Senior Database Engineer - Microsoft SQL

Do you have the desire to be part of a growing and innovative team? Is a culture where “People Count” and “We do the Right Thing” important to you? If so, Guardian Life Insurance Company is actively seeking a passionate, driven Senior, Database Engineer to provide operational support for Guardian Database Systems, design and build database systems using automation in both data center and cloud platforms, including identifying build defects and create self-healing routines.

You are

Seeking to work in a world class database technologist team where our mission is to “Design, Build, Deliver, and Maintain database systems that are issue-free, always available, highly secure, and peak performing”.  Able to assess issues quickly performing various database techniques to restore performance and stability. A fast-paced learner who is eager to learn more about enterprise database technologies who has many of the desired technology competencies listed below.

You will

• Be part of an on-call rotation providing 24x7x365 incident and outage response, including non-business hours support
• Perform initial investigation and/or troubleshooting of database and database system issues to resolve issue & determine root cause
• Process all support requests within SLA by following procedural requirements
• Escalate to vendors, where necessary, to ensure timely resolution
• Thoroughly document steps taken to resolve incidents and fulfill catalog requests within ServiceNow tickets
• Develop, document, and update standard operating procedures and knowledgebase articles
• Identify, address, and resolve repeating alert trends to improve stability and performance
• Suggest defects and product/infrastructure enhancements to improve stability and automation
• Participation in periodic skills enhancement sessions and training courses
• Be a project lead, as well as a project participant for various activities: cloud migration, lifecycle management, application modernization, capacity planning, financial optimization, performance, and stability optimization, build and design state configuration automation, etc.

You have

• 10+ years of MS SQL Server DBA experience
• Thorough knowledge of implementing and maintaining security controls in a highly regulated industry with MS SQL databases
• MS SQL Server replication, always on, and mirroring experience
• SQL coding and tuning experience
• Power Shell scripting and automation experience
• SQL Server Management Studio experience
• Working knowledge of SSIS and SSRS
• AWS/Cloud Services experience: EC2, RDS, and Aurora Cloud deployments experience:
• Hands-on, technically adept DBA, capable of performing required DB tasks
• Strong troubleshooting/performance tuning skills
• Ability to assess and improve SQL performance
• Understanding of MS SQL Server underlying storage engine
• Ability to Handle common database procedures, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.
• Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary
• Expert level MS SQL Server RDBMS installation/configuration, patching, troubleshooting, performance tracking/tuning, back-up/recovery, remote monitoring skills with hands-on experience in large and very dynamic environments
• Strong commitment to following SDLC/Change-Management principles
• Self-starter and be able to perform work with minimal supervision
• Knowledge of data quality, data management, and data testing strategies and practices
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written
• Strong experience working with ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Zenoss, Foglight, or o