Position: DataBase Administrator
Company: Scorum
Category: SQL
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

ABOUT POSITION
As a Production Database Administrator, you will be responsible for maintaining the day to day availability of all database servers. 
The team works on MS SQL Server database servers utilizing high availability features. 
We have plans to upgrade the platform to recent technologies and approaches. And that means that in the future we will have not only SQL Server but also NoSQL solutions, Kafka, etc. which also need some support.
We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to tackle some of technology's greatest challenges.

 EXPECTED SKILLS
∙ BS degree in a computer discipline or relevant certification and experience;
∙ 3+ years Commercial experience of MS SQL Server database technologies;
∙ Experience with Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools;
∙ Experience with backups, restores and recovery models;
∙ Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for MS SQL Server;
∙ Technical expertise regarding data models, database design and development;
∙ Strong communication and presentation skills. Ability to interact with all levels of stakeholders;
∙ Ability to work in a fast-paced environment on multiple projects with independent deadlines and deliverables, whilst maintaining a high attention to detail.

WOULD BE A PLUS
∙ MCSA and MSSE certifications;
∙ Experience with cloud services (AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud);
∙ Experience with NoSQL database (like Cassandra, HBase), Kafka.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
∙ Maintaining day to day availability of all database servers ensuring high performance and availability of the databases that support the business systems in a true 24/7 environment;
∙ Following and improving internal processes to ensure accurate and consistent database processes are carried out for production database requests with support for operational deployments, business intelligence and analytical reporting requirements;
∙ Implementing and maintaining a cohesive and consistent approach to system monitoring, ensuring that both software and hardware KPIs are reviewed to achieve the business goals;
∙ Monitoring and maintaining the reporting of activity and trends on the databases and servers to Senior Management, enabling a capacity planning strategy to be employed;
∙ Monitoring, reporting and maintaining a backup strategy for databases;
∙ Setting up, upgrading and installing all database servers ensuring that the correct hardware configuration is in place to provide high availability, scalability and optimum performance;
∙ Setting up and managing database security ensuring that the correct policies are adhered to and reviewed in line with Company or regulatory procedures;
∙ Assist developers with complex query tuning and schema refinement;
∙ Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team members.

Additionally, we could provide the possibility to get additional knowledge in different directions like DevOps or Backend Developer.

📍 Remote, Kyiv, Minsk