Senior Database Administrator

• How you'll support our Mission: 

   

  As a member of the Platform Engineering team, you will collaborate with development teams to ensure our production databases function reliably with excellent performance.  You can expect to participate in capacity planning sessions, disaster recovery exercises and security audits to monitor access controls for our protected data assets. This is a “hands-on” position requiring solid technical skills, as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills. 

   

  The right candidate for this role is customer focused, thorough, and can work with and across multi-disciplinary teams.  You will excel at performing root cause analysis, documenting your findings, and driving issues to resolution with permanent solutions (no band-aids!).  As a steward of our production systems, you will regularly be asked to prescribe thoughtful solutions to administering our Azure resources so that our platform continues to scale in a clean and sustainable fashion.   

  What You’ll Be Doing – the day to day: 

  • Manage SQL Server databases (IaaS/PaaS) through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems. 
  • Configure, maintain and monitor database servers and processes, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security. 
  • Availability for critical/sev1 production issues to triage, analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
  • SQL code review/performance tuning and schema refinement. 
  • Refine and automate processes to drive continuous improvement. 
  • Perform routine maintenance, scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities. 
  • Share technical expertise and provide mentorship/cross-training to others.

  Who You Are - some of the essential things required to be successful in the role: 

  • 5+ years of experience as a DBA using Microsoft SQL Server. 
  • Strong knowledge of T-SQL for administration, user management and code review/performance tuning. 
  • Strong working knowledge of database high availability techniques. (SQL HA, Database Mirroring, Backups and Disaster recovery etc.)
  • Working knowledge of database products and capabilities, including data movement tools (e.g. SQL (IaaS/PaaS), Managed Instances, Data Factory, Cosmos etc.)

  Who You Are – it’s desirable if you have some of the following experience: 

  • Familiarity with other RDBMS technologies like MySQL. 
  • Microsoft Azure experience. 
  • Experience with scripting technologies (WMI, PowerShell). 
  • Experience with versioning database deployments and integration with application deployments.  
  • Experience working in Agile development environment.

  Benefits & Perks

   

  You will have fantastic benefits at ESO including but not limited to; life insurance, enhanced short and long term sick pay, income protection insurance, a generous pension contribution, private medical insurance including optical and dental, a health cash plan, an annual health and wellness allowance, enhanced paternity leave and pay, enhanced adoptive pay, enhanced maternity pay and more!

   

  Who are we? 

   

  ESO is a fast-paced, growing data, technology and research company passionate about improving community health and safety through the power of data. We pioneer innovative, user-friendly software to meet the changing needs of today’s EMS agencies, fire departments, and hospitals. We’re small enough to be nimble and fun, but big enough to be a great place to work. We serve thousands of customers out of our offices across the US, Canada and Northern Ireland. 

   

  Are you ready to Make a Difference?