills? The fastest growing cloud-based workforce management solution in the healthcare market, is seeking a team-player with a natural propensity to share concepts and techniques as well as foster and encourage sharing of knowledge. The DBA will be the subject matter expert in the data workloads assisting development teams in creating and optimizing existing customer assets.
Primary Duties
The Senior Database Administrator (DBA) is largely responsible for providing operational and development support services for our SQL Server database environments. Primary responsibilities of this role include owning, tracking, and resolving database related incidents and requests, performance tuning, backups, patching, remediation of security vulnerabilities. This role also requires a service oriented mentality, a high sense of ownership of the problems and requests assigned, a focus on managing and resolving issues, as well as initiating and performing changes on production systems.
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of experience as a production environment DBA
Experience with SQL Server 2014 or later in a Windows environment.
In depth knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server databases, including experience working with transactional replication, performance tuning and optimization.
Experience with database backup and restore, disaster recovery and security.
Advanced knowledge of the SQL Server Engine for performance tuning and optimization, INNER OUTER/JOINS, CROSS/OUTER APPLIES, UNIONS etc.
Ability to optimize complex queries to achieve sub-millisecond performance gains through query benchmarking
Expert knowledge of database design concepts, stored procedures, triggers, views and SSIS/SSRS packages
Experience with monitoring tools and troubleshooting database performance issues. Ability to install and configure new server instances and upgrade existing ones.
Ensure all database servers are backed up in a way that meets the business's Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)
Test backups to ensure we can meet the business' Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) Manage DDL scripts for multiple environments DEV/UAT/PROD
General ability to support and optimize advanced and complex queries
Preferred Qualities • Experience with data warehousing, data marts, data lakes • Experience with BI and Analytics • Experience with Dashboards • Knowledge of Dimensional Modeling.
