Senior SQL DBA (AWS) With New Zealand Based Product...

Position: SQL DBA with AWS

Years of Experience – 5- 8 yrs

Qualifications – BE, BTech, MTech, MCA from a reputed institute

Job Location: – Pune , UK Time

Position Summary:

In the role of Database Administrator Senior SQL Server, you will be applying your specialist

technical expertise and experience in SQL Server to ensure our databases are maintained

and optimized using best practice in operational excellence, performance efficiency,

security, reliability, and cost. You will hold a central role in assisting with escalations for

troubleshooting, resolution, root cause analysis and preventive action towards customer

database issues. Where required, you will mentor and collaborate with other DBAs and

engineering staff across the business to ensure as a team that we meet our service goals.

You will be based from India, working to UK business hours, collaborating and supporting the

customers and company's teams in the UK.

Role and Responsibilities –

● Contributing within scrums including roadmaps, sprint planning, and retrospectives

as part of the PEO team.

● Taking a technical lead on developing, building, and testing activities for platform

architectures with a focus on database technologies.

● Creating, updating, and reviewing documentation of engineering & operation

processes, procedures, and system information relating to database activities.

● Performing auditing, reporting, and other governance activities to uphold

engineering as well as operations standards and compliance of database

technologies.

● Identifying opportunities for engineering and operational improvements.

● Completing engineering & operations proposals for analysis and decision making.

● Taking a technical lead on deploying, operating, and managing activities related to

platforms for database technologies.

● Responding to database related platform incidents, performing technical

investigations, resolutions, and reviews.

● Pro-actively monitoring and maintaining service health and performance of

databases.

● Be a point of escalation for the on-call support rota to uphold 24/7 customer

platform support.

● Participating in scheduled work out-of-hours and standby support coverage on

occasion.

● Placing the customer and the success of the business at the center of all thought,

analysis, response, and decision making.

● Engaging with and supporting internal teams, third parties and customers through

effective and appropriate channels.

● Representing the business as a database technical specialist in direct communication

with customers on occasion.

Job Specifications (Skill and Knowledge required)-

● Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar role as a Database Administrator using

SQL Server.

● Working within ITIL service management frameworks and developing process

improvements.

● Working within agile methodologies with scrum teams, sprints, and kanban boards.

● Working within a Dev-Sec-Fin-Ops culture and practice.

● Technical skills.

● o Advanced SQL Server 2016+ Standard or Enterprise Edition.

● o Basic system administration of Windows Server 2016+.

● o Basic networking understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, and firewalls.

● o Basic AWS cloud administration, RDS is desirable.

● o Basic Atlassian service use of JIRA and Confluence.

● o Basic source control of Git, Bitbucket is desirable.

Selection Process:

2-3 rounds of technical interview