Senior SQL DBA

We are hiring.

Peraton is looking for a Senior SQL DBA.

This qualified individual will be responsible for the design, implementation, configuration, maintenance, and performance of critical SQL Server RDBMS systems, to ensure the availability and consistent performance customer enterprise applications.

This is a “hands-on” position requiring deep technical skills, as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Design, Installation, Administration and Maintenance of SQL Server Instances in a multi-cloud environment
• Assists in developing the strategic direction for the database topography within the solution offering
• Create Users and assign permissions based on the level of database access the user would need
• Design database backup and restore strategy
• Design and build High-Availability as part of Disaster Recovery Strategy for the Databases
• Assist in customer application migration strategy and migration activities
• Troubleshoot various problems that arise in the day-to-day operations and fix the issues
• Monitoring and Performance Tuning; Physical Server Level, Database level (Database settings and options) and query tuning to include index optimizations
• Failover clustering, SAN replication, and other high availability technologies
• Database growth vs disk space available, audits, resource monitoring (I/O bottlenecks, memory pressure, CPU use)

• Monitor backups to ensure they are being performed regularly
• From time to time recover the databases to a specific point of time