Position: DBA Support Engineer (MS SQL)
Company: Forte Group
Category: SQL
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2020-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

In addition, the team will be partnering with the client development team on optimization tasks as well as ongoing planned project work and participate in on-premises MS SQL database migration into Azure SQL.

Responsibilities:
- Provide monitoring and on-call support for DB instances on production during scheduled shifts
- Provide on-demand support for non-production DB instances
- Development of both physical and logical database design in partnership with the development team and configuration of administrative functions
- Help the team to develop an SQL Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy and the associated tasks
- Maintain continuity between Stage, Production and DR SQL Servers
- Monitor system's health and performance using a combination of tools including Idera, ipMonitor, and DataDog
- Respond to production incidents registered in ServiceNow according to the agreed SLA
- Ensure high levels of performance, availability, sustainability, and security of the SQL databases
- Analyze, solve, communicate and correct issues in real-time per agreed SLA
- Perform scheduled maintenance and support deployment activities

Required Experience and Skills:
- Knowledge of administering Microsoft SQL Server databases
- Work experience as an MS SQL Server DBA
- Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and provisioning of SQL Server Databases
- Experience with SQL programming and DB configuration
- Understanding of database lifecycles - builds, patching, backups, recoveries, tuning
- Troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities
- Experience with DB performance monitoring tools would be a plus
- Experience working with ticketing systems, like ServiceNow or similar
- Experience with task management tools like Azure DevOps or Jira
- Readiness to work with minimal direction and supervision
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
- Intermediate English level or higher
- Readiness to work in the evening shift (3 pm-11 pm)