Philips Software Technologist - Database Administrator 

India, Karnataka 

946593581

Software Technologist - Database Administrator

Database Management:

• Administer AWS RDS (Relational Database Service), Aurora, and other AWS database services, maintenance of 24x7 corporate database environment.

• Monitoring of SQL Agent jobs and remediates failures when they occur.

• Perform regular database maintenance tasks, including backups, patching, and upgrades. Support production and non-production deployments of database schema changes, code deployments, and stored procedures.

• Create automated scripted solutions to perform various administration and monitoring tasks.

• Maintain legacy SQL on-prem environments

Data Security, Availability and Compliance:

• Implement and manage database security policies and procedures.

• Ensure compliance with data protection regulations and company policies.

• Configure and manage encryption, access controls, and auditing.

• Design, implement and support disaster recovery solutions

• Ensure HA configurations are in alignment with business continuity requirements and service level agreements (SLAs).

• Build and enforce database change management, security standards and best practices across various database environments and ensure processes are adhered to and documented.

Troubleshooting and Support:

• Diagnose and resolve database issues and performance problems.

• Provide support for database-related incidents and service requests.

• Collaborate with the DevOps team to troubleshoot and resolve application-related issues. Monitor and optimize database performance and resource utilization.

Database Design and Optimization:

• Assist in designing and optimizing database schemas, indexes, and queries.

• Implement and manage database replication, clustering, and failover strategies.

• Evaluate and recommend improvements to database architecture and technologies.

• Perform pro-active capacity planning, recommend and implement solutions to provide scalability.

• Participation in development projects ranging from oversite on DB related changes to design discussions.

Qualifications & Skills :

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or related discipline with 6+ years of work experience

• 3+ years of experience in database administration, with at least 2 years focused on AWS database services .

• Relevant AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Database – Specialty) are highly desirable.

• Relevant AWS Certifications ( eg : AWS Cloud Practitioner' and/or 'SysOps Administrator and/or AWS Certified Data Engineer)

• Proficiency in AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and other AWS database services and familiarity with the shared responsibility model.

• Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with database management systems (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle).

• Expert knowledge installing, configuring and maintaining Microsoft SQL Server DBA for 2008 R2,2012, 2016,2019 and above , Experience migrating old SQL Server environments to latest version

• Knowledge of VMware and SQL within a VM environment

• Expert skills with T-SQL query development, optimization, and stored procedures

• Strong experience with SQL Server replication (transactional and merge) setup, maintenance and trouble shooting

• Familiarity with database performance monitoring solutions/tools such as [e.g., SQL Sentry, Datadog, etc.].

• Business Intelligence tools deployment/ data warehousing

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Strong commitment to meeting customer needs , Good "team player", strong interpersonal skills

• "Self starter", highly motivated , Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

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