Position: Database Engineer Team Lead
Company: STO
Category: SQL
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Our ideal candidate has vast experience in Microsoft SQL Server administration and maintenance, both on-premises and in the cloud. Also, we expect you have proven experience in managing teams, fluent English, and great communication skills.

At the company, your key responsibilities will be to lead the operational data management team, which maintains multiple customers’ workloads. Other exciting things you will get to do once employed as a Lead Database Engineer include:
- 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

The company expects you to work closely with several customers, helping them achieve IT goals, keeping up the highest standards, and strengthening their trust.

**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 an 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.