Position: MSSQL Database Administrator
Company: Newxel
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Our client is an established research & development company holding the top position in the Middle East market working closely with government organizations in Saudi Arabia. Developing enterprise solutions for private sectors enabled the company to dominate the market and to participate in the government’s digital transformation.
Since then they’ve made a go of a wide range of digital products and services that meet the competitive demands and the needs of clients in both public and private sectors.

Requirements:
 - 5+ years MS SQL Server Administration experience required;
 - Experience with Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools;
 - Excellent SQL Queries optimizations skills;
 - Excellent skills in optimizing queries performance using indexes;
 - Experience with backups, restores, and recovery models;
 - Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server;
 - Experience working with Windows servers, including Active Directory;
 - Excellent written and verbal communication;
 - Flexible, team player, “get-it-done” personality;

Responsibilities:
 - Monitor performance and manage parameters in order to provide fast responses to front-end users;
 - Helping with database design and development;
 - Map out the conceptual design for a planned database;
 - Consider both back-end organization of data and front-end accessibility for end-users;
 - Refine the logical design so that it can be translated into a specific data model;
 - Further refining the physical design to meet system storage requirements;
 - Install and test new versions of the database management system (DBMS);
 - Maintain data standards, including adherence to the Data Protection Act; 
 - Write database documentation, including data standards, procedures, and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata);
 - Control access permissions and privileges;
 - Develop, manage and test backup and recovery plans;
 - Ensure that storage and archiving procedures are functioning correctly; 
 - Carry out capacity planning; 
 - Work closely with IT project managers, database programmers, and multimedia programmers.
 - Communicate regularly with technical, applications, and operational staff to ensure database integrity, security, and performance; 
- Manage the security and disaster recovery aspects of a database.

What we offer:
 - Competitive salary
 - Medical insurance
 - Tax compensation
 - Modern and comfortable office near the Vystavkovyi center (remote during the quarantine).
 - Hybrid work model: a mixture of in-office and remote work
 - Long-term employment with 20 working days paid vacation
 - Paid sick leaves (10 per year)