| Job Hiring for: Sybase SQL Database Administrator (Hybrid Onsite) at Lansing, Michigan, USA |
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| From: Sameer, GSK Solutions Inc [email protected] Reply to: [email protected] Job Title: Sybase / SQL Database Administrator (Hybrid Onsite) Location: Lansing, MI Duration: 12 Months + Client: State of Michigan Pay Rate: $65/hr on W2 & $70/hr on C2C / 1099 We are looking for a DBA to join our team. They will need to have experience with formal change control environments. They also need strong troubleshooting skills. This position is for an expected 40 hours per week Monday through Friday with two days on site (Wednesdays are a mandatory onsite day). There is currently a rotation for on call during the period Saturday morning till Monday morning and this position may be required to assist with this after an initial learning period. Overtime and weekend work is rare and must be scheduled and approved by our customer. This is generally a scheduled project. Our environment is predominantly Sybase with SQL Server. We are moving from Sybase to a pure SQL Server in approximately 3 years. The Sybase environment is 15.7 on Solaris in an X86 hardware environment within our local network. The SQL Server environment is mixed versions of SQL Server on mixed versions of Windows Server with an upcoming project to update versions. This environment includes both servers in our network and in Azure. Our planned goal is to move off Sybase and a project to do this is underway and thus the need for the selected candidate to have some experience with both Sybase and SQL Server. Our primary goal is to have an additional individual to assist with our Sybase 15.7. As a result, the appropriate candidate will need to have Unix background running and developing CRON jobs with command line experience. The DBA should be familiar with Sybase ASE 15.7. This can be at the level of a junior DBA. The desire is to have a DBA that can assist with tasks, particularly during after hours implementations that the senior DBAs need completed to reduce the overall time required per DBA. This position will also help with other tasks that occur during the week such as weekly data fixes which occur on Thursday and Friday. The secondary goal is to take work off the SQL Server DBAs. This will require the individual to have some experience with Windows Servers and with SQL Server. Additionally, the person will work with clusters and with Disaster Recovery in our development, test, and production environments. A strong desired experience is migration from Sybase to SQL Server. Individual tasks related to the duty: Research, draft and recommend database standards and policies. Coordinate with vendor support to address technical issues that could not be resolved in-house. Participate in the planning process to match emerging technologies with future business needs. Establish standards and guidelines for database space allocation based on best practices and implementation considerations based on business requirements. Calculate disk space requirements for existing and/or new installations and growth based on changing business requirements. Measure and/or forecast current capacity, gauge the growth of capacity over time, and factor in the anticipated capacity requirements to determine whether the existing infrastructure can sustain the anticipated workload. Research, analyze, and determine appropriate hardware changes to support future application and database needs. Report recommendations to appropriate DBA specialist and/or technical services. Review results of database integrity checks. Resolve identified issues. Design appropriate strategy to reorganize database objects to release unused space or repair fragmentation. Install database management software in any environment. Install database patches and service packs in any environment. Review, install, analyze and implement security patches to be applied to remain PCI compliant, vendor compliant, and OES compliant. Designs the security model based on set standards. Create database user accounts and schemas in production environments based on defined and approved forms and procedures. Define/design roles. Define/design profiles. Recommend standard password security policies. Implement data encryption (13+design encryption). Design, configure, and initiate auditing with appropriate options as needed. Create and deploy new database in development and test environments. Ensures and validates the integrity and quality of the scripts to be promoted to any of the environments. Perform production data file transfers between different systems, across state agencies, federal government, vendors, etc. Analyze and resolve database space utilization in production environments. Analyze and resolve issues with database integrity in development, test, and production environments. Perform troubleshooting of performance issues and provide required solution. Analyze databases for optimal performance and investigate poorly performing SQL statements and offending database sessions. Perform database performance tuning by identifying index candidates, updating database statistics, using appropriate optimization techniques, optimizer hints and other methods. Document tuning procedures. Implement defined initialization parameters, database instance memory structures and physical data layout for optimal performances. Monitor database jobs and scheduled processes, perform troubleshooting and provide resolution for any issues with jobs/processes as necessary. Document solution and provide root cause analysis. Pre-Screening Questions Posting ID 129402 1. What versions of Sybase have you used 2. What migration tools have you used to migrate one database to another 3. Have you managed database servers in a virtual environment 4. 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