Database Administrator

Job Description

Database Administrator position for the Global DBA team India Office at Ria Money Transfer, a dynamic and international company, global leader in money transfer and currency exchange, with employees from every corner of the globe. Ria Money Transfer is the Largest Money Services Business (MSB) Company in India

Database Administrator position for the Global DBA teamat the India Office. This is a MS SQL Server DBA role largely responsible for providing operational database services to the organization.

Responsibilities

• Primary responsibilities of this role includes owning, tracking and resolving database related incidents and requests within provided SLAs, reviewing service related reports (e.g.: database backups, maintenance, monitoring) on a daily basis to ensure service related issues are identified and resolved within established SLAs, responding to database related alerts and escalations and working with database engineering to come up with strategic solutions to recurring problems.
• High sense of ownership of the problems and requests assigned, focus on managing and resolving issues in alignment with the SLAs, establishing and maintaining communication with technology customers to keep them updated with status of their requests, initiating and performing changes on production systems and proactively escalating any issues that cannot be resolved within the established timeframes.
• The Production DBA Team is required to follow an on-site/on-call rotation including weekends to support the production environment.
• This on-call rotation includes DBA’s from USA and Spain to help provide 24 by 7 coverage, and to ensure that at least 1 DBA is always on-site/on-line from each shift.
• This position is a hybrid remote position (must be in office at least 2 times per week) and will be in the USA DBA second shift (from 7AM to 4PM US time) with a rotating on-call weekend Standby schedule during the same period of 7AM to 4PM India time
  
  

Qualifications

• At least 4 years experience as a Microsoft SQL Server DBA in SQL Server 2014 and above
• Experience with AlwaysOn Availability Groups
• Experience with SQL Server Replication.
• Experience in Performance Tuning and Optimization using monitoring and troubleshooting tools
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database issues in stability, performance and/or availability.
• Experience with SQL Server Integration/Reporting Services.
• Experience/knowledge of Log Shipping
• Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for MSSQL Server.
• Knowledge of indexes, index management, and statistics.
• Experience in implementing operational automation using scripts via TSQL or PowerShell.
• Experience working with Windows server, including Active Directory and proper disk configurations.
• Proactive monitoring of databases both from a stability, availability, performance and capacity management perspective.