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.

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