Database Administrator

OVERVIEW

The TransPerfect TechOps team has been a vital part of the company’s success since its formation 10 years ago – delivering technology and services that have drastically simplified the lives of our clients and colleagues – from workflow improvements for colleagues, to core services that form the basis of the company’s GlobalLink platform, to creating scalable client interfaces that allow novice users to navigate complex ecosystems.

As a Database Administrator, you will work directly with senior developers team to design, test, plan, protect and implement our department’s databases.

DESCRIPTION
• Managing locking, process blocking and performance tuning of our databases
• Creating and maintaining a high availability and disaster-recovery-friendly architecture
• Managing, optimizing, testing and verifying the backup and restoration processes
• Creating and maintaining monitoring and metrics tooling and dashboards, to give both high-level and granular insight into database performance and operation
• Managing our infrastructure in a preventative manner, considering and avoiding potential future issues, mitigating damage from future incidents
• Handling support tickets when necessary, backing up your peers
• Develops and deploys new database objects and changes to existing database objects including tables, stored procedures, views, etc.
• Create complex functions, scripts, stored procedures and triggers to support application development
• Designs, develops and maintains a multitude of complex relational database reports using SSRS

REQUIRED SKILLS
• Advanced understanding of relational database architecture/infrastructure, specifically MSSQL
• Knowledge of SSMS, SSRS, support tooling
• Knowledge of T-SQL, Stored Procedures, and day-to-day DB functions
• Advanced knowledge of how to optimize MSSQL, support HA/DR, etc
• Strong knowledge of systems and software development lifecycles; application integration techniques; and relational database design
• Experience with Always on High Availability Groups is a plus
• Analyze, troubleshoot and break-down complex problems
• Choose appropriate tasks to work on relative to our current workload
• Understand and implement best-practices balanced with our team standards
• Clearly communicate ideas, thoughts and suggestions to manager and peers
• Participate, review and offer constructive criticism to peers’ changes and code
• Experience with cloud database storage technologies.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent