SQL Server DBA - Dublin

This position will be primarily focused in the day-to-day administrative and operational tasks of managing and supporting a large customer base primarily on SQL Server and Oracle Technologies.  Our Managed Services team utilizes its talents to find real working solutions to real world problems dealing with high network throughput, voluminous database access, redundancy, security, financial transaction processing, compression, and data archival and backup, among other issues. 

Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Identifying and correcting performance issues, reviewing systems and error logs, storage management, backups, job monitoring, optimization efforts, data integrity analysis and resolving database contention issues.
• Responsible for supporting multiple customers SQL Server installations in a wide variety of highly available environments, as well as providing expert consultancy in designing and implementing new solutions based on RDBMS platforms
• Supporting development efforts including specifying requirements, developing test plans, setting up test environments including generating test data and data migration, creating/modifying tables, views, stored procedures, and triggers, developing ad-hoc queries and reports
• Designing database schemas and managing object permissions and accesses
• You will have a well-rounded background in the principles of software design and implementation
• Proficiency in a broad array of technical skills including, operating systems, networking, databases, data structures and commercial application development
• Ability to work with large complex systems and develop new enhancements
• Develop design specifications, author internal documentation and participate in the review of these documents.

Skills/Experience required

• 5+ years (total) software experience.
• 4 years minimum SQL Server experience with a strong relational database background.
• Excellent performance tuning and optimization skills.
• Solid experience with disaster recovery methods and capacity planning.
• Ability to work under pressure, handle complex change and prioritise key activities.
• Excellent customer facing skills
• SQL Server Clustering, Database Mirroring, Replication and log shipping experience
• Experience with Reporting and Analysis Services
• Knowledge of indexes, index management, Partitioning and statistics
• Data warehouse/Storage experience, a plus.
• SQL Server 2008 R2/SQL Server 2012 experience.
• Oracle 10G/11G experience a plus
• Project management skills
• Ideally the successful candidate will have a BSc degree in EE/CS/Computer Engineering