Job Details

Microsoft SQL DBA, Washington, D.C. area

Must have a minimum of a BA/BS and 3 years of full-time experience in database administration, planning, design, maintenance or related areas.

The candidates for this position should be able to perform the following duties:

• Designing and configuring database architecture, including hardware and physical layout;
• Performing monitoring and performance tuning;
• Provide ongoing database support in multiple-cluster production environment;
• Perform planned and emergency database maintenance;
• Handling best practices database troubleshooting, corruption, backup and disaster recovery;
• Managing distributed databases, and configuring client/server and web-based environments;
• Perform Development to Production database migrations;
• Managing the development process;
• Microsoft SQL database development and administration;
• Microsoft SQL networking and multi-site replication;
• Hands-on experience in database administration and T-SQL usage;
• Experience in large databases, supporting OLTP applications, and Replication technologies;
• Database security and auditing;
• Database architecture, including hardware configuration, logical and physical database layouts;
• Database management, monitoring of multiple databases;
• Database performance management and tuning;
• Database fault analysis and resolution;
• Database backup and disaster recovery procedures;
• Experience in Linux and Perl a plus;
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.

Knowledge of the following operating systems and platforms: