ECS is seeking a Database Administrator to work remotely.
ECS is seeking a passionate MS SQL Database Administrator to support a rapidly growing Data Analytics and Business Intelligence platform focused on providing data solutions that empower our Federal customers. Your main priority will be supporting migration/modernization efforts focused on managing on-premise database environments proactively and ensuring database performance, availability, and security. As we continue our growth, you will also play a key role in ensuring scalability of our data systems in cloud/serverless database environments.
Responsibilities include:
- Ensuring the availability and performance of the databases that support our systems, ensuring that they have sufficient resources allocated to support high resilience and speed.
- Performing and assisting developers in ongoing performance tuning and migrating databases to modern solutions within Azure cloud and serverless.
- Supporting the development team with in-depth analysis of database sources, ETL processes, and downstream reporting product utilization and complexity evaluations.
- Proactively monitoring the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime and improve maintenance of the databases to include rollouts, patching, and upgrades.
- Creating and maintaining technical documentation using defined technical documentation templates, as well as gaining an in-depth knowledge of the business data so you can propose and implement effective solutions.
- Working within a structured and agile development approach.
Salary Range: $120,000 – $140,000
General Description of Benefits
Qualifications- Must be a US Citizen
- Must be able to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
- 5+ years’ experience in using Database Management Systems
- Experience with designing, setting up, monitoring and maintaining MS SQL instances (on-prem and Azure Cloud)
- Experience with setting up, monitoring, and maintaining MS SQL backup and disaster recovery processes
- Familiarity with data pipeline and workflow management tools
- Strong understanding of MS Windows Server operating systems and complex ETL jobs
- Comprehensive understanding of MS SQL access management and integration with frontend applications
- Comfortable independently troubleshooting and proactively highlighting issues to the broader development team and customer
- Experience with working in cloud environments (AWS/Azure)