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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in database administration, performance tuning, and modernization across large-scale enterprise environments. Proficient in SQL, T-SQL, and scripting for automation, with a strong focus on risk assessment and technical recommendations.
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Database AdministrationPerformance TuningSQL, T-SQL, PL/SQLScripting and AutomationDatabase Modernization
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Hard Skills
Database AssessmentDatabase OptimizationBackup and RecoveryDisaster RecoveryConfiguration AnalysisCapacity PlanningRisk IdentificationDatabase Lifecycle ManagementHealth ChecksDatabase Migration
Soft Skills
Analytical SkillsProblem-SolvingCommunicationOrganizational SkillsMentoring
Tools & Technologies
Oracle DatabaseMicrosoft SQL ServerPostgreSQLMySQLIBM Db2Microsoft AzureAWSOracle Cloud InfrastructurePowerShellPython
Industry Keywords
Enterprise DatabaseDatabase ModernizationPerformance AnalysisOperational HealthCross-Platform Database Movement
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSAzureCloudMS SQL ServerMySQLOraclePostgresPythonSQL
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Participate in a large-scale enterprise database assessment, optimization, and modernization project
- Assess an estate of approximately 1,700 databases
- Perform discovery, inventory, and characterization of database platforms
- Analyze database versions, configurations, lifecycle status, and operational health
- Identify risks and improvement opportunities across performance, capacity, availability, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, security, monitoring, versions, and configuration
- Analyze large volumes of data to identify patterns and trends
- Define technical recommendations and action plans
- Classify and prioritize databases by risk, criticality, and remediation requirements
- Participate in remediation, modernization, rationalization, upgrades, migrations, consolidations, and cross-platform database movements
- Perform advanced database administration and troubleshooting
- Analyze complex performance and availability issues
- Design and develop scripts to automate discovery, assessment, and administration
- Contribute to standards and best practices
- Prepare technical reports and executive presentations
- Collaborate with infrastructure, application, cloud, and operations teams
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior team members
Requirements
What you’ll need- +3 years of experience as a DBA, Database Consultant, or in a similar role
- Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments
- Experience managing and supporting large database estates
- Hands-on experience with at least one listed database technology and knowledge of other relational database platforms
- Experience in database administration, performance tuning and troubleshooting, backup and recovery, high availability and disaster recovery, monitoring, capacity planning, security, patching and upgrades, migrations and consolidations, configuration analysis, or database lifecycle management
- Experience with database discovery, assessment, health checks, large database inventories, risk identification and classification, recommendation development, platform rationalization and consolidation, database modernization, or roadmap development
- Experience with scripting and automation
- SQL, T-SQL, or PL/SQL depending on the platform
- PowerShell, Bash, and/or Python
- Experience with Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or IBM Db2
- Experience with Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) considered an asset
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, organizational, and prioritization skills
- Ability to work independently and within multidisciplinary teams
- Customer-focused approach
- Ability to mentor and transfer knowledge to less experienced team members
Benefits
Comp & perks- Flexible, supportive environment
- Well-being prioritized
- Hybrid-friendly culture
- Be Well programs supporting financial, mental, physical, and social health
- Personalized development goals
- Continuous feedback
- Certifications with Microsoft, Google, and Amazon
- Coaching and hands-on learning experiences
- Cutting-edge learning opportunities
- Career path and development tools