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About conduent: through our dedicated associates, conduent delivers mission-critical services and solutions on behalf of fortune 100 companies and over 500 governments – creating exceptional outcomes for our clients and the millions of people who count on themYou have an opportunity to personally thrive, make a difference and be part of a culture where individuality is noticed and valued every dayJob description: why conduent:
You’ll have an opportunity to work on innovative technology while being surrounded by a culture that recognizes each person’s contributionsEach day you’ll feel challenged and know you are making a differenceAt conduent, we believe everything touches everything -and to that end we value our work and each other in the process, making it an award winning place to workIn 2021, we won best places to work, best global culture and best hr teamYou have an opportunity to personally and professionally thrive, make a difference, and be part of a culture where individuality and participation is valued.
As a senior sql dba, you will perform physical and logical database administration functions as required for application to sustain services in ms sql server environmentsThis is a wonderful opportunity to make your mark in an enterprise level business unit, be trusted and valued overall for your contributionsWe need someone who can bring our database administration to the next level, produce high quality work and be surrounded by a team of individuals with the same level of passion that you have with your work.
We need someone who can:
Perform physical and logical database administration functions as required for application to sustain services.
Assist in analyzing, performance tuning and maintain test and production databases.
Experience in database support in ms sql server environments.
Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, log shipping issues, connectivity issues, security issues etc.
Experience in performance tuning, query optimization, using performance monitor, sql profiler and other related monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
Experience with high availability (ha) and disaster recovery (dr) options for mssql server.
Experience in implementing operational automation using scripts.
Experience with backups, restores and recovery models.
Propose database changes to ease monitoring and administrative effort.
Document and implement changes to databases via proper change management methodology.
Monitor and analyze database activity to proactively identify and prevent potential incidents and recommend performance improvements.
Participate in situation management of incidents related to database operations.
Test and evaluate impact on applications of new dbms software releases.
Ensure integrity of all database components, e.gTable definitions, structure definitions, statistic and indexes status etc.
Report and remediate all security violations.
Be familiar with tuning utilities and reportsFor example sql trace, system monitor, activity monitor, and database engine tuning advisor etc.
Be familiar with ms service pack patching procedure.
Be capable of evaluating new rdmbs technology with the objective to improve the quality of database administrative tasks.
Basic qualifications for consideration:
Minimum of 8 years of sql server database administration and design
Minimum of 5 years experience t-sql tuning experience
Experience with power shell scripting
Strong communication, decision making and interpersonal skills
Strong organizational and time management skill.
Able to work under pressure and take responsibility during situation management
Agree to work independently to carry out on-call duties as scheduled
Preferred qualifications for consideration:
Experience working with multiple versions of sql server: individually, in parallel, and using cross-server connectivity
Experience creating, configuring, monitoring, managing, and remediating sql server in on-prem vm and physical scenarios.
Experience creating, configuring, monitoring, managing, and remediating sql server on azure vms
Experience setting up, configuring, and troubleshooting msdtc
Experience with sql encryption processes and procedures
Experience installing, configuring, monitoring, and managing sql server alwayson availability groups
Experience with migrating sql server data from on-prem to an azure environment
Experience performing data migrations from older sql versions to newer versions on separate systems.
Basic sql server and connectivity troubleshooting skills
Effective written and oral communication with team members and coworkers from other teams, including developers, testers, configuration management, and others.
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Closing: conduent is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, gender identity, gender expression, sex/gender, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, use of a guide dog or service animal, military/veteran status, citizenship status, basis of genetic information, or any other group protected by law.
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