Sr. Database Administrator

Location: McLean, VA, us

Company Description

Our consultants here at Strategy come from an impressive range of backgrounds and education. Our staff’s diversity lets us find the best solution for making your ideas successful. We come from a variety of disciplines and career paths, ensuring that our approach considers all angles. Basically, whenever you have an idea, we produce a strategy to make that idea work. We won’t rest until you’re completely satisfied.

Job Description

Position: Sr. Database Administrator

Location: Mclean, VA

Duration: Full-Time

Description of specific Duties in a typical workday for this position:

• Responsible for Oracle and SQL Server database administration and maintenance for all environments on the project
• Assisting with database design, development and enhancement of all databases including for mission critical set of applications
• Review current standard operating procedures for database administration and maintenance and provide and take action on improvement recommendations
• Follow best practices and be involved in defining and enhancing processes related to Oracle and SQL Server
• Perform database refreshes, overlays from production to development/test databases to support development/testing activities of the project team
• Support development team with troubleshooting application issues
• Perform database patching, upgrades, and backups
• Provide operational support, performance tuning and disaster recovery for high visibility applications and data warehouses
• Troubleshoot, resolve and follow established processes for applying the resolution for database issues

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Math or Science
• 15 plus years of Oracle experience
• 5 plus years of SQL Server experience
• Relevant Oracle Certifications and/or Relevant MS SQL Server Certifications
• Database installation, configuration and management ability of large databases
• Significant experience in performing database design
• Experience supporting the development team with query/procedure/trigger/packages development, testing and deployment to the databases
• Experience using various tools such as Oracle Enterprise Manager, TOAD, SQL Developer, SQL Management Studio
• Experience with maintaining and administering multiple versions of Oracle including 11g or higher
• Experience with maintaining and administering multiple versions of SQL Server including 2005 or higher
• Experience in performance analysis and implementation of performance improvements using the Database Engine Tuning Advisor and the SQL Server Profiler
• Experience with building and maintaining disaster recovery environment using Data Guard
• Experience with Subversion, Team Foundation Server configuration management tools
• Excellent SQL database querying skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments
• Good organization skills to balance and prioritize work, and multitask
• Good communication skills to communicate with support personnel, customers, and managers

Nice to Have:

• Experience in designing disk layouts for database, virtual machine and SAN experience preferred
• CMMI L3 or higher experience is a plus
• Working with Federal Agencies (FAA, DoD, etc.)

Additional Information

Thanks & Regards

Yavin Jindal

Sr. Talent & Client Acquisition Specialist 

AP Innovative Solutions | Email: yavin@apinnovative .com | Phone: 6316491313 Ext - 7755