Microsoft SQL System DBA

Database Administration (DBA) professionals are primarily responsible for designing, developing, implementing and maintaining database systems to support business needs. They are typically involved in database creation and maintenance, database testing, problem resolution, and the management of database integration activities. DBA professionals provide DBA consulting and support to business and technology partners. Individuals are also involved in traditional activities such as performance monitoring/tuning, production database troubleshooting, backup and recovery, and supporting security administration for database access. DBA professionals are expected to act as liaisons to both internal and external clients. These individuals provide recommendations regarding upgrade paths based on business trends and user/workgroup processing requirements. DBA professionals facilitate the development of supporting knowledge architecture and standards, and work with operations staff to define policies and security frameworks to ensure precise and secure delivery of knowledge and information to appropriate constituencies. They also provide user support in problem resolution, database testing, change control, and database integration into the production environment. These individuals review SQL Server Farm's Monitoring and Implementation, Database Migrations, DB Creation per customer requests.

Individuals must have a solid understanding of physical modeling, database design principles, database administration methodologies and techniques, and system development lifecycle and system integration knowledge. They must understand the business processes to ensure that database architectures and data flows are meeting the business needs. DBA professionals must be familiar with all modeling techniques. Experience with the following technologies is a plus: MSCS Clusters, LiteSpeed and MOM 2005. If qualified and interested, please call 203/225-1700 to speak to a consultant representative.