MS SQL DBA Position Available In Fulton, Georgia

MS SQL DBA

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

MS SQL DBA

This position maintains Microsoft SQL databases, including all client-facing environments, database backup, and support of databases across internal and end-user applications. Responsibilities includes improvements of database integrity through quality assurance and manages change control processes related the SQL environment. Additional responsibilities include analyzing existing database applications for performance tuning, alerting & monitoring, working with application developers to integrate efforts with relational databases, participate in team or company projects as required, maintain state-of-the-art knowledge of existing best practices in database administration, design, and implementation, capacity planning and provides on-site support.
What you will do:
Provide expert level troubleshooting to quickly identify and resolve database related incidents across a wide array of technologies and platforms
Responsible for participating in root cause analysis and problem resolution
Makes technical decisions during high priority incidents focused on impact remediation and communicates clearly to call participants and leadership
Perform updates/changes during maintenance windows
Understand current capacity issues and the capacity planning processes
Work with team to review change requests
Participate in software deployments
Assimilate organizational objectives into operational action plans
Support a rigorous change control process including creating, reviewing, approving and implementing change records for database activities
Engage, drive and escalate issues with database vendors related to incident management
Support a rigorous problem management process including problem creation and review database activities
Participate in special projects representing database operations on new implementations or troubleshooting deep dives
Identify opportunities for automation of manual tasks
What you will need to have:
Experience with backup processes & procedures
At least 3+ years’ experience working as a SQL Server DBA in an Enterprise environment.
Excellent communication (spoken and written) skills
The ability to document standard operational procedures
Knowledge and experience with capacity planning as it pertains to databases
Ability to work Autonomously and as part of a team
Other Database Platform (Oracle, DB2, etc.) skills are plus, but not required.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business, or information technology or equivalent work experience
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.