System One
Location
Vienna, VA | United States
Job description
ALTA IT Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of System One, a leading provider of specialized workforce solutions and integrated services. ALTA is an established leader in IT Staffing and Services, for both government and commercial enterprises across the United States, specializing in Program & Project Management, Application Development, Cybersecurity, Data & Advanced Analytics, and Agile Transformation Services.
ALTA IT Services is seeking a Sr. SQL Server DBA to join our client on a long term contract basis. Candidates must have Azure experience to be considered.
Azure SQL Server DBA
Multi year contract
Senior Azure & On Prem MS SQL Database Administrator will be responsible for the management of production and non-production databases; database maintenance activities; troubleshooting database-related issues; monitoring of database capacity and performance; installation, administration, and configuration of database server/instances/databases; installation and configuration of SSRS, and Power Bi RS; Support release/code deployment activities (SSIS Packages, SSRS reports, SQL objects etc)
Essential Functions
• Conduct the following for Azure SQL/Azure SQL MI/SQL on Azure VM, On Prem SQL Server, SSRS, Power Bi RS, SSIS, Azure Synapse and other related products as applicable and necessary.
• Install/Configure/Setup/Administer and Maintain production and non-production environments.
• Setup High-Availability and Disaster Recovery
• Plan and test high availability and disaster recovery
• Create Users and assign/manage permissions based on the level of access the user would need; ensure robust and full proof security of assets.
• Resolve database integrity, performance, blocking, connectivity, and replication issues.
• Detect and resolve database-related CPU, memory, I/O, disk space and other contention issues.
• Perform and manage Database backup/recovery/restore and capacity monitoring.
• Synapse workload management and optimization
• Setup SQL agent jobs, elastic jobs, and runbook automation
• Identify and setup alerts and logging in Azure.
• Maintain databases – Statistics, Indexes, fragmentation.
• Upgrade and maintain SQL Server and related software (apply patches and updates when necessary)
• Coordinate removal and/or archiving of data that is no longer required to be available in the production databases.
• Deploy and configure SSIS packages and SSRS and Power Bi RS Reports. Troubleshoot issues with SSRS, Power Bi RS, and SSIS.
• Support release/code deployment activities
• Provide 24x7 support as necessary.
• Implement operational automation using scripts.
• Conduct Performance tuning and optimization (Stored procedures, Views, Functions, Queries, database) - In-depth SQL database advanced performance tuning experience – Stored Procedures, Views, Functions; skilled in analyzing and assessing query execution plans and DMVs; expertise in assessing and implementing indexes and partitioning; Tuning ETL Jobs - SSIS & Azure Data Factory
• Design and create databases to support development initiatives.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree or related working experience
• Experience in HA/Failover technologies
• Experience in log shipping and DR Environments
• Experience with DataSync in Azure and other technologies used in replicating data.
• Strong Experience in Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO)
• Experience with SQL Server versions 2016 to 2022
• Experience running and troubleshooting SSIS packages.
• Experience troubleshooting performance issues in the SQL Server environment.
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