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Database Administrator

Contract: plano, Texas, US

Salary Range: 55.00 - 65.00 Per Hour

Job Code: 360628

End Date: 2025-05-03
Days Left: 20 days, 3 hours left

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Position Details:

Client

Financial Services

Job Title

Database Administrator Specialist

Duration

6 Months (Contract to hire)

Location

Mclean, VA / Plano TX

Pay rate: $55 - $65/hr

Responsibilities:

• Database engineering team looking for a skilled Database Engineer to provide database production support in a fast-paced operations environment supporting business critical applications using backend MS-SQL database platforms.
• As a MSSQL Database Engineer, play a critical role in ensuring the performance, security, and scalability of our databases and collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software developers, data analysts, and system administrators, to deliver efficient and reliable database solutions.
• Provide expertise in SQL programming, database architecture, and troubleshooting will be essential in optimizing database performance and resolving complex technical issues.

Required Skills

• More than seven years of experience working as a production support database administrator (DBA)

• Strong database administration experience on MS-SQL Server

• Experience in installation, configuration and migration with MS-SQL database platforms.

• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes

• Strong database performance tuning skills - query optimization and server tuning with MSSQL platforms

• Possesses deep understanding of MSSQL internals and Optimizer functioning and ability to apply the skills to trouble-shoot real time production issues

• Provide deployment support for database objects in production and test environment

• Extremely comfortably in power shell scripting with prior experience in writing and maintaining complex scripts to perform database maintenance.

• Experience in migrating SQL platform to industry standard versions.

• Execute large database migration projects independently

• Experience with standard database monitoring.

• Understanding of industry standard High Availability and DR technologies

• Experience with providing 24x7 production on-call support on rotation basis

• Effective verbal and writing communication skills

• Experience in ansible automation is preferable

• Experience with data security and compliance with industry standards

• Experience on other platforms Sybase or PostgreSQL and No-SQL like Mongo is preferable

Job Requirement

• mssql
• database
• dba
• postgresql

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