Junior Database Administrator

CANDIDATE MUST LIVE IN GEORGIA TO BE CONSIDERED

SUMMARY

Provide 24x7x365 operational, and related infrastructure and administration services for mission-critical databases in a fast-paced environment for brokerage, banking, and related financial and other business/enterprise applications. This is a Staff DBA with primary solid skills in supporting a mixed database environment. This position will report to Database Administration Manager within the Data Services Infrastructure Group, and will require strong team interaction with Data Services staff/peers, other engineering and operations group members within the IT organization, as well as with application and business development teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide database administration and management with Linux and Windows platforms/environments/tools (including operational and monitoring features).
• Monitor the daily performance of production and development environments.
• Provide a support on any kind of Infrastructure changes affecting the database environments.
• Perform operational aspects of high availability (clustering and related, including replication) solutions, and database security related concepts and designs (SOX compliance), are essential.

REQUIREMENTS

MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE

• 2-4 years of experience with Linux/Unix
• Willingness to work in Database Operations Shift rotations in a 24×7 environment, and expected to handle day to day database operational as well as preventive measures responsibilities.
• 1-2 years as a DBA with major responsibilities in a large/challenging database environment.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE

• Hands on operational experience with SAP Sybase ASE 15.7 on UNIX and Linux, Oracle 11G on Linux, or MS SQL Server 2012.
• Prior experience in a real-time transaction processing (preferably financial brokerage/banking and/or ecommerce) industry is highly desirable.
• Shell scripting, Perl, Java, Python, C#, .NET a plus.
• 1-2 years basic administration skills in UNIX and Linux as relates to RDBMS are a plus.

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, TRAINING

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field highly desirable.
• DB related Certifications and Training or equivalent experience is a plus.

Job Type: Full-time

Shifts:

• Graveyard