Job Description

A financial firm is looking for a SQL DBA Manager to join their team in Iselin, NJ.

Compensation: $170-175k

Must be local; no relocation

No visa sponsorship

This is a FT opportunity; no c2c/third parties

Responsibilities:

• Ensure internal database systems are managed to the highest standard by following industry best practice.
• Demonstrate leadership, inspire team members, create a positive and collaborative work environment, and demonstrate leadership by example.
• Identify database best practices to meet internal customer requirements that maximise the performance and reliability of the database management systems.
• Recommends performance and efficiency improvements for databases systems across the organization.
• Assists in the research and review of new database feature-functionality, supports proof-of-concept evaluations and enhancements to existing solutions.
• Demonstrate good problem management ownership and prevention of SLA breach under Incident / Problem Management processes.
• Actively contribute to the development of existing and new IT process and procedures to enhance service transition and service operation lifecycle stages.
• Demonstrate self-starter capabilities identifying areas of improvement and taking action in order to address.
• Provides Senior Operational Support for the Windows / SQL Server and Postgres database environment.
• Provides lead support for database team, managing team assignments, mentoring and developing database administrators. Provides technical leadership and represent team on design and solutioning meetings.
• Investigate and progress Incident, Service Request and Problem tickets. Manage and escalate as appropriate.
• Monitoring, Supporting, and deploying ETL jobs and SSIS packages.
• Configuring and managing RDS instances (AWS).
• Work with internal teams and external vendors to identify/propose solutions and support any fixes that are required as part of service improvement.
• Implements and maintains security policies and auditing compliance at the database level to ensure the protection of the firm's sensitive data. Develops and adheres to patch management and upgrade strategies.
• Follow the firm's Change Management procedure and other standard practices in installing, configuring and supporting databases and relates items in Test and Production environments.
• Ensure that the BAU Service is prioritized and all faults, incidents and problems are responded to in an efficient manner without negatively impacting SLAs and reporting metrics in place.
• Upgrade or maintain software at a time when the impact to the business is minimised.
• Execute the failover for the database and application services as required. Maintain failover scripts and propose performance and efficiency improvements. Participate in regular on-site Disaster Recovery testing activities (up to 4 tests per year).
• Create, maintain, and review operational process and support documentation.
• Provide 24/7 on-call cover on a rotational shift basis. Participate in planned weekend work as required.
• As required, provide representation for DBA team's Changes at the daily stand-up and weekly CAB meetings. Ensure other team's Changes do not have an impact on the delivery of the database services.

Qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Prior IT Operational Support experience across business-critical Production infrastructure, applications, and database services.
• Must have strong Operational Support experience of Microsoft SQL Server in an Enterprise Windows environment.
• Must have a solid understanding of database disaster recovery technologies including SAN / Mirroring / Always-On / SQL replication.
• Knowledge of database structure languages, such as SQL.
• Experience working in AWS platform and utilizing RDS, SQL Server and Postgres.
• Operational DBA support experience on PostgresSQL.
• Must have proven leadership experience.
• Experience assigning BAU and project work to team ensuring deadlines are met.
• Ability to plan and implement technical changes without unexpected disruption to the service and with minimal oversight.
• Experience of providing production support activities for business-critical databases / applications.
• Strong documentation and technical writing skills.
• Must have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in working with ticket systems such as ServiceNow and a solid understanding of service priorities and SLAs.
• Strong experience of providing cross training on technologies and operational processes to colleagues.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with other technical and business teams to support the service.
• Knowledge of ITIL framework (good understanding of Incident, Problem, Change processes).

Desired

• Knowledge of Banking systems and related industry standard practices
• Experience in working and configuring monitoring systems such as Dynatrace
• PowerShell scripting experience
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
• Knowledge of EMC Networker / Rubrik
• Microsoft SQL 2016, 2019, 2022 certification
• AWS Certified Database — Specialty
• ITIL certification

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