Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Merit Consulting Group Inc is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to support enterprise database environments across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises infrastructure. The role focuses on administering multiple database platforms, ensuring performance, availability, security, backup and recovery, troubleshooting production issues, and contributing to migrations, modernization, automation, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Manage and support enterprise databases across cloud and on-premises environments
- Administer IBM Db2, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and AWS RDS environments
- Perform database installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and migrations
- Monitor database health, capacity, availability, and performance
- Perform performance tuning and optimization for databases and SQL workloads
- Manage backup, restore, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery activities
- Troubleshoot database and production issues and perform root cause analysis
- Support database security, access controls, and operational standards
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, security, and development teams on database-related requirements
- Participate in database migration, modernization, and cloud initiatives
- Develop and maintain database documentation, procedures, and operational standards
- Identify opportunities for automation and process improvements
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to other database administrators when required
- Participate in production support, incident management, change management, and on-call activities as needed
Skills
- 8+ years of experience in database administration or a related field
- Strong hands-on experience with IBM Db2
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server
- Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience with AWS RDS
- Strong knowledge of relational database technologies and administration
- Database performance tuning and troubleshooting
- Backup, recovery, replication, and high availability
- Database upgrades, patching, and migrations
- Experience supporting production and enterprise database environments
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Experience with AWS infrastructure and cloud-based database environments
- Experience with database automation and scripting
- Knowledge of AWS database services beyond RDS
- Experience with hybrid cloud environments and database migrations
- Infrastructure monitoring and operational tools
- Infrastructure as Code concepts
- IT service management and change-control processes
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field is preferred
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