Position Summary
This position is responsible for developing upon and supporting the SQL Server databases and ensuring their performance, availability and security.


Responsibilities
•    Responsible for ensuring availability and performance of the databases that support the system
•    Work to ensure that the associated hardware resources allocated to the databases and to ensure high resilience and performance tuning
•    To proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime
•    Responsible for troubleshooting and problem solving of SQL development
•    Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include rollout and upgrades
•    Responsible for implementation and release of database changes according to agreed timescales and costs


Professional Requirements
•    5+ yrs experience performance tuning T-SQL queries, indexes, disk I/O, memory and CPU
•    Experience with SQL Server Architecture and advanced SQL query techniques
•    C#/.NET experience preferred relating to work on the .NET backend interactions with the DB
•    Experience with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
•    Experience with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and DTS
•    In depth SQL Server Database Administration experience
•    Experience of managing multiple MS SQL 2000/2005/2008/2008 R2 RDBMS on large systems
•    Strong self-sufficiency and initiative working on Database projects
•    Practical experience in monitoring and tuning a database to provide a high availability service
•    Experience of Transactional SQL, and stored procedures
•    Practical experience in managing the internal and external MS SQL database security
•    Role is about 70-80% SQL Server Development and about 20%-30% operations work

Qualified candidates, please email your resumes to rtiwari@talentporte.com for immediate consideration.