RESPONSIBILITIES:  

·         Track issues and report status to management.

·         Implement monitoring DBA policy and procedures.

·         Improve monitoring DBA team’s policy and procedures.

·         Analyze and implement monitoring tools for monitoring DBA team.

·         Practice and enforce issue identification, initial diagnosis, escalation and tracking of production issues.

·         Monitor and trouble shoot production mission critical database environments and replication environment.

·         Provide nightly coverage when needed.

·         Proactively recognize performance issues as they occur and know when to escalate the issue to team members.

·         Utilize Idera diagnostic manager and other tools for real time server monitoring.

·         Mentor and lead team members to resolve performance issues and follow up and provide feedback on issue resolutions.

·         Monitor alert notification emails.

·         Monitor performance impact of all database patches and service packs.

·         Monitor clustered SQL Server Environment.

·         Monitor mirroring and log shipping.

·         Monitor replication.

·         Other duties as assigned.

·         Mentoring DBA.

QUALIFICATIONS:     

·         BSCS or MS degree in computer science or related field, 10 or more years of relevant industry experience.

·         5 or more years of database administration/design experience with RDBMS.

·         5 years experience with MS SQL Server 7.0, MS SQL Server 2000, MS SQL Server 2005.

·         2-3 year experience with monitoring and troubleshooting mission critical database and replication environment.

·         Experience with one or more popular SQL Server monitoring tools.

·         Experience with additional RDBMS is plus.

·         Experience with MS SQL Server backup and recovery techniques in a VLDB environment.

·         Proven experience in maintenance of SQL Server in VLDB environment.

·         Proven experience using Transact SQL, Stored Procedure and UDF.

·         Experience with MS SQL Server DTS and SSIS.

·         Familiarity with SQL Server replication services. Familiarity with SQL Server clustered environment.

·         Prefer experience with data warehouses, including experience with MS SQL OLAP services.

·         Demonstrated experience in troubleshooting and resolving database problems.

·         Demonstrated experience in tuning database and its objects. Understanding of databases indexes and internal operations.

·         Understanding of database design practices, including database normalization concepts.

·         Prefer background in Microsoft networking.

·         Proven ability to work with in a team environment.

·          Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

For immediate consideration please send your resume to dkennedy@judge.com