Staff Site Reliability Engineer- SQL Database Administration

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Job Description

As an engineer on this team, you will be involved in the Plan, Build, and Run aspects of the database technologies, translating into reliability engineering and operational support.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Primarily Database reliability engineering, deployment, and support of Microsoft SQL Server database technology which include both on premise and cloud environments such as AWS and GCP.

Support Database Administration and Engineering in the design, development and deployment, and management of Microsoft SQL database environments. This includes the advanced to expert engineering and implementation of the following: 

• Collaborate with all interested parties, gather requirements, and provide recommendation for database standards.

• Provide technical expertise to design the most efficient and cost-effective solutions for Microsoft SQL Servers.

• Install, configure, monitor, upgrade and maintain MSSQL databases in production and non-production environments.

• Write, Develop, and maintain PowerShell and TSQL scripts for DB automation and application maintenance tasks.

• Advance experience with automation of managerial and repetitive DBA tasks.

• Experience with GENAI to automate database related workloads

• Work closely with other Infrastructure operations and engineering, product development, business operations, and technical operations to ensure delivery of database services within the SLA's and performance target set.

• Provide technical expertise and hands-on support in consolidation and migration of databases to new hardware and platforms.

• Implementation and Support of databases, storage structures, high-availability solutions, replication, encryption, and disaster recovery solutions.

• Manage, support, and maintain Microsoft SQL Server database technology and infrastructure, adhering to the architectural guidelines and policies.

• Database administration for off the shelf and internally developed applications, ensure continuous 24x7 operation and availability in support of mission critical business applications and participating in On-Call support.

• Regular database capacity planning and archival solution related to database growth and system utilization, trend analysis, predictive future database resource requirements, and the structured organized reporting of the same.

• Provide DBA support for enterprise monitoring, backup, alerting, and security compliance solutions for SQL servers.

• Participate in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of DBA tools to improve the effectiveness of tasks such as performance monitoring and tuning, recovery, and database change management processing.

• Proactive and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of database issues.

• Ability to work well as a team and as an individual with minimal supervision.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or other technology field is a must.
• 6-8 years of DBA experience with Microsoft SQL Server databases.
• 2+ years of Cloud experience working on GCP or AWS or Azure
• Strong technical skills in TSQL and PowerShell programming to automate SQL Server operational repetitive tasks.
• 2+ years of experience in leading team of size minimum of 3+ and working with Global teams is a plus for this position.
• Strong knowledge and extensive experience with Microsoft SQL server technologies (all core areas: SSMS, SQL clustering,