Full-Time Sr. SQL Data DBA - NBC Sports Next

Role DescriptionThe Sr. SQL Data DBA, participates in the design, development, implementation, review, and monitoring of all on-premises and cloud database environments. The Sr. SQL Data DBA will work closely with the Software Development, Data Engineering, and QA teams to ensure that each team has the resources needed to run efficiently and effectively and to provide guidelines and recommendations on best practices in the field.

Responsibilities

1. Design, implement, maintain, and monitor database servers across environments including but not limited to Production, QA, and Development Environments.
2. Ensure High Availability and meet SLAs for systems across environments.
3. Design and implement monitoring solutions to achieve HA and SLA goals.
4. Reviews and audit all environments for best practices in security.
5. Assist in TSQL development (check-in, review, build, testing, and deployment) and support of SQL CI/CD life cycle.
6. Assist developers in best practices for writing queries / procedures.
7. Assist in system capacity planning.
8. Creates and implements new environments based on the needs of the business.
9. Assist in Project, Capacity, and Infrastructure Planning
10. Mentor & lead team members in best practices for administration and development.

Requirements

• At least 10+ years of hands-on SQL Server transactional experience.
• Strong Knowledge of MS SQL Server, TSQL, Power Shell, and coding best practices.
• Strong Knowledge of MySQL & Postgres preferred.
• Strong Knowledge of AWS Clouds Service(s) such as RDS and Redshift.
• Experience using Source Control (GitHub) to maintain scripts and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) of databases throughout SDLC.
• Strong Understanding of SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery technologies, such as availability groups, backups and restores, FCI, log shipping, mirroring, and replication.
• Strong SQL Server administration skills, such as backups, restores, taking and reverting snapshots, user/role security, access permissions, etc.
• Strong Understanding of SQL Server concurrency features, transactions, and locking.
• Expert Experience in SQL performance analysis and optimization (tuning / optimization).
• Experience with SQL Server debugging and tracing.
• Experience using Atlassian Jira & Confluence
• Familiarity with BI technologies, such as ETL, data warehousing, SSAS/OLAP, data mining, and big data technologies.
• Associates degree, preferably in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

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