Database Administrator

Contract: plano, Texas, US

Salary Range: 55.00 - 65.00 | Per Hour

Job Code: 360628

End Date: 2025-05-03

Days Left: 24 days, 17 hours left

Position Details: 
Client
Financial Services
Job Title
Database Administrator Specialist
Duration
6 Months (Contract to hire)
Location
Mclean, VA / Plano TX
Pay rate: $55 - $65/hr
 
 
 
Responsibilities:
  • Database engineering team looking for a skilled Database Engineer to provide database production support in a fast-paced operations environment supporting business critical applications using backend MS-SQL database platforms.
  • As a MSSQL Database Engineer, play a critical role in ensuring the performance, security, and scalability of our databases and collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software developers, data analysts, and system administrators, to deliver efficient and reliable database solutions.
  • Provide expertise in SQL programming, database architecture, and troubleshooting will be essential in optimizing database performance and resolving complex technical issues.
 
 
Required Skills
 
• More than seven years of experience working as a production support database administrator (DBA)
• Strong database administration experience on MS-SQL Server
• Experience in installation, configuration and migration with MS-SQL database platforms.
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes
• Strong database performance tuning skills - query optimization and server tuning with MSSQL platforms
• Possesses deep understanding of MSSQL internals and Optimizer functioning and ability to apply the skills to trouble-shoot real time production issues
• Provide deployment support for database objects in production and test environment
• Extremely comfortably in power shell scripting with prior experience in writing and maintaining complex scripts to perform database maintenance.
• Experience in migrating SQL platform to industry standard versions.
• Execute large database migration projects independently
• Experience with standard database monitoring.
• Understanding of industry standard High Availability and DR technologies
• Experience with providing 24x7 production on-call support on rotation basis
• Effective verbal and writing communication skills
• Experience in ansible automation is preferable
• Experience with data security and compliance with industry standards
• Experience on other  platforms Sybase or PostgreSQL and No-SQL like Mongo is preferable
Job Requirement
  • mssql
  • database
  • dba
  • postgresql
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  • Sanya Mehani
  • sanya.mehani@collabera.com
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