Position: Senior DBA (SQL Server)
Company: EPAM Systems
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

**Qualifications**

Three years of experience as an Oracle DBA in mission-critical production environments including installations, upgrades, patching, and troubleshooting.
Extensive experience in Linux including troubleshooting commands, sh/awk/Perl.
Complete and detailed understanding of Oracle database architecture
Experienced at performing all routine DBA activities including installation, upgrade, patching, and database management.
Performance troubleshooting, monitoring, and tuning skills including reviewing and analyzing AWR reports and query execution plans.
Experience with schema design and modeling.
High level of confidence to perform DB switchovers, failovers, and recovery.

The initial focus will be on database query automation using MS SQL Server toolset.

**Required skills:**

Good RDBMS and SQL knowledge
Understands SQL Server - including the following
  -Differences between Azure SQL Databases and databases in a SQL Server instance
  -Performance troubleshooting and monitoring
  -Database access from the use of AD logins to database roles
Expertise in performance tuning and optimization, bottleneck problems analysis
Solid technical expertise and troubleshooting skills
Experience in effective upgrades would be useful
Good communication skills
Ready to go the extra mile
Good verbal and written English

**Responsibility:**

Implementation of changes in MS SQL database schema and stored procedures according to a new design.
Optimization of processing of data.
Optimization and refactoring of stored procedures.

WE OFFER
•	Social package - medical insurance, sports
•	Compensation for sick lists and regular vacations
•	English classes with native speakers (certified English teachers)
•	Workspace freedom (office or remote) and flexible working hours 
•	Possibility to work on full product lifecycle –from concept to delivery into production
•	Mentorship program
•	Guaranteed professional growth through the technology training and technology communities inside EPAM, unlimited courses, and training at top learning portals and schools
•	Proactive Agile/Scrum/XP practitioners
•	Wide portfolio of modern internal courses and certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure)
•	Ability to pick project and technology stack to join
•	Attending / Participation in and contributing to internal DevOps school