SQL Database Administrator
HedgeServ, Bulgaria

Note: This role requires you to work New York hours 4/5pm - 12/1am, Sofia hours 11/12pm - 6/7am

Job Description

We are seeking a Database Administrator to manage our database environments for Microsoft SQL Server databases that are used by applications written in Python, C#, .Net, and Java, and integrates with databases from 3rd-party applications. The role requires a person who can work within a System Administration group and collaborate with several business and development teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide support for production database environments
• Collaborate with Systems Administration teams to diagnose and troubleshoot production issues
• SQL Server - build and configure clusters with multiple nodes
• AlwaysOn Availability Groups
• Work with Monitoring teams to develop tools that proactively identify database issues and collect appropriate trending data for performance analysis
• Work with development team on performance and tuning of the queries
• Develop a process to support frequent, rapid, streamlined, and reliable releases into several QA and UAT environments
• Collaborate with Development and Systems Administration teams to plan and communicate rollouts of new software versions
• Build automated tools to implement schema changes or transform data within development, QA, UAT, Staging and production environments
• Database upgrade procedures and tools provided by external vendors
• Collaborate with System Administrators and Physical DBAs to develop operational approaches for backing-up, restoring, upgrading, sizing (disk and shared memory, for example), and tuning runtime requirements for all database environments.

Requirements

Experience:

• 1+ years working with relational database systems including Microsoft SQL Server
• Recent experience with Microsoft SQL Server
• Windows Server - experience supporting production databases
• Personality - must be pro-active, enthusiastic and dedicated.

Nice to haves:

• Data modeling
• Scripting language PowerShell, Perl
• DW and OLAP including working knowledge of SSAS
• MDX query language
• Apache, MYSQL, PHP and Perl
• Hortonworks Hadoop
• Agile Development environment.

Benefits

• Attractive compensation package including extensive set of benefits
• Professional environment with great development opportunities
• Enjoy a start-up like environment on the back of a well-established and profitable company
• Work in a culture that rewards results
• Be free to make many of your own decisions
• Flexibility in working hours
• Brand new office in the heart of Sofia

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