Position Details:

Client	Financial Services
Job Title	Database Administrator Specialist
Duration	6 Months (Contract to hire)
Location	Mclean, VA / Plano TX Pay rate: $55 - $65/hr

Responsibilities:

• Database engineering team looking for a skilled Database Engineer to provide database production support in a fast-paced operations environment supporting business critical applications using backend MS-SQL database platforms.
• As a MSSQL Database Engineer, play a critical role in ensuring the performance, security, and scalability of our databases and collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software developers, data analysts, and system administrators, to deliver efficient and reliable database solutions.
• Provide expertise in SQL programming, database architecture, and troubleshooting will be essential in optimizing database performance and resolving complex technical issues.

Required Skills * More than seven years of experience working as a production support database administrator (DBA) * Strong database administration experience on MS-SQL Server * Experience in installation, configuration and migration with MS-SQL database platforms. * Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes * Strong database performance tuning skills - query optimization and server tuning with MSSQL platforms * Possesses deep understanding of MSSQL internals and Optimizer functioning and ability to apply the skills to trouble-shoot real time production issues * Provide deployment support for database objects in production and test environment * Extremely comfortably in power shell scripting with prior experience in writing and maintaining complex scripts to perform database maintenance. * Experience in migrating SQL platform to industry standard versions. * Execute large database migration projects independently * Experience with standard database monitoring. * Understanding of industry standard High Availability and DR technologies * Experience with providing 24x7 production on-call support on rotation basis * Effective verbal and writing communication skills * Experience in ansible automation is preferable * Experience with data security and compliance with industry standards * Experience on other platforms Sybase or PostgreSQL and No-SQL like Mongo is preferablePDN-9e990fc7-bdc0-4b5e-af41-8ff489f7d464