SQL Database Administrator
- Contract
Company Description
Detroit IT provides IT services to businesses throughout Metro Detroit and Southeastern Michigan. We provide Exchange server support, Office 365 migrations, ongoing remote support, a fully staffed Helpdesk, managed IT services, and consulting that help keep your business running efficiently.
Job Description
Title: Sr. SQL Database Administrator
Location: Metro Detroit, MI
Citizenship: U.S. Citizen/GreenCard Holder
Duration: contract
Department: Information Systems
Job Summary:
The Database Administrator is responsible maintaining systems, tuning, aiding in design and solving database issues for systems running SQL server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012.
Job Responsibilities:
• Experience setting up backups and recovery scripts.
• Troubleshoot SQL Server service outages as they occur.
• Ability to create stored procedures to facilitate processing and maintenance.
• Experience working with very large databases.
• Ability to automate everyday tasks using stored procedures, PowerShell or other language.
• Experience with Mirroring, Logshipping, Service Broker, Partitioning, Change Data Capture, Clustering and other options for SQL Server.
• Understanding of tuning.
• Configure SQL Server monitoring utilities.
• Install and configure new SQL Server instances.
• Deploy database change scripts.
• When performance issues arise, determine the most effective way to increase performance including hardware purchases, server configuration changes, or index/query changes.
• Document the company’s database environment.
• SSIS experience for loading data into systems (ETL).
• Experience maintaining SSAS.
• Ensure all database servers are backed up in a way that meets the business’s Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
Qualifications
- BS in Information Technology or Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a SQL Server Database Administrator.
- Strong T-SQL and SQL Server skills.
- Experience working with large databases.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.