Microsoft MSSQL DB Administrator

Belgrade

Job Overview

Responsible for the 24/7 support of Microsoft MSSQL production database services to ensure the highest standards of availability, resilience, integrity, security and performance required by the business systems.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring availability and performance of the databases that support the system
• Work with the team to ensure that the associated hardware resources allocated to the databases and to ensure high availability and optimum performance
• To proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime
• Responsible for providing trend analysis to the service management team to enable them to make informed decisions regarding resource management
• Responsible for problem escalation to Microsoft Development team and third parties as appropriate
• Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include rollout and upgrades
• Responsible for implementation and release of database changes as submitted by the development team

Skills / Attributes Required

• Strong Microsoft MSSQL Database Administration experience
• Experience of managing multiple RDBMS on large systems
• Experience of working in a team that delivers a high availability service
• Practical experience in monitoring and tuning a database to provide a high availability service
• Experience of SQL Server is desirable

Education and Experience Required

• Will typically have a B.S. in Computer Science  and a minimum of three (3) years of related experience preferably in Microsoft MSSQL systems or application administration
• Concepts, principles and practices of systems administration
• Monitoring tools to ensure required availability of assigned systems
• DHCP, LDAP and DNS
• Backup and recovery technologies
• Virtualization concepts and technologies
• Network and security concepts and technologies
• Concepts, principles and practices of automation
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Deadline for applications: 01.03.2020.