Senior Database Administrator

Job Description

Its fun to work at a company where people truly believe in what they are doing!Senior SQL Database AdministratorLocation: Hyderabad, IndiaEPIQ is an industry leading legal process outsourcing (LPO) company serving law firms and corporations around the world. Our extensive experience in Enterprise Class action, eDiscovery, managed services, litigation support and court reporting is unmatched in the industry. The EPIQ Information Technology department is a shared services organization, which supports all of EPIQ s datacenters and regional offices around the world. We have an outstanding new opportunity for a Sr. SQL Server DBA, reporting to the Manager, Database Services.Responsibilities:

• Work as a member of a geographically distributed DBA team, supporting multiple data centers around the world.
• Participate in on-call support rotation for a 24x7, client-facing production environment.
• Ensure EPIQ meets its contractual commitments and established SLAs, including for system uptime.
• Work closely with all IT teams to implement highly available database environments.
• Help troubleshoot highly critical production environments, with 99.925% uptime SLAs.
• Manage all aspects of database administration in a Windows Server clustered environment including planning, developing standards, installation, configuration, backups, optimization, maintenance, and monitoring of SQL Server databases.
• Design, install and configure large and complex databases with high-availability and offsite disaster recovery, utilizing Microsoft Clustering, fault tolerant SAN storage for databases, and third party tools like Cohesity for backups.
• Implement systems for monitoring database jobs and system activity, and profiling for load and performance bottlenecks.
• Follow ITIL best practices, including Change Management, Incident Management and Problem Management.

Required skills and abilities

• 12 years IT Operations with strong understanding of database structures, theories, principles, and best practices.
• 14 years Microsoft SQL Server design, architecture and administration experience, preferably in a hosting and/or corporate 24x7, highly available environment.
• Solid understanding of best practices for SQL Server administration.
• Thorough understanding of relational database design and concepts.
• Expert skills in T/SQL and Powershell scripting.
• Comprehensive knowledge of SQL Server engine internals, query execution plans, query optimization and performance tuning.
• In-depth knowledge of backup and recovery options.
• Experience supporting cloud based (AWS, Azure) database environments.
• Practical experience with SQL Server clustering installation and trouble shooting.
• Self-motivated with the ability to be proactive and work well under tight deadlines and flexible hours.
• Team player with strong intercommunication skills and the ability to provide clear documentation of production processes as necessary.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Mentor and train junior DBA s as and when necessary.
• Familiarity in setting up actionable alerts to proactively manage systems
• Expert skills in performance trouble shooting.

Optional skills

• BE or BS Degree in one of the following subject areas: Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Technology or related field preferred
• Experience managing and tuning large, multi-terabyte SQL Server databases in a SAAS environment.
• Experience configuring the monitoring of SQL Server databases utilizing SentryOne or/and Solarwinds highly advantages.
• MCDBA, MCITP-DBA, or MCSE certifications a plus.
• Knowledge of developing and deploying business continuity and disaster recovery strategies is preferred.
• Experience in other database technologies like Oracle, PostGreSQL and MySQL.
• Exposure to Linux/Unix.

#LI-RE1If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, youll enjoy your career with us!It is Epiq s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. In addition Epiq will take affirmative action for minorities, women, covered veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.,

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