Database Administrator - Bengaluru, India - StoneX Group

StoneX Group

Verified Company

Bengaluru, India

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

beBee Recuiter

Description

Overview:

A Database Administrator is a highly motivated individual responsible for implementing enhancements to all aspects of the current database architecture.

Similarly, they will need to ensure that all database systems are high performing and highly available at all

Responsibilities:

On call cover as a part of a rotation with other members of the team
Create, implement, and maintain SQL DB Health Checks/Monitoring, and have a demonstrated ability to automate SQL health reporting/event notification, and corrective actions.
Developing 'best practice' standards within the DBA team and working with local and remote development teams to ensure these standards are adhered to
Designing and building high performance Always On Solutions
When performance issues arise, determine the most effective way to increase performance including scaling up or out, server configuration changes, index/query changes, etc.
Perform all database management responsibilities in Microsoft Azure for production and nonproduction workloads.
Adhere to and proactively enhance the firm's compliance with applicable laws, regulations and codes of conduct in all jurisdictions in which the Firm conducts business and which have an impact on its business
Maintain a high level of conduct, ethical standards and values
Work to identify risks and enhance control across the business
Report control weaknesses, illegal, suspicious or unusual activity
Maintain an appropriate level of competence through ongoing training, making requests for updates or development as required
Ensuring the clients are treated fairly by knowing the customer and giving suitable advice where appropriate, providing an appropriate level of service, communicating clearly and fairly and ensuring complaints are reported

Qualifications:

Job Requirements:

A minimum of 2 years administering SQL Server
Experience of SQL2016 and above
Maintaining high availability of all databases using AGs and SQL Clustering
Database design, build, tuning and monitoring in a high transactional organization
Experience working in a 24/7/365 operation.
Strong educational background with a degree preferably in Computer Science or Information Systems.
Ability to work under pressure to solve production issues
Highly proficient in T-SQL, writing complex stored procedures

Nice to have

Cloud exposure (Azure, Databricks, Datafactory), certification would be beneficial
Experience of administering Open Source Databases such as MongoDB, Postgres and MariaDB or a willingness to learn these DB technologies
Experience of working within Financial Services organization
Experience of working in an Agile/SCRUM environment
Microsoft SQL Server MCITP/MCA level certification
Knowledge and experience of current 3rd party SQL Server tools (eg Solarwinds, Redgate)
Coding skills (PowerShell, C#, Python) to automate tasks and interact with APIs
Automation and Orchestration tools (Jenkines, Ansible, GIT, TeamCity, Azure Devops)
Data Virtualisation and Protection Tooling experience, preferably Delphix & Delphix Masking