Key Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Manage and Lead a Team of 2 Database Administrators.
• Perform routine DBA activities & service requests.
• Manage SQL Server databases through multiple product lifecycle environments.
• Configure and maintain database servers and processes, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
• Write stored procedures, manage execution plans and indexes.
• Independently analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time.
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.
• Assist developers with query tuning and schema refinement.
• Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours.
• Handle the documentation of DB Related Incidents and drive related improvements.

Key Skills/Experience:  

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Approximately 6+ of work experience on Microsoft SQL Server Databases (2012-2016).
• Previous Team Leadership experience is essential.
• Expert in performing T-SQL DDL/DML/DCL commands using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
• Strong experience in database installation, configuration, capacity planning, implementing backup and recovery strategy for applications and database.
• Experience with backups, restores, recovery models, and Security.
• Know-how in implementing and monitoring different types of High Availability and Disaster Recovery scenarios like SQL Server clusters, Replication (Transactional and Peer-to-Peer), log shipping.
• Installed and maintained SQL Server failover clustering for SQL Server 2016.
• Practical knowledge of SSIS and SSRS.
• Background in Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Client/Server Connectivity, and Database Consistency Checks using DBCC Utilities.
• Being Involved in R&D projects (designing & creating DBs, tables, writing functions and procedures).
• Exposure in reverse engineering and documenting legacy DB stored procedures and processes.
• An understanding of the SQL locks mechanism/ isolation levels, and their internals.
• Flexible, team player, “get-it-done” personality.

Nice to Have: 

• Forex industry and/or Regulatory reporting knowledge.
• Maria DB and MySQL experience.
• Creating and managing processes to transform data for use in BI, reporting, or data analysis.
• Tableau Server experience and optimization.
• Power BI and business intelligence methodologies.
• Experience in migrating DBs from on-prem/private cloud to public clouds.
• A practical understanding of Incident Management, and IT Risk Management.
• MCTS, MCITP, and/or MVP certifications.
• MCSA (Microsoft Certified Solution Associate).
• MCSE (Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert).
• Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA): Database Fundamentals SQL Certification.

Key Benefits: 

• Competitive remuneration.
• Pension Fund.
• Discretionary yearly performance bonus.
• Weekly lunches, weekly massages, monthly team outings and quarterly company building activities.
• Hybrid working and flexi time.

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