Senior Database Administrator / Data Engineer - SQL Server

About the position

When you join Verizon, you want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife. What you’ll be doing... Verizon Connect has an immediate need for an experienced Database Administrator based in the Atlanta Georgia region to join our Global Database Services team. The ideal associate will be a highly competent, results driven as well as a highly self-motivated individual. This DBA role requires a service oriented mentality, high sense of ownership of the problems and requests assigned, focus on managing and resolving issues in a prompt & efficient manor, establishing and maintaining communication with technology customers to keep them updated with status of their requests, initiating and performing changes on production systems and proactively escalating any issues that cannot be resolved within the established timeframes.

Responsibilities

• Owning, tracking and resolving database related incidents and requests.
• Fulfilling requests and resolving incidents within SLAs.
• Reviewing service-related reports (e.g. database backups, maintenance, monitoring) on a daily basis to ensure operational issues are identified and resolved promptly.
• Responding to database related alerts and escalations and working with database engineering to come up with strategic solutions to recurring problems.
• Enhancing automation for database platform provision process
• Enhancing database monitoring & alerting platforms to ensure proactive alerting is always achieved.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Four or more years of relevant Database administration experience in a large data environment
• Deep understanding of SQL Server database architecture and internal components with particular focus on :- Re-indexing (high transaction throughput OLTP platform) Statistics Partition maintenance (high transaction throughput OLTP platform) H/A implementations Backups, restores & Point-in-time recovery Security Monitoring & alerting
• Advanced knowledge of Database Administration on the SQL Server (2019 & 2022)
• Advanced knowledge of Troubleshooting and resolving database problems in a high transaction OLTP environment.
• Advanced knowledge of Database Performance Tuning & Optimization and Query cost management
• Advance knowledge of writing, debugging and tuning of T-SQL code
• Experience in Managing SQL Server in an AWS RDS environment.
• Significant operational and support experience with large data platforms
• Experience with scripting/automation (Powershell / Python / sparc preferred).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with other management & support activities with other relational database platforms (PostgreSQL, MySQL) in an AWS environment.
• Experience with ownership & management of ElasticSearch in AWS
• Experience with ownership & management of Redshift in AWS
• Experience in working as part of a geographically dispersed team
• Ability to learn new technologies and scripting languages
• Ability to work in a fast paced, high volume, agile environment.
• Ability to approach problems with a sense of ownership, enthusiasm and innovation

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• short and long term disability
• basic life insurance
• supplemental life insurance
• AD&D insurance
• identity theft protection
• pet insurance
• group home & auto insurance
• matched 401(k) savings plan
• up to 8 company paid holidays per year
• up to 6 personal days per year
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance
• tuition assistance
• premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances
• up to 15 days of vacation per year