Database Administrator

At Flex, we welcome people of all backgrounds. Our employees thrive here by living our values: we support each other as we strive to find a better way, we move fast with discipline and purpose, and we do the right thing always. Through a respectful, inclusive and collaborative culture, a career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference, invest in your career growth and join our purpose - to make great products that create value and improve people’s lives.

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a/an Database Administrator - IT located in Chennai.

What a typical day looks like:
• Responsible for the administration of computerized database;
• Administer and guarantee DB integrity and availability by following best practices;
• Backup, recovery, monitor and improve DB performance;
• Analyze and solve DB problems in a timely and accurate fashion, regional or global scope;
• 24x7 support rotation enabling the follow-the-sun schema along with other teams;
• Install SQL server environments & configure as per guidelines recommended;
• Resolve calls without having to dispatch to L3 and take escalation calls from L1 support;
• Knowledge of troubleshooting scripts and knowledge of server topologies / configurations;
• DB backup and backup configuration;
• DB restore from production to test and vice versa (Refresh), and across servers;
• Review the job executions, change schedule of a job & configure jobs as per guidelines;
• Analyze statistical data from DBs environments and provide periodical reports;
• Review available free space and capacity planning;
• Decision making to perform shirking & truncating files when necessary;
• Validate performance of new objects and release to production environment;
• Create users & grant, remove, change permissions to users on SQL server & its DBs;
• Control & supervise of ETL processes and SP in production;
• Manage, support and configure replication technologies (DB Replication, Log Shipping, etc);
• Run SQLRAP and implement SQL best practices.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:
• Minimum 5 - 8 years of experience as SQL data base administrator;
• English, problem solving and analytical skills;
• Knowledge as DBA on MSSQL Server, PostgreSQL and/or MYSQL.
• Skills that involve reviewing of application, system & SQL Server Logs;
• Previous experience solving incidents and tickets.

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:
• PTO
• Health Insurance

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Job Category IT
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