Sr. SQL DBA

Title:Sr. SQL DBA
Location: Bala Cynwyd, PA
Length: contract- hire
Rate: DOE

A client of ours outside Philadelphia is looking to bring on a Sr. Level Database Administrator specializing in SQL Server (2000, 2005)
Support and maintain SQL Databases and ensure their performance, availability, and security.

Major Responsibilities:
- Ensure availability and performance of all SQL databases.
- Work with the team to ensure that the associated hardware resources allocated to the databases are adequate and to ensure high availability and optimum performance.
- Establish and maintain DBA-related Operational Handbook for SQL based systems.
- Customize DBA-Requirements for new SQL projects.
- Install, update, and patch (when necessary) SQL Database software including coordinating with OS Group the required Windows components.
- Review all changes on database including review of the relevant documentation.
- Implement solutions to monitor all aspects of the database from a central monitoring system.
- React and resolve all database related warning and alarms from database monitoring system.
- Provide database backup and recovery strategy and operations.
- Tune database parameters for optimal performance following the Change Management Process while maintaining *cloned* and replicated database systems for testing and quality assurance purposes.
- Proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime.
- Receive and react on *critical (security) patch* information sent by Microsoft.
- Manage storage and capacity planning from the object level to the database file level. Include a forecast of growth to allow for changes in storage parameters when necessary.
- Participate in database tuning - Add new indexes, drop indexes or change indexes based on performance analysis after scripts provided from or at least approved by the development DBA or vendor.
- Provide trend analysis to the service management team to enable them to make informed decisions regarding resource management.
- Escalate and manage problems to resolution through Microsoft Support, SQL Development Team and/or third parties as appropriate.

Minimum Education & Certifications Required:
- Must have Bachelor*s Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- SQL Certification, preferably MCDBA

Experience & Skills Required:
- 7+ years Proven SQL Database Administration experience.
- 5+ years Experience of managing multiple RDBMS on large systems
- Experience of working in a team that delivers a high availability service.
- Practical experience in monitoring and tuning to provide a high availability service.
- Experience of other database systems, preferably Oracle .
- Practical experience with Windows Operating Systems.

Human Capital Management, Inc. is a staffing firm focused on the most important part of the Information Technology industry-PEOPLE. We are dedicated to attracting the area's most talented IT professionals. At HCMI we use the term partnering when describing relationships with our consultants. That is because we invest the time to understand the motivating force behind each consultant, provide consultants with a strong understanding of our clients' projects and strive to match each consultant with a project which will satisfy the consultant's short and long term needs. Only by connecting the best consultants to the best projects is HCMI able to drive the New Economy. HCMI has been able to identify, attract and develop intimate relationships with the most exciting projects throughout the Mid Atlantic Region.

Please refer to job code 91875 when responding to this ad.

Category:	Information Technology
	> Database Management      > Other Information Technology
Location:	Bala Cynwyd, PA
County:	Montgomery County
ZIP Code:	19004
Pay Rate:	DOE
Job Terms:	contract-to-hire
Company:	Human Capital Management, Inc.
Phone:	610.341.0790
Fax:	610.341.0791