<p><strong>Senior Database Administrator - MSSQL</strong></p> <div> <h2><span><strong><span>Description</span></strong></span></h2> <p><strong>Roles and responsibilities</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Proactively involving in capacity planning and enhancing new and existing deployments to meet scalability, availability, security and performance requirements of the organization</li> <li>Preparing operational guidelines & implementation</li> <li>Work with development teams in sizing user stories, planning, designing database schema</li> <li>Implementation of database code and deployment</li> <li>Maintaining data structures & documentation</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE </strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Graduate in CS/IT or similar discipline</li> <li>Minimum of five (5) years of total experience.</li> <li>Minimum of 3 years of experience in administering non-relational database systems including Mongo DB or Cassandra.</li> <li>Software development using Java based technologies and tools.</li> <li>Extensive knowledge on Linux</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES </strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Very good understanding of OOP, enterprise application development and agile development principles</li> <li>Has experience in various stages of software development including development, performance-analysis, and deployment and troubleshooting.</li> <li>Very good understanding in JVM.</li> <li>Excellent knowledge in Linux and some experience in managing resources at OS level.</li> <li>Hands on experience in shell scripting using Python (or similar scripting language)</li> <li>Two years hands on experience in managing and configuring MongoDB or Cassandra databases</li> <li>Exposure in managing large databases , ability to configure shading and replications </li> <li>Understanding in database systems and knowledge on high availability features such as replication and clustering is preferred</li> <li>Is ready to learn multiple NOSQL technologies.</li> <li>Is willing to work as a production DBA and support development efforts.</li> <li>Very strong communication skills.</li> <li>Is a self-learner</li> <li>Good team player</li> </ul> <p> </p> </div> <div> <p><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">Please click the link to apply - </span>https://pearson.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=1600653</span></span></p> </div>