Kronos jobs - Production DBA II

Description

SQL Server DBA will Administer and maintain the security/integrity of the application as well as databases. Periodic database/application maintenance/troubleshooting, patches, upgrade, incident/problem management along with integration with other business applications. Knowledge of PostgreSQL and Cassandra would be added advantage.

• Monitor production systems, resolve issues proactively, escalating to senior engineers, if needed
• Support production and other environments consisting of SQL 2000-2008, Windows Server 2000-2014
• Install, administer, and update Windows and SQL 2000-2014 servers
• Trouble shoot and resolve performance related issues for SQL 2000-2014 servers
• Configure and maintain replication, log shipping and MS cluster
  

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Installation / configuration/ maintenance and Administration of SQL SERVER 2000, 2008, 2014
• Disaster Recovery Planning and Implementation (Mirroring, Replication, log shipping, MS Cluster…)
• Good knowledge of Transactional SQL, Stored Procedures, SQL Monitoring tools and Performance monitoring. Knowledge of Planning and implementing backup policies
• Practical experience in managing the internal and external MS SQL database security. Knowledge of hosting/SaaS environments, Network Operations Center protocol, focusing on systems performance and high availability.
  

Qualifications

Graduate in Computer Science, MCA/ Regular PG course in Computers added advantage

• Min. 5 years related work experience, 3+ years in Microsoft SQL SERVER administration
• Scripting knowledge (WS script, power shell, Dos and Batch scripts)
• Exposure to ORACLE \ PPAS \ Cassandra would be a plus
• Backup and recovery tools
• Exposure to ITIL tools