SQL Server Database Consultant
Remote - USA
Microsoft Data Platform – SQL Server /
Full Time /
Hybrid
Why you?
Are you community community-minded SQL Server DBA? Inspired by ever-shifting challenges, constant growth and collaboration with a team of peers who push you constantly to up your game? At Pythian, we are actively shaping what it means to be a database administrator, and we want you to be a part of the world’s largest team of MSSQL professionals. As a SQL Server Database Consultant you will, as part of a team-based approach, supply complete support for all aspects of database and application infrastructure to a variety of clients, as assigned.
If this is you, and you wonder what it would be like to work at Pythian, reach out to us and find out!
What will you be doing?
Coordinating, analyzing, designing, implementing and administering IT solutions. Recommending best practices for improvements to current operational processes. Configuring and maintaining database servers. Supporting SQL Server Database services. Administering backup procedures and disaster recovery plans. Troubleshooting operational problems.Administering proactive daily checks. Responding to monitoring alerts. Presenting technical courses to customers. Participating in on-call coverage rotation plan. Communicating status and planning activities to customers and team members.
What do we need from you?
- While we understand you might not have everything on the list, to be successful you are likely to have skills such as
- Installing, configuring and upgrading SQL Server 2008 - to date databases.
- SQL Server Administration including:Managing Server and Database storage.
- SQL Server third party tools.
- Performance tuning of database server.
- SQL Server management tools.
- Designing and implementing various backup/recovery strategies.
- Replication, log shipping, mirroring, clustering, AlwaysOn.
- SSRS & Power BI, SSIS, and BI experience.
- Coding scripts, procedures, functions, etc.
- Strong TSQL scripting and tuning experience.
- Performance tuning experience.
- Developing methods for monitoring.
- SSAS: Support of cubes, ETL processes and data warehouse environments.
- Supporting cloud migrations and environments, would be considered and asset.
- Awareness of development practices including but not limited to agile and waterfall.
- Working directly with external customers.
- Project managing.
- White paper writing, blogging and presenting skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Administering cloud solutions inc but not limited to Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.
- Developing cloud solutions inc but not limited to Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.
- Ability to lead and design technical project roadmaps with clients and internally.
- Powershell experience an advantage.
- Automation experience an advantage.
Personal attributes:
- Interfacing with external customers, strong customer service focus with the ability to maintain customer expectations and priorities.
- Excellent oral and written communication.
- Self-motivated and directed, while working in a fast-paced demanding environment.
- Keen attention to detail.
- Strong analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.
- Very effective organizational skills.
- Ability to work in a team.
- Demonstrate sound work ethics.
- Understanding of current IT service standards such as ITIL.
- Undergraduate degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology or related field or equivalent experience.
What do you get in return?
- Love your career: Competitive total rewards package. Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity.
- Love your work/life balance: Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office! All you need is a stable internet connection.
- Love your coworkers: Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry!
- Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified, whatever you like!
- Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment!
- Love yourself: Pythian cares about the health and well-being of our team. You will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more). Additionally, you will receive a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity.
Pythian excels at helping businesses use data, analytics, and cloud to transform how they compete and win by delivering advanced on-prem, hybrid, cloud, and multi-cloud solutions. In the early years, we focused on supporting mission-critical operational databases, and as our experts became known for their ability to solve the toughest data challenges, our services grew to meet the rapidly changing needs of our clients; expanding from on-premise to the cloud and from operational to analytics data systems.
A powerful combination of extensive expertise in data and cloud, as well as our ability to keep ahead of the latest bleeding-edge technologies, makes us the perfect partner. We help mid- and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today’s rapidly changing digital economy.
We pride ourselves on our ability to deliver innovative solutions that meet the specific data goals of each client and have built meaningful partnerships with major cloud vendors AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Oracle.
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Disclaimer
For this job, an equivalent combination of education and experience, which results in a demonstrated ability to apply skills will also be considered.
Pythian is an equal-opportunity employer and welcomes applications from people with disabilities.
Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
The successful applicant will need to fulfill the requirements necessary to obtain a background check (including, without limitation, drug testing).
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in their country of residence permanently– Pythian will not relocate, sponsor, or file petitions of any kind on behalf of a foreign worker to gain a work visa, become a permanent resident based on a permanent job offer, or to otherwise obtain authorization to work.
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