SQL Database Expert

Are you skilled SQL profesional ? Do you want utilize your skills in large Enterprise environment at company, that supports the employees on the job but also beyond ? Our Client (IT outsourcourcing company from Switzerland) is a people company, their capital are their employees. The fluctuation in company is extremely low because company do care about our employees.

For this company I am hiring candidates for SQL Database Expert position based in Praha, Czech Republic. If you are interested in this job opportunity feel free to contact me.

About position:
As part of the technical service for Database Hosting Services, this role is responsible for

Senior DBA support in the areas:

• Database engineering, architecture, tools, & processes for operations, projects and service

improvement

• Resolving critical incidents, support either the ext. service provider or taking over escalated

incidents

• Build new solutions (Prototypes, Template, Concept, ..)

• Lead technical Design in Changes and Projects

Service Innovation

• Identify Demand/CSI, trends, (IT) best-practices

• (Joint) Solution Evaluation, Approval and support of Change/Project

As an Engineer, the responsibilities require to

• Execute standard Service Requests, mainly in the area of

• SQL System/DB Enhancements

• System Maintenance/Upgrade/Patch Management

• Back/Restore of DBs

• Disaster Recovery & High-Availability Management

• Execute Change Request to correct or enhance MS SQL systems or solutions

• Operational support in exceptional situations (escalated or major Incident)

• Manage activities to resolve an escalated or major Incident

• Support the resolution of Incidents with knowledge or active incident resolution

• Monitoring & Performance Tuning of SQL Server/Databases

• Administration and Security Management of SQL databases

• Enforce architectural governance, deployment standards and best practices for SQL Server

databases (including installation, patching and high availability configurations)

• Knowledge of MS SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 (clustered and non-clustered)

Responsibilities:

• Designing infrastructure components and systems required to provide a service.

• Ensures a detailed specification of technologies and products as a basis for their

procurement and customization.

• Works with users, sponsors, Application Management and all other stakeholders to

determine their evolving needs.

• Works with Application Management and other areas in Technical Management to

determine the highest level of system requirements required to meet the requirements

within budget and technology constraints.

• Defines and maintains knowledge about how systems are related and ensuring that

dependencies are understood and managed accordingly.

• Performs cost-benefit analyses to determine the most appropriate means to meet the

stated requirements.

• Develops operational models that will ensure optimal use of resources and the appropriate

level of performance.

• Ensures that the infrastructure is configured to be effectively managed given the

organization's technology architecture, available skills and tools.

• Ensures the consistent and reliable performance of the infrastructure to deliver the required

level of service to the business.

• Defines all tasks required to manage the infrastructure and ensuring that these tasks are

performed appropriately.

• Inputs into the design of configuration data required to manage and track the application

effectively.
• Reviews incident data to analyse assigned problems.

• Analyses problems for correct prioritization and classification.

• Investigates assigned problems through to resolution or root cause.

• Coordinates the actions of others as necessary to assist with the analysis and resolution

actions for problems and known errors.

• Monitors progress on the resolution of known errors and advising incident management

staff on the best available workaround for incidents.

• Updates the known error database (KEDB) with new or updates known errors and

workarounds.
• Helps to design the release package, during the service design stage of the service

lifecycle, in conjunction with personnel from other teams and functions.

• Establishes the final release configuration, including knowledge, information, hardware,

software and infrastructure.

• Builds the release.

• Tests the release prior to independent testing.

• Establishes and reports outstanding known errors and workarounds.

• Provides input to support change authorization for check-in of the release to the definitive

media library (DML).

Benefits (direct):

• Fair salaries (benchmark)

• Regular salary review

• 25 days of holiday instead of the 20 days by law

• Additional holidays related to years working for D-ploy, 1 additional day per 2 years

• Meal vouchers (100,-CZK, 55% paid by D-ploy)

• Education and development (e.g. 70% is ITIL V3 Foundation certified in 2014, language courses)

• Corporate laptop and mobile phone

• Flextime - Flexible working times (if job and customer allows)

• Home Office (if job and customer allows)

• Fitness (2x/week)

• Fishing for Friends program (candidates)

Benefits (indirect)

• Dedicated and independent people management

• 90% permanent contracts

• Modern office at a nice location in Prague

• Involving employees in company decisions (voluntarily workers council)

• Regular employee events

• Newsletter and info events

Information technology, computer programming, web portals

Our Client (IT outsourcourcing company from Switzerland) is a people company, their capital are their employees. The fluctuation in company is extremely low because company do care about our employees.