Sr. Database Engineer

• Expertise in Database Administration on Production Servers with server configuration, performance tuning, and maintenance with outstanding troubleshooting capabilities in Cloud – AWS / Azure.
• Efficient in Architecting, Configuring, Maintaining, Monitoring, Troubleshooting SQL Servers.
• Strong understanding of SQL database structures, principles, and practice
• Strong experience handling Backups, Restores, Corruption, and Disaster Recovery scenarios.
• Experience in installing and configuring SQL Server databases of different versions.
• Experience in Performance Tuning and Optimization, backups, restores, recovery models. Writing & optimizing SQL statements, partitioning, clustering, HA, DR. Experience in DMV & DDL queries.
• Independently analyze, solve, and correct issues in real-time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
• Skilled in working with large volumes of data and loading data from multiple sources.
• Knowledge of reporting and query tools and practices.
• Knowledge of indexes, index management, and statistics.
• Skilled in deploying database change scripts
• Scheduling database backups, taking full and Transaction log backups.
• Automate SQL server tasks (SQL jobs, Windows scripts, etc.)
• Exposure to MySQL will be an added advantage.

Soft skills:

• Mission led. Someone who buys into the mission of a company and the problem they are solving. The company is growing fast and have a tonne of things they need to achieve; they want people that are bought in for the long term and believe in what they’re doing. 
• Pragmatic thinker. You have a structured approach to situations, if you do not know the answer, you’ll know how to find it out. 
• Open to change. You are able to work in a fast-paced environment where priorities can change instantly, and you are able to adjust. 
• Technologist. Someone that is passionate about what they do and experienced in server operating systems and application deployment, configuration, and maintenance. 
• Communication and Presentations skills.