Position: Lead Database Engineer (DBA)
Company: ABCloudZ
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Your future activities:
- Enhancing the effectiveness of customers’ databases and related applications
- Assuring that data complies with legal and compliance regulations
- Protecting and securing data, creating and managing backups
- Troubleshooting occurring issues and addressing administrative duties
- Establishing proactive monitoring and developing recommendations for continuous improvement
- Collaboration and conversation with customers’ teams
- Constant improvement of the existing support processes
- Moving databases to the clouds and integration with cloud services
- Setting up and managing disaster recovery and high availability solutions
- Monitoring and improving systems’ performance, creating optimization roadmaps
- Research, test, and develop systems maintenance and upgrade plans for new technologies and versions
- Coordination of developers, systems administrators, and other groups to implement various database-related tasks

Requirements:
5+ years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2014, 2016, 2017 and Azure SQL Database administration.
- Proven expertise in SQL Server performance tuning, as well as managing HA and DR solutions.
- Practical experience in database design and writing T-SQL code, PowerShell scripts.
- Excellent communication skills, at least the Upper-intermediate level of English.
- Inspirational team management, proven leadership experience.
- Ability to build team strategies and simplify processes inside the team.

Will be a plus:
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL databases.
- Knowledge of cloud database management specifics.
- Familiarity with database migrations.