Sr SQL Server DBA
| Company | Sun Life |
|---|---|
| Location | Toronto, ON, Canada, North York, ON, Canada, Kitchener, ON, Canada |
| Salary | $84000 – $138000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- 5+ years of SQL Server database experience supporting both infrastructure and development teams.
- 3+ years of administrative support of SQL Server versions including: Database Engine, Integration Services (SSIS), Analysis Services (SSAS) and Reporting Services (SSRS)
- 3+ years of experience and support with AWS Cloud technologies and database workload
- Deep SQL Server knowledge that includes a thorough understanding of SQL internals, system tables, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and SQL tuning
- Have experience managing employees
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and direction for SQL Server. Designing new patterns of deployment, evaluating new tools to improve DMS’ service to their clients
- Define and document best practices for the global deployments of SQL Server
- Gain knowledge of various emerging technologies, cloud technologies, DevOps tools and processes, and vendor applications
- First point of contact for application architects or cloud teams for various engineering project initiatives requiring non-standard deployment patterns
- Constantly research better ways of implementing SQL Server and related technologies to improve stability, reduce cost, and improve security
Preferred Qualifications
- Insatiable desire to learn new technologies or platforms
- Possess exceptional creativity on how to use different technologies or patterns to address business challenges
- Be able to express difficult technical concepts to a variety of audiences (executive, technical and business) both written and verbally
- Organize and monitor personal workload and escalate to manager when issues arise
- A desire to move into a technical people management role