SQL Engineer

Sensiple Inc is a New Jersey corporation with over two decades of expertise in technology-driven solutions specializing in Customer Experience, Contact Center Solutions, Digital Transformation, Cloud Computing & Independent Testing.

With an expert team that has enriched experience in executing & developing sustainable IT strategies in Healthcare, Technology, Retail, Logistics, Education, Telecommunications, Government and Media, we help our diverse customers to envision the future.

By developing highly scalable and consistent solutions, our primary goal is to deliver excellence at all levels and delight our customers and drive them to a better future.

One of our clients is looking for a SQL Engineer-Hybrid Please find below the details of the position.

Job Description

Position Title: SQL Engineer

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Key Responsibilities:

Job Description:

TASKS:

Database Review and Maintenance

• Review all Microsoft SQL Server databases.
• Identify any issues such as performance bottlenecks, fragmentation, or inconsistencies.
• Perform routine maintenance tasks such as index rebuilds, statistics updates, and database integrity checks.

Always On Availability Group Maintenance

• Monitor and maintain Always On Availability Groups for SQL Clusters.
• Ensure synchronization state across replicas. o Perform failover testing and handle failover scenarios as necessary.

Best Practice Recommendations

• Review SQL Server and database requests as part of the build cycle.
• Provide best practice recommendations for database design, performance tuning, and security.

SQL Updates and Patching

• Schedule and perform SQL Server updates and patches.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to minimize downtime and ensure updates are applied in a timely manner.

Application Migration to SQL 2019

• Assess existing applications and databases.
• Work with application owners to plan and execute migrations to SQL Server 2019.
• Ensure compatibility and performance optimization during the migration process.

SQL Server Consolidation

• Identify opportunities to consolidate SQL servers into shared instances.
• Evaluate resource utilization and performance impact.
• Plan and execute server consolidation efforts while minimizing disruption to existing services.

Root Cause Analysis

• Perform root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes.
• Identify patterns, trends, and anomalies to answer specific business questions.
• Propose data-driven solutions and opportunities for improvement.

Project Management Support

• Provide project management support for SQL-related initiatives.
• Coordinate tasks, timelines, and resources to ensure successful project delivery.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to provide updates and manage expectations.

Backup and Recovery Management

• Review and optimize SQL backup schedules and technologies.
• Implement backup strategies to ensure data integrity and disaster recovery readiness.
• Monitor backup jobs, troubleshoot failures, and perform periodic recovery tests.
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases,

query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases

Requirements Education: MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Must have 12 years Experience.
• Microsoft SQL Engineer/DBA must possess advanced SQL querying skills, including expertise in writing complex SQL queries, stored procedures, triggers, and optimizing SQL performance.
• Proficiency in database administration tasks such as database creation, configuration, monitoring,
• backup and recovery, security management, user access control, and database optimization.
• Knowledge and experience in implementing and maintaining high availability solutions such as Always on Availability Groups, database mirroring, failover clustering, and disaster recovery planning.

Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot database-related issues effectively, using tools such as SQL Server Profiler, Dynamic Management Views (DMVs), and Extended Events

DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Knowledge of MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, VMWare, AD, DNS
• SQL querying
• database administration
• high availability solutions
• troubleshooting
• Always On Availability Groups
• SQL Server Profiler
• database mirroring
• failover clustering

If you find yourself suitable for this position, kindly send your updated resume and expected hourly rate to sangeetha dot p at sensiple dot com

Regards

Sangeetha| Sensiple Inc.,

sangeetha dot p at sensiple dot com

555 US Highway 1 S, Ste 330 Iselin, NJ 08830

Sensiple, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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