Pls note  selection process:

1)      Telephonic interview

2)   Compulsory In person interview in NY City (hence preferably look at local candidates)

v  No of Positions :  1

v  Type (C2H/Full Time): C2H or Fulltime

Position Title- Senior Database Administrator (DBA)

v  Location- NY city( 5 mins walk from Penn station)

v  Rate / Constraints if any –

a)If selected for C2H : 3 months contract  ( 45$/hr)

around 90- 100K (Based on experience)

v  Tentative Start Date – Immediate

v  Job Description

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Senior Database Administrator (DBA)

Description

Client is seeking a senior DBA to work as a member of the Operations team and serve as the primary authority for the schema development/maintenance, operation, monitoring, performance, availability, tuning, backup, and recovery of its application’s MS SQL Server 2005 and PostGreSQL DBMS and associated systems -- in its development, staging, and production environments.  This position reports to the VP of Operations and Corporate IT.

Duties

• Work with the development team in the design, maintenance, and documentation of database schemas including evaluation of: data design, (de)normalization, referential integrity, query design, indexing strategies, and deployment.
• Work with Quality Assurance Team to provide support for test approaches for database related changes as needed.
• Coordinate with other Operations team members to establish requirements for capacity planning, deployment, and operational needs.
• Establishing policies and procedures pertaining to the management, security, maintenance, and use of the DBMS consistent with corporate policies and industry best practices.
• Implement effective use of database replication, load balancing, and other configuration items to support capacity plan and performance goals in line with client SLAs.
• Construct/execute ad-hoc queries to assist in the maintenance and troubleshooting of operational issues, or as needed to support development of applications, reporting, and analytics.
• Design and implement strategies for database load and stress testing.
• Serve as technical representative for data related issues as needed in client interchanges.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and new database design/deployment approaches.
• Maintain run-books and run-logs for database systems.
• Available on-call during off-hours to resolve database issues as needed to support 24/7 operations including communication with host providers to resolve configuration and operational issues.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related degree, or equivalent experience plus 8-10+ years with database design, development, and/or architecture.
• 3-5 years experience as DBA on MS SQL Server in high performance enterprise OLTP/OLAP application environments.
• Strong experience with isolation levels, locks, SQL Server performance tuning, and optimization.
• Detailed knowledge of Transact-SQL (T-SQL) and Stored Procedures.
• Experience with database replication configuration and deployment.
• Experience with capacity planning – including effective measurement and usage of bandwidth, disk space, memory and cache servers.
• Experience with managing hardware configurations and considerations for SQL Server environments.
• Knowledge of using various tools to identify and monitor database performance metrics.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Able to work effectively across a diverse team.
• Strong problem solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.

Pluses:

• Detailed knowledge of PostGreSQL.
• Experience with Memcached or other caching systems.
• Understanding of software development life-cycle, and specifically consumer-facing web development.
• NHibernate and/or Hibernate.
• .NET and/or JDBC Database programming.
• Experience with Windows/ASP.NET/C# based database programming.
• Experience with Java/Linux based database programming.