Microsoft Database Administrator

  • Full-time

Company Description

Arηs is a fully independent group of companies specialized in managing complex IT projects and systems for large organisations, focusing on state-of-the-art software development, business intelligence and infrastructure services.

We are composed of 13 entities across 6 countries that are unified by the Arηs Group, with more than 1750 consultants.

This corporate structure enables us to respond quickly to market changes and customer requests, and to communicate and make decisions without layers of bureaucracy.

Our success can be attributed to the synergy among our nine complementary entities, combined with our methodologies, which are based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the Scrum agile software development framework.

Established in 2016, the Greek entity Arηs Developments Hellas aims to extend Arηs Group activities dedicated to the European market providing high-quality services in Software Development, covering the entire application development lifecycle: starting with user requirements, business process redesign and specifications, to continue with development, testing and application maintenance.

Job Description

We are currently looking for a Microsoft Database Administrator to join our growing team in one of the biggest European organizations.

Tasks:

  • Administration and monitoring database management software 
  • Providing 2nd line support to databases
  • Update the technical documentation and operating procedures
  • Troubleshooting databases
  • Deploying databases 
  • Extracting, transforming and loading data
  • Planning capacity and availability of databases, tuning and optimizing databases
  • Implementing changes according to ICT change management procedures
  • Database monitoring and tuning
  • Database incident management

Qualifications

Who you are:

Knowledge:

  • Bachelor's Degree with 3 years' of experience
  • Holds MCSA or MCSE certificate in data platforms or business intelligence or equivalent
  • At least 2 years of professional experience relevant to the job 
  • Experienced in administration of complex MS SQL based systems deployed in distributed environments
  • Expert in optimizing, tuning and planning capacity of databases
  • Experience in scripting MS SQL databases, data transformations and ETL tools
  • Knowledge of authentication and authorization mechanisms in distributed enterprise level systems
  • Hands-on experience in monitoring systems based on MS SCOM
  • Hands-on experience in management of Opens Source databases and data manipulation tools including PostgreSQL and its extensions
  • Experience in ticketing systems and ITIL based change management, configuration management and release management processes
  • Hands-on experience in administering virtual infrastructures
  • Basic knowledge in administering Microsoft Systems
  • A proactive attitude, team-work spirit, being self-motivated with a strong user orientation
  • Good communication skills
  • Able to cope with the fast changing technologies

 

Specific requirements:

  • Holds at least one of following Microsoft Certifications
  1. MCSA: SQL Server 2012/2014
  2. MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Administration
  3. MCSE: Data Management and Analytics
  • Experience in design, implementation and maintenance Microsoft Business Intelligence tools and services
  • Experience in design, implementation and maintenance Microsoft Power Platform
  • Experience in writing technical and user documentation in English
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