Database Administrator Senior SQL Server Expert

1 month ago


Pune, Maharashtra, India Gentrack Full time
Job Description

At Gentrack, we are seeking a highly skilled Senior SQL Server Database Administrator to join our Platform Engineering and Operations (PEO) team. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for ensuring the optimal performance, security, and reliability of our databases.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Take a technical lead on developing, building, and testing activities for platform architectures with a focus on database technologies.
  • Contribute to scrums, including roadmaps, sprint planning, and retrospectives as part of the PEO team.
  • Perform auditing, reporting, and other governance activities to uphold engineering standards and compliance of database technologies.
  • Identify opportunities for engineering improvements and complete engineering proposals for analysis and decision making.
  • Take a technical lead on deploying, operating, and managing activities related to platforms for database technologies.
  • Perform auditing, reporting, and other governance activities to uphold operations standards and compliance of databases technologies.
  • Identify opportunities for operational improvements and complete operations proposals for analysis and decision making.
  • Respond to database-related platform incidents, perform technical investigations, resolutions, and reviews.
  • Proactively monitor and maintain service health and performance of databases.

Requirements:

  • Minimum of 7 years of experience in a similar role as a Database Administrator using SQL Server.
  • Working within ITIL service management frameworks and developing process improvements.
  • Working within agile methodologies with scrum teams, sprints, and kanban boards.
  • Working within a Dev-Sec-Fin-Ops culture and practice.
  • Technical skills in Advanced SQL Server 2016+ Standard or Enterprise Edition, Basic system administration of Windows Server 2016+, Basic networking understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, and firewalls, Basic AWS cloud administration, RDS is desirable, Basic Atlassian service use of JIRA and Confluence, Basic source control of Git, Bitbucket is desirable.

Personal Attributes:

  • Excellent interpersonal skills demonstrating a positive, reasoned, confident, and approachable attitude to others.
  • Excellent team player, supporting others and delegating work.
  • Pragmatic in approach to work and able to manage multiple work streams with competing priorities.
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills, working through issues logically.
  • Excellent attention to detail.
  • Self-aware of knowledge gaps and when to seek help from colleagues.
  • Using initiative and proactively progresses each using best practice.
  • Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and minimising risks.
  • Sharing knowledge through collaborative working and documentation.
  • Mentoring and helping develop less experienced and knowledgeable colleagues.
  • Enjoys challenges and sees them as opportunities.
  • Is keen to learn and develop technical and process framework knowledge.
  • Open-minded, consultative approach. Effective at listening and articulating opinions in a professional capacity.
  • Comfortable with asserting own views and challenging others as well as being challenged by others.
  • Has a flexible working attitude and recognises some 'give and take' is required with the business.

Qualifications:

  • Essential qualifications or equivalent experience: MCSA Microsoft SQL 2016 Database Administration.
  • Desirable qualifications or equivalent experience: AWS SysOps Administrator Associate, MCSA Windows Server 2016, ITIL v3/4 Foundation.

Competency Description:

  • Adaptability: Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing changes in work tasks or the work environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures. Level 3.
  • Analytical Thinking: Understanding a situation and its pieces, analysing its make-up, and reaching logical decisions on a rational basis. Level 4.
  • Building Partnerships: Identifying opportunities and taking action to build relationships both within the organisation and externally to achieve common goals. Level 3.
  • Coaching/Leading: Providing timely guidance and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge/skill areas. Level 3.
  • Communication: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media in a way that engages people and helps them understand and retain the message. Level 4.
  • Customer Focus: Making customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; developing and sustaining productive customer relationships. Level 3.
  • Decision Making: Using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions and taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences. Level 3.
  • Developing Others: Planning and supporting the development of people's skills and abilities to better fill current or future job/role opportunities. Level 2.
  • Planning and Organising: Establishing courses of action for self and others to ensure that work is completed efficiently. Level 4.
  • Process improvement & Innovation: Improving existing conditions and processes; identifying opportunities, implementing solutions, and measuring output. Level 3.

Language: English



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