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ADS- Associate Senior Distributed Database Administrator

Role Summary

As a DBA your role will ensure architecture/design of new DB components, releases, DB refreshes, patching, backup & disaster recovery , production Support , month end processing / reporting , customer support, risk management, user & access management, reporting jobs, legal requests from archives, patching, backup & disaster recovery.

Essential Functions

Performing SQL server installations, patching/updates and failovers

Administer SSIS/SSRS/SSAS including installation, updating, and troubleshooting issues

DB Production Support duties responding to monitoring alerts & BAU ticket handling within given SLAs and deadlines

Manage, maintain, and deploy all production changes/deployments proactively and as per best practice to avoid future production issues.

Rerunning failed Informatica ETL jobs

Focus on providing technical expertise in day-to-day work for outstanding customer experience

Focus on improving performance & optimization of Database environments via query optimization, job fine tuning, etc

Closely work with application teams to ensure permissions are up to date and match between environments when changes such as software releases, etc

Proficiency in writing and optimizing SQL scripts is essential.

Not an exhaustive list; other duties as assigned.

Skills/technical knowledge

3-4+ years of strong DBA experience

Strong working knowledge on SQL Server 2016-2022, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS

SQL DB installation, patching & troubleshooting, and various production support tasks such as query related issues (deadlocks, locking, blocking, etc) and management and monitoring SQL Agent Jobs

Query optimization / performance tuning - execution plans & Index maintenance

DB maintenance activities like indexing, DB security,Backup and Restore etc.

Clustering (Availability Groups, Windows Failover Clustering)

Knowledge of DR plans-Log shipping,Mirroring,Replication,Clustering and Always-ON

Has used Version controlling using GIT, VSTS & Teamforge etc

Experience in cloud platform – Preferably GCP

Strong analytical and planning skills with an ability to manage competing demand

Excellent communication skills, verbal and written; should be able to collaborate across business teams (stakeholders) and other technology groups as needed.

Experience in NO-SQL databases & exposure to Payments industry is a plus

Willing to support when needed, login when requested

Desired Skills

Advanced scripting skills in Python

Good knowledge on Data Warehouse & its concepts, preferably Informatica

Experience in  Google cloud platform - GCP Pub/Sub, Datastore, BigQuery, AppEngine, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Memory Store, Redis etc

A good understanding of the payment domain

Understanding of non-functional testing like performance and load testing.

Expertise in UNIX Shell scripting

Basics in AI/ML.

Minimum Qualification

Minimum 3-4 years of relevant experience.

Software Engineering, Information Systems or other Technical degree; additional experience in lieu of degree will be considered.

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